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Internet Underground Music Archive
Submission Information, file version 1.9, May 25, 1994

Contact Information

Electronic Mail
info@iuma.com
Analog Mail
IUMA
903 Pacific Avenue, Suite #300
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Voice Mail, FAX
(408) 426-4862, (408) I-AM-IUMA

Thanks for your interest in the Internet Underground Music Archive.

Since November 1993, the Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) has provided music distribution on the Internet. With the Internet experiencing tremendous growth (20 million current users and hundreds of thousands users added each month according to Time magazine) we expect the Internet Underground Music Archive to be accessible to the majority of people with computers by the late 1990s.

Our goal is to maintain a publicly accessible, open and fast Internet site that archives the music, artwork and text of any musician, group or band that wishes their music to be internationally and freely distributed.

Currently, we have over 75 bands and songs on-line, have logged over 50,000 downloads of full songs, song excerpts, band photos, cover art and band biographies from our site to more than 20 countries. One band on IUMA, Ugly Mugs, based in Santa Cruz, California has found initially receiving fan mail from Turkey and later being asked to gig in Montana. (Ugly Mugs unfortunately couldn�t make the gig.

The features of IUMA go well beyond the world-wide distribution. IUMA is implemented on the open and scaleable graphic user interface (GUI) of the World Wide Web and is compatible with Windows PCs, Apple Macintoshes and UNIX/Xwindows computers. Through the visual interface, users choose artists and songs as they do in record stores, browsing by band, artist or song title and additionally by release date, artists� location, music genre and record label. Bands are encouraged to ask for patronage and offer demo tapes for sale directly to listeners while listeners in turn can post public comments and reviews of bands� songs or choose to email the band personally. Bands can also choose to receive monthly statistics summarizing the number of downloads (plays) of their full songs, song excerpts, photographs and biographical text. Currently under development is the ability to allow users to safely patronize musicians and even buy demos over the net with their credit cards.

How to find IUMA on the Internet

World Wide Web
http://sunsite.unc.edu/index.html
Gopher
Select 5. Worlds of SunSITE, 3. Browse all SunSite Archives, 10. electronic-publications, 2. IUMA
FTP
Connect to sunsite.unc.edu and move to /pub/electronic-publications/IUMA
Mailing List
Send email to majordomo@iuma.com with the words �subscribe iuma-news� in the body of the message.

Legal Issues

To participate in IUMA, a band or artists� music must obey thes eessential IUMA rules.

Original - cover songs are not legal even though no money is involved. Feh, we don't like it, but we will abide. A recent law decision we heard about did however rule that parodies are "fair use" of a song. So change some lyrics and parody if you wish, but don't cover.

Copyrighted - this protects the artist making covers of the song illegal. We have information about copyrighting on the IUMA site. Briefly, when you create a song it's automagically copyrighted but you'll want to register it nevertheless so you can sue for big money. You'll need Form PA, Package 105 to register your sheet or lyrics and Form SR, Package 121 for you sound recording from the U.S. Copyright Office.

Freely Distributable - that means anyone can freely copy it, and freely copy it for anyone they like. Oftentimes software authors allow their 'ware' to be distributed this way but demand/suggest/plead that you mail them a check (usually far below what an equivalent commercial product would cost). The concept is coined "Shareware". You may, in your textfile, demand that after one week of playing that a listener must either play your recording at the highest possible volume or send a check/postcard/picture-of-them-as-a- baby to you. They may choose to ignore your feeble demand. Commercial music is not "freely distributable" because it "belongs" to a label or publisher.

The Official License

We don't enjoy this, but our lawyers told us that we need your formal permission, indeed a "license", to use your recordings on IUMA. So when you send your song please enclose a signed copy of this section or we can't add it to our site. The truth is IUMA is pushing the limits of what "the law" knows how to handle and, frankly, we're not trying to provide a bludgeoned martyr for pedantic lawyers but a cool service to musicians and the Net.

You'll find the license at the end of this packet.

What to Submit to IUMA

Specifications and Maximums followed by Suggestions:

Up to three songs, up to 5 minutes long each.
Choose songs recorded using the highest possible fidelity. We will accept DATs, CD, cassettes and vinyl. Our tape deck has settings for normal bias, high bias, metal cassettes and DNR B and C.
Up to 5 lib, 8� by 11 inches in size each. Color or black & white.
Photographs, artwork, "cybersleeve," finger paintings, what have you with high contrast for best scanning results. Black and white results in smaller file sizes which is good for the Net. Any text other than artistic text belongs in the textfile, not above nor below the image.

If you wish, you may also send a PC or Macintosh disk with the lib in the JPEG or Compuserve GIF format. Specify PC or Mac on the disk itself.
Up to 5 sides of text, 8� by 11 inch in size each.
Tell your potential audience everything they should know about you -- perhaps your musical style, your influences, how long the band has been playing together, your favorite bird call, the song's lyrics, et al.

Don�t forget to list of names of the musicians and what they played

Important

This would be the right place to include an address for mailing lists/fan clubs/groupies, advertise for a full demo tape/CD or plead for patronage.

Again, you may send a PC or Macintosh disk with text in Plain Text or Microsoft Word format if you wish to save us the trouble of typing it up. If you send a handwritten note, please write legibly.
Brief descriptions of the band and each of the songs put on IUMA.
Similar to the textfile above, but for browsing Netizens. Focus on the what�s being described. Here's an example by the group Deth Specla,
Deth Specula is a five-man, guitar-oriented, neo-retro band from Santa Cruz and plays both originals and covers. To quote Thomas Jefferson, '... they rule ....'
See? Brief, descriptive and, uh, creative. Again, one for the band and one for each of the songs on IUMA.
Essential and personal information for IUMA
Please include phone numbers, times we can reach you, and a single mailing address. If you have an email address, fax number, etc. include them too.

Indicate (at least vaguely) what genre your might be classified by. It's not something artists typically want to do, but you do want your audience to find you. Feel free to be explicitly unusual, accurate or common. If we don't have genre close to your sound, we'll make a new genre category.

Is the recording mono or stereo? Any special recording instructions? Use Dolby Noise Reduction B or C maybe?�
There are several pricing tiers, including a free level. Keep in mind that we give highest priority to those who donate.
IUMA is run by people dedicated to the world-wide distribution of otherwise obscure bands and artists. Donations pay for not only the digitizing, compressing, scanning and typing, but also for the hardware, software, maintenance and management of IUMA as a whole. You can safely assume that we will spend about an hour to digitize, process, and archive your song, artwork and textfile.

Tier 1: Free to donations under US$50

Limit yourself to one song (under five minutes), one picture and two pages of text which will stay on-line for six months. We�re already back- logged though so you ought to think about actually paying for what you get if you can afford it.

Tier 2: donations of US$50 to US$75

Same as above but add up to four more pictures placed anywhere in up to five page of text on-line for one year. The real bonus at this tier is you may choose receive monthly individual statistics sent to your email address or on fancy IUMA letterhead stationary to your residence. Great for showing off to record companies.

Tier 3: donations of US$75 to US$125

Everything at the lower tiers plus the priveledge of additional songs up to a total of three songs (up to five minutes each). Each song on-line after the first is US$25 over the inital US$75. As new services are developed by IUMA such as direct patronage by credit card those at this level may participate in the testing phases. Very cool, we think.

What a Netizen sees of your Band

This is an actual IUMA artist's entry in the By Artist inde.

[Image]Scott Brookman

Richmond, Virginia, USA

"When I Die You Can't Have My Organs" is a very funny song about a character's defiant refusal to donate his organs; they're his, after all, and he's keeping them. The song, according to Brookman, who has serious doubts about community spirit, is among the best sounding on his latest cassette, despite a speedy recording session.

When a browsing Internaut clicks on the small picture or band�s name, the full textfile and lib are displayed, as well as the play buttons. Clicking on the play button will transfer the song to the users local computer for immediate playing or saving for later playing. This is only one of many indexes that each band appears in.

For answers to commonly asked questions about IUMA, please refer to the IUMA Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) available by email, fax or paper cut mail. Call (408) I- AM-IUMA for automagic service.

As of April 1994 we have begun offering complete IUMA statistical information and Internet consulting for independent record labels, recording companies and other businesses, to name only a few commercial services. Please contact us if you represent a record label or have specific needs. We have information prepared just for you.

We look forward hearing your music on the Net.

Sincerely,

Robert Lord, Jeff Patterson
Co-Czars
Internet Underground Music Archive

IUMA, 903 Pacific Ave, Suite #300, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, (408) 426-4862

IUMA License

"IUMA, it's sucessors, assigns and licensees are granted the irrevocable right and license in perpetuity (meaning "forever") to reproduce, exhibit, publicly perform, broadcast and transmit by any and all means and media now known and later becoming known with the exception of standard CD-audio, audio cassette, and other audio formats as opposed to computer data formats: (1) the sound recording(s) which contain the musical composition(s) entitled

Song Name(s): ________________________________________________________.

(2) the recorded performances on those recordings, (3) those named musical compositions, and (4) our names, likenesses, photographs, biographical materials and all other graphic and/or textual material provided by us to IUMA. these rights are granted to IUMA for no cost, the consideration being the promotional value to us of IUMA's distribution and dissemination of those licensed materials. We warrant and represent that the sound recordings contain only our original performances, that no "sampled" material is contained thereon and that the musical compositions were written solely by us in their entirety. We shall at all times own the copyrights in and to the sound recordings, musical compositionsand materials provided by us to IUMA. IUMA shall identify us as the copyright owner in all instances."

Signature: ____________________________ Date: ____________________