Many Higher Education institutions acting as ISPs have seen an increase in the number of DMCA complaints in the last few months. The DMCA, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, is designed to adjust copyright law to the realities of the digital age.

A DMCA notice typically comes from a copyright holder, or their representatives, to Penn’s Information Security office alleging that a computer, usually identified by the IP address, is hosting and making available material that the user of the computer does not own the copyright to. The notice is a request to remove the copyrighted material and stop making the material available to others. The University passes that notice on to the owner of the computer. These notices are commonly called “take down” notices.

In addition to these notices some copyright holders have pursued legal action against those whom they think are making their material available online. Lawsuits and subpoenas have, and are, being used against computer owners and users.

In an effort to help stem the tide of take down notices we are offering this list of freely available content.

Some of the items on this list are no longer covered by copyright but we recommend that you do not re-distribute them without due investigation. The content found in these links is for personal use only.

Sources for music, television and audio that are FREE!!

Free music:

http://music.aol.com/songs/newsongs

http://freeplaymusic.com/

http://www.furthurnet.org/index.php

http://www.archive.org/index.php

http://www.allaboutjazz.com

Free TV show listings:

http://www.tvsquad.com/

Free iTunes content:

http://www.itsfreedownloads.com/

iTunes:

http://www.apple.com/itunes/

Free audio books:

http://librivox.org/

Free radio:

• -Buy A Computer
• -Download Music and videos
• -Ruckus at Penn
• -Resources for Success
• -Staff