Listen to, and enjoy, our contents while observing the following:

Do not attempt to copy this site: it will not work and your class C IP may be denied all future access. This site is copyrighted and all media files are protected.

The media files can only be accessed

1. within the limits indicated
2. from this site: Do not link (deep-link) to the media files on our servers as we change the paths (location) of our files on a daily basis. (Link to our site instead)

You are welcome to copy some files, but follow the instructions given below.

1. The copyrights of the Archives as a whole. This belongs to Classical Archives, LLC (CALLC)
2. The copyrights of the performances. These belong to their respective performer(s) or producer(s)
3. The copyrights of the media files. These belong to their individual contributor or to CALLC when encoded here
4. The copyrights (if any) of the work (the score or composition) performed in the media file. These belong to the composer, his/her publisher, estate, or other appropriate copyright holder. As a rule, the compositions represented in the CMA are now in the public domain (composed before 1923) or the contributor of a performance of a non-public domain composition must have received the express permission to make the media file from the appropriate copyright holder. Otherwise the media file is not allowed in the CMA. (By submitting a media file to the CMA, each contributor undertakes that the composition is either in the public domain (composed before 1923) or that he or she has received the express permission for its copyright holder to perform the work and submit it to the CMA.)

• Free users: 5 files/day⁽¹⁾
• Individual Subscribers: 1,000 files/month and 100/day⁽²⁾
• Schools/Libraries: 1,000 files/month within the approved IP-range, and 500/month outside the range. Both are subject to 100/day/pc⁽²⁾

⁽¹⁾Unprotected files (WMA streams, MIDI files, and Free audio files)

⁽²⁾Subscribers may access (download, stream, listen to) all files, unprotected files (MIDI files and WMA streams) and protected files (HiFi MP3, ZIP files, and One-Click Tickets^SM)

1. put an incredible strain on web servers and often cause them to crash!
2. eat up enormous amounts of bandwidth
3. stop other visitors from accessing the site
4. can blatantly violate copyrights
5. are not allowed by the CMA unless they are from well-behaved and recognized search engines

YOU CANNOT USE OUR FILES IN ANY WEB PAGE, EMAIL, OR OTHER ARCHIVES. See below for that.

These files are licensed for your own non-commercial and personal use only. You can store files from the CMA on your PC and make one copy for your own non-commercial and personal use only. All users are limited by their respective daily and/or monthly limits of accesses.

Media files that are STREAMED ARE NOT MEANT TO, AND SHOULD NOT, BE DOWNLOADED (COPIED) TO YOUR PC, only listened to at the time of the visit. TO ATTEMPT TO SAVE OR COPY A STREAMED MEDIA FILE FROM THE CMA IS AN INFRINGEMENT OF THE CALLC COPYRIGHT.

TO SAVE A DOWNLOADABLE (NON-STREAMED) FILE TO YOUR COMPUTER:

Right-Click on the link in the Archives

Click on Save As... in the submenu

Indicate where you want to save the file on your computer.

Click here for more details

The Archives also offer Zip Collections to subscribers for download. These zipped files contain the MIDI files (only) that are below the Zip Collection button:

INSTEAD, YOU MAY COPY UP TO 10 (NON-STREAMED) MEDIA FILES TO YOUR WEB SITE'S SERVER BUT YOU MUST ASK FOR PERMISSION from each file contributor (who may or may not provide it.) If you do receive permission, you must COPY THE FILE(s) TO YOUR SERVER and provide the notice given below. Note that I am happy to give you permission, right here and now, to copy my own files. These are marked with (*). Remember to use the notice shown below.

Media files that are STREAMED ARE NOT MEANT TO, AND SHOULD NOT, BE DOWNLOADED (COPIED) TO YOUR PC, only listened to at the time of the visit. TO ATTEMPT TO SAVE OR COPY A STREAMED MEDIA FILE FROM THE CMA IS AN INFRINGEMENT OF THE CALLC COPYRIGHT.

You can, of course, provide a link to the Classical Archives itself (in fact, that's encouraged and we provide some free graphics for that.) But linking to our media files in our servers isn't cool. Note that calls from other referers (your web page URL, as opposed to mine) asking for media files are redirected by our script to the CMA home page - so you will lose your visitor.

If you want to use one of our files (using either one of the HREF, BGSOUND or EMBED tags), you MUST instead copy that file to YOUR server after obtaining permission. You have the permission to copy my own files. These are marked with (*). Remember to use the notice given below. But to copy another file, you must contact its contributor whose email address is hopefully in this page. (If it's not there or the address bounces, I'm afraid we don't have it.)

REQUIRED NOTICE

If you receive permission from the contributor and copy CMA files to your site (remember the limit is 10 files - unless they are my own), the following notice is required in your page:

Media file(s) from the Classical Archives - by permission.

If you use my own files, please use the following: File © Pierre R. Schwob - by permission. Original from the Classical Archives

This is produced (without the box around it, which isn't required) by the following HTML code: <B>Media file(s) from the <A HREF="http://www.classicalarchives.com/">Classical Archives</A> - by permission.</B> For my files, use: <B>File &copy; Pierre R. Schwob - by permission. Original from the <A HREF="http://www.classicalarchives.com/">Classical Archives</A></B>

TO SAVE A FILE TO YOUR COMPUTER:

Read the copyright page first!

Right-Click on the link in the Archives

Click on Save As... in the submenu

Indicate where you want to save the file on your computer.

WebTV Users:

• Do not link to the Classical Archives files on our servers (deep-linking). Instead use the Transloader to move up to 10 non-streamed media files to your own website accounts (after getting the permission from the appropriate contributor), so WebTV users do not use our bandwidth
• You may also like to visit: http://developer.webtv.net

If you need to request the permission from another contributor, see the List of Contributors and their email addresses. Note that if a contributor is not in that list, I do not have his or her contact details. In addition you may not contact our contributors en masse. Their email addresses are provided only for requesting permissions. You must contact each contributor separately (not through spamming) and contact no more than 5 contributors per month.

CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES COPYRIGHT © 1994-2008 CLASSICAL ARCHIVES, LLC ("CALLC"). ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. CALLC CLAIMS COPYRIGHTS ON THE ARCHIVES AS A WHOLE AND ON THE MEDIA FILES ENCODED BY CALLC AND ON THE INDIVIDUAL FILES, GRAPHICS AND PROGRAMS MADE BY PIERRE R. SCHWOB OR OTHER STAFF OF CALLC. CALLC DOESN'T CLAIM COPYRIGHTS ON THE OTHER INDIVIDUAL FILES (THESE ARE OWNED BY THEIR RESPECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS OR ARTISTS WHOSE INDIVIDUAL PERMISSION YOU MUST SEEK AS SHOWN ABOVE.) YOU MAY NOT COPY, DUPLICATE, OR USE ANY OF THE MUSICAL, GRAPHICAL, ORGANIZATIONAL, DESCRIPTIVE CONTENTS OR EXECUTABLE PROGRAMS OR THEIR ACCESS FEATURES, OR OTHER MATERIAL FROM THE CLASSICAL ARCHIVES OTHER THAN AS PROVIDED FOR ABOVE WITHOUT HAVING FIRST OBTAINED EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM CALLC. YOU MAY MAKE ONE COPY OF DOWNLOADED FILES FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL USE ONLY AND ONLY WITHIN THE LIMITS INDICATED ABOVE. YOU MAY NOT COPY, DUPLICATE OR REPRODUCE ANY CONTENTS OF THE CLASSICAL ARCHIVES FOR ANY PURPOSE WHATSOEVER EXCEPT AS PROVIDED FOR ABOVE. IN NO EVENT SHALL YOU USE ANY OF THE MATERIAL INCLUDED IN THESE ARCHIVES FOR COMMERCIAL USE WITHOUT HAVING FIRST RECEIVED EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM CALLC OR FROM ANY PARTICULAR FILE CONTRIBUTOR OR ARTIST FOR THE COMMERCIAL USE OF THAT PARTICULAR FILE (WHO MAY, OR MAY NOT, PROVIDE IT.) CLASSICAL ARCHIVES; CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES; THE UNICORN LOGO; AND "MUSIC FOR THE REST OF US" ARE TRADEMARKS OF CLASSICAL ARCHIVES, LLC THE CLASSICAL ARCHIVES SUPPORTS THE RIGHTS OF COMPOSERS, PERFORMERS, MUSIC PUBLISHERS, RECORD COMPANIES AND OTHER RIGHTS HOLDERS. THE CLASSICAL ARCHIVES FEATURES PUBLIC DOMAIN MUSIC AND PERFORMANCES. WHERE A RECORDED WORK OR PERFORMANCE IS NOT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, THE CLASSICAL ARCHIVES OBTAINS CONSENT FROM THE APPROPRIATE INDIVIDUALS OR ORGANIZATIONS TO INCLUDE THE MUSIC ON THE WEBSITE. IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION INDICATING THAT RIGHTS TO INCLUDE A PERFORMANCE ON THE WEBSITE MAY BE IN QUESTION, PLEASE NOTIFY THE CLASSICAL ARCHIVES IMMEDIATELY SO THAT WE CAN PROMPTLY INVESTIGATE AND TAKE NECESSARY ACTION.

Under United States Copyright Law, 17 U.S.C. § 106, the owner of a Copyrighted work has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize, any of the following:

reproduce the copyrighted work;

prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;

distribute copies of the copyrighted work to the public;

perform the copyrighted work in public;

display the copyrighted work in public; and

perform a copyrighted sound work in public by means of a digital audio transmission.

Further, certain acts of infringement may subject the infringer to criminal penalties.

See THIS CHART for when works pass into the Public Domain in the U.S. UNLESS SPECIFICALLY AUTHORIZED BY THE COPYRIGHT OWNER, DO NOT SUBMIT A WORK COMPOSED AFTER 1922.