ekoostik hookah Taping Policy

ekoostik hookah and our managing organizations have long encouraged the purely noncommercial exchange of music taped at our concerts and those of our individual members.

That new methods of distribution have arisen - digital audio files being traded over the internet, web sites featuring mp3, shn, flac, BT and other audio formats freely available for download - does not change our policy in this regard.

Our stipulations regarding digital distribution are merely extensions of those long-standing principles and they are as follows:

• No commercial gain may be sought by websites offering digital files of our music, whether through advertising, exploiting databases compiled from their traffic, or any other means.
• All participants in such digital exchange acknowledge and respect the copyrights of the performers, writers and publishers of the music.
• This notice should be clearly posted on all sites engaged in this activity.
• We reserve the ability to withdraw our sanction of noncommercial digital music should circumstances arise that compromise our ability to protect and steward the integrity of our work.

Generally speaking, ekoostik hookah allows NON-COMMERCIAL audiotaping from the audience (soundboard patches are not allowed), videotaping and photography (no flash please) at all shows. Some venues may have a policy that overrides this.

The trading of copyrighted material, including all officially released cds, is not allowed.