What FORUMS will and will not do

FORUMS is dedicated to the legal sharing of free and open resources that support music teaching and learning. Others’ existing work will not be duplicated or appropriated. FORUMS users are expected to credit their sources. Contributors will be acknowledged. Contributors are expected to follow usage rights designations of material submitted.

FORUMS will:

Provide a means and a space to develop community for anyone interested in teaching music in general studies and teaching music to adult learners. Specifically, FORUMS will:

• provide a means to discuss and share ideas for teaching music

• provide a means to share informal and incomplete materials in development for others’ use or for comments and suggestions

• provide a means to share complete materials for others to use and adapt

• supplement materials used to teach music in general studies

• provide materials and ideas for teaching undergraduates, adult learners, and teaching music in general studies

• develop community through collaboration, bringing together music educators, music performers, music museum curators, musicologists, music librarians, and others.

FORUMS will not:

• Link to, copy, duplicate, adapt copyrighted materials, or otherwise circumvent materials’ usage rights

• Copy or duplicate databases, lists or materials created by music librarians or museum curators for use only in their host institutions, however, open source lists compiled by librarians and museum curators may be linked.

• Catalog museum and library holdings

• Promote commercial interests

• Link to unauthorized YouTube videos. Videos listed as permitted under creative commons licensing or posted by or with the permission of the content creator/copyright owner (such as a channel created by a performance organization or the content creator) are allowed.