We believe that this online archive will be useful to copyright academics, attorneys practicing in this area, and to musicians seeking insight into an entertaining, yet at times esoteric, topic. It will offer new means of accessing and analyzing information that pertains to an area of law that now begs inquiry into the issue of how changes in the creation, content, dissemination and consumption of popular music in America in the 20th and 21st Centuries should inform music copyright infringement judges and litigants today.