Zappafan.net is an unofficial online community dedicated to the music of Frank Zappa, created and operated by fans. This site is intended for educational and noncommercial purposes, to provide a place for musicians and Zappa tribute bands to submit their original music / music covers for reviews, and allows anyone from anywhere on the globe to collaborate on musical projects.

MP3/MIDI files that are used on this site are believed to be artists' renditions of said songs and not original compositions, except where noted. All renditions are entirely a matter of the creator's interpretation. As a result, while some renditions remain faithful to the original songs, others take a whole new turn and end up in completely different places - some are pretty good, some are really awful. For that very reason, all of the visitors to this site are strongly encouraged to listen to the original songs first.

I am not a lawyer, so I guess what we are doing is not criminal. I do not think this site could cause any direct, indirect or consequential damages or any kind of intellectual, pecuniary or non-pecuniary loss to anyone. We do not intend to infringe copyrights, trademarks or other intellectual property rights of anyone. But we demand the artistic FREEDOM, the rights to create different renditions of anyone's music, learn and play anyone's music we want to and submit them free to this site, within „FAIR USE". I'd like to encourage people to learn, play and listen to Zappa's music, I want Frank Zappa and his music to be alive - because I'm convinced that music only dies when people leave it behind and nobody wants to play it anymore.

Hopefully copyright holders can tolerate this stuff - maybe they recognize that we are not enemies, maybe they realize we have a common interest somewhere and see this site as some kind of free promotion.

If you feel that your copyright has been infringed upon on any material found on this site and desire its removal, please e-mail me.

-Gabor
admin[at]zappafan.net