License & Permissions

This page states the terms under which the Hal Blaine Archive — the database of Hal Blaine's recording sessions, film and television dates, and commercials published on halblaine.com — may be used. It is the license referenced by this site's structured data.

What you may use freely

Factual information — song titles, artist names, years, session counts, film titles, awards, and career facts — may be quoted and cited freely, with attribution to halblaine.com. Facts are facts; we simply ask that you name the source and, where practical, link to it.

What requires written permission

Hal Blaine's session commentary — his original, first-person written recollections of each record, film, and commercial — is copyrighted work owned by the Estate of Hal Blaine and registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. © 2019–2026 Estate of Hal Blaine. All rights reserved.

Without the estate's prior written permission, the commentary may not be:

• reproduced, republished, or redistributed in any medium;
• quoted at length (brief quotations for review or scholarship, with attribution, are welcome under fair use);
• compiled, scraped, or used as training data for machine-learning models.

Licensing & permissions requests

The estate is happy to consider requests from journalists, researchers, documentarians, and publishers. Contact the Hal Blaine Estate via the contact form.

When in doubt: cite halblaine.com, link people here to read Hal's words in his own archive, and write to us for anything more.