Music licensing for podcasts

gregpuza - 12:30pm Mar 23, 2006 PST

This is just a quick FYI on the Podcasting and music front:

The podcasting rule book By OUT-LAW.COM <http://www.out-law.com/> Published Tuesday 21st March 2006 09:52 GMT

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/21/podcast_licensing_scheme/>

The Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society and the Performing Right Society have launched a licensing scheme for music podcasters. The MCPS and PRS plan to assess the operation of the licence and update the scheme early next year. [SNIP]

•obscure at least 10 seconds at the beginning and end of each individual track played in a podcast with speech or a station ID; • deliver podcasts only in their entirety, not individual tracks or portions of a podcast; • ensure that music constitutes no more than 80 per cent of the total length of any programme; • ensure that the podcast is at least 15 minutes in length; and • take all reasonable steps to ensure that individual tracks within a podcast are not capable of being ripped and that metadata or other information or data transmitted or downloaded by the podcaster is not used to identify recordings for download from unauthorised databases or sites.

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-- Later_Greg