[grc] Podcast of music shows

Frieda Werden wings at wings.org
Tue Feb 10 12:03:13 PST 2015


This may be appropriate to music programs, since the station's status may
be involved in the right to use copyrighted music. That would also probably
mean the liability if there is a copyright violation would fall on the
station.

For spoken word programs, I have always held that the rights to the
programs belong to the producer - this is based on US copyright law.
Unless you force your programmers to sign away their rights (as I believe
KPFA used to do - a huge issue for major grant-funded programs), then the
rights belong to them.  At CJSF we had the rule that anything produced on
the station had to air on the station first, and the station retained the
non-exclusive right to re-air.


On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 6:31 AM, dragon <tfishwall at gmail.com> wrote:

> Simple answers to your two ?s...
>
> Yes and Yes!
>
> You should add that the rights to content produced belong to the station
> and that programmer's are not allowed to upload content without prior
> approval to your programmer's handbook and agreement.
>
> -Todd
>
> Phantom Machine Works
> todd at phantommachineworks.com
>
>
> On 02/10/2015 07:24 AM, Sharon Lockhart wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > What are the protocols for the podcast of music shows?
> >
> > KKFI recently discovered that several KKFI music programmers were
> uploading
> > their shows to www.archive.org. Website allows free downloading of
> music and
> > even counts the number of downloads.  KKFI call letters are prominently
> > displayed on the site along with title of show and programmer name.
> >
> > Does this violate the DMCA and could KKFI be held liable?
> >
> > Sharon Lockhart
> > KKFI volunteer programmer
> >
> >
> >
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