[grc] Music royalty charges for music show podcasts?

[Frieda Werden]

Wondering what the situation is in the US for copyright issues around
streamed, archived, and podcast music.  Here in Canada, stations have to
gain explicit permission for each song in a podcast; however, the overall
community station tariff (negotiated by the National Campus and Community
Radio Association) covers stations for online music in these situations, as
described by NCRA legal advisor Freya Zaltz:

For copyright purposes stations are currently are licensed to provide two
kinds of online archives of their original AM or FM broadcast content:
- archives streamed from the station's own website that visitors can listen
to but not download
- archives broken down into chunks (eg 30 or 60 minutes) and available on
the station's website for download manually one file at a time

Podcasting (i.e. making a series of programs automatically downloadable as
a digital file on a subscription basis, or some similar arrangement) is
different, and is not covered by the same tariffs that apply to the
archives described above.



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Frieda Werden, Series Producer
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