Which brings to mind the profile of Nic Harcourt I read in the NY Times
Sunday Magazine last week that mentioned he was working on a podcast of
Morning Becomes Eclectic.  I can't even imagine getting clearance for all
that music, or is podcasting considered the same as over-the-air
broadcasting in this case?

Christopher

> -----Original Message-----
> From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf
> Of Stacy Lynn
> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:48 PM
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: podcasting q
> 
> So lets say I wanted to create a podcast (maybe I'm missing my college
> radio days or something!).
> 
> I'm concerned about the legalities of it.  Does anyone know how that
> works?  I'm not making money off the podcast and I'm linking to the
> artist/album in the playlist.  Will I get in trouble?  Also, just by
> virtue of my own taste, I would imagine if I just put on whatever
> songs I wanted, it would mostly be indie or unsigned artists, not as
> many artists on the big labels.
> 
> I've just read some nightmare stories about how ASCAP and BMI go after
> people, so I'm leary.
> 
> Does anyone know anything about this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Stacy