On a more serious note (no pun intended). Below is an excerpt, written by a well-known Washington, DC lawyer. I will provide more excerpt if there is any interest. It regards music rights. I am only providing this because it seems HLW is now trying to be an FM DJ. This one will hurt in the pocketbook if her practice continues. Imagine if they go through her archives and she gets fined for every download of a show with music rights violations. Do the math: If she has 100 subscribers X 20 songs (violations) = 2000 violations/fines. Take that times 5 days a week. = 10,000 violations per week. 52 weeks in a year. = 520,000 violations per year. Subtract out of that the days she doesn't do a show. So, roughly half a million times in a year she is violating music copyright law. I know somebody will say otherwise, but check it out for yourselves. Below is the excerpt:
"Podcasts, though, are not viewed as public performances. Instead of transmitting programming like a radio station, a podcast is viewed as a recording of the program – listeners are making copies of the podcast program onto their smartphone or tablet. Under the Copyright Act, a recording does not involve the public performance right, but instead the right to make “reproductions†of the musical work and the sound recording. As the music is combined in a podcast with words and other sounds in the recording, it also invokes another right of the copyright holder to authorize “synch rights†or “master use rights." To get any of these rights, you need to go directly to the copyright holders – usually the publishers for the musical works and the record companies for the sound recording – and negotiate for each song that you want to use."
