How does one get permission to do a podcast?

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Posted by trancension on Feb-10-2010 01:07:

How does one get permission to do a podcast?

Anyone here know?

Me and some of my friends wanted to start releasing some of our mixes, not for profit or anything, just to get our style/tastes out there.

Posted by nchs09 on Feb-10-2010 04:51:

Like.... permission from your mum?

get some webspace and upload on a regular bases....

Posted by trancension on Feb-10-2010 12:13:

...legal/copyright permission.

Posted by inferno on Feb-10-2010 15:27:

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Originally posted by trancension
...legal/copyright permission.

Are you doing a metallica sample based mix?

Posted by trancension on Feb-10-2010 15:38:

Uhhh...no. But I don't want us to get a cease and desist from Armada/Anjunabeats/etc.

Posted by inferno on Feb-10-2010 15:43:

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Originally posted by trancension
Uhhh...no. But I don't want us to get a cease and desist from Armada/Anjunabeats/etc.

we would all be out of business if this was the norm

no need to worry

Posted by enydo on Feb-10-2010 15:47:

Thousands of people put up mixes every day without any sort of permission in terms of the tracks. I wouldn't worry about it.

Posted by trancension on Feb-10-2010 16:11:

Ya...but they do it mostly in private (i.e. "pm me for sendspace link")...we wanted to get our mixes on iTunes/etc.

Posted by trancension on Feb-10-2010 16:15:

Anyways...I'll just go ahead and PM some of the TA's who have podcasts and ask them what they did...

Posted by inferno on Feb-10-2010 16:20:

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Originally posted by trancension
Anyways...I'll just go ahead and PM some of the TA's who have podcasts and ask them what they did...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast

Read both of those. Itunes has a podcast submission form, but you really don't need it. The first wiki page will explain how subscriptions and feeds work.

There aren't any legal matters on this. You won't get sued for playing tracks as long as you are talking dj mix. If you are talking about radio show format, then that's completely different. I suggest you do some research on radio broadcasting rights if that's the case.

Posted by enydo on Feb-10-2010 16:45:

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Originally posted by trancension
Ya...but they do it mostly in private (i.e. "pm me for sendspace link")...we wanted to get our mixes on iTunes/etc.

Ehhhh, no. Just go look at the DJ Promotion section here if you need proof. Infernos got good advice though, just listen to him.

Posted by Jonathan Allyn on Feb-10-2010 22:01:

If you have your own website, access feedburner throuogh Google and you can use it to link up to itunes. Let me know if you need any help. Its pretty easy once you get it set up.

Posted by trancension on Feb-10-2010 22:09:

So we wouldn't get yelled at for mixing songs together that aren't ours, and then releasing them as a podcast?

Posted by junkproject on Feb-10-2010 22:11:

Best route is live podcast, you can play any songs live. The problem is if you archive the podcast and let user download it.

Posted by inferno on Feb-10-2010 23:09:

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Originally posted by junkproject
Best route is live podcast, you can play any songs live. The problem is if you archive the podcast and let user download it.

Wrong. There is no problem with archiving podcasts.

If you are playing a bunch of songs from beginning to end, no mixing and throw up a 320, you might get reported. Like I said, if putting up dj mixes was any sort of issue, most of us wouldn't be here

Posted by junkproject on Feb-10-2010 23:41:

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Originally posted by inferno
Wrong. There is no problem with archiving podcasts.

If you are playing a bunch of songs from beginning to end, no mixing and throw up a 320, you might get reported. Like I said, if putting up dj mixes was any sort of issue, most of us wouldn't be here
A mix and a podcast is different. Podcast is a radio show , you need something like ASCAP music licensing if your doing a radio show if you are archiving the show. You can play any song live tho on the radio show as long as you don't have the copy righted song on the archive podcast.

But the sound of it, seem like the OP is just releasing weekly mixes. Which i see no problem with copyright, along as it's not talk show or sell ad on your show you be fine.

Posted by Seppuku on Feb-11-2010 03:15:

You're not going to run into any legal issues. Labels love to see people supporting their releases through mixes, especially when you include a tracklist with label information. As Inferno said, unless you're playing tracks unmixed from beginning to end or selling it, you'll be fine. Whether you release it in podcast format or not has nothing to do with it.

Posted by henrywilson on Feb-11-2010 03:33:

Hey I tried to hit you back with the pm but it wouldn't let me send, sorry about the lack of reply! I just host mine on hipcast because it was cheap, reliable, and easy to use. From that point I just submitted the feed to iTunes to review for their store and a few days later they accepted it. For copyright information I just stated that it was for promotional use only and all rights are reserved by the original artists. Seemed to work out fine (fingers crossed, lol)
Anyone else aware of other directories one might submit their podcast feed to aside from iTunes? I'm still trying to figure everything out.

Posted by trancension on Feb-11-2010 14:51:

Cool, I appreciate all the replies! And no worries about the speed of your's Henry, we're not in a rush by any means We'll definitely be mixing them together on turntables, and will most likely be uploading them in ~128, as to save webspace. Thanks for all the info!

Guess we'll try making a website and hosting them ourselves at first like keithos, and then trying to get them on iTunes as well after a bit.

Posted by keithos27 on Feb-11-2010 15:05:

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Originally posted by trancension
Guess we'll try making a website and hosting them ourselves at first like keithos, and then trying to get them on iTunes as well after a bit.

FYI iTunes doesn't ever host them for you... they just act as a directory. so even when people find your podcast via iTunes it still points to your server.

Posted by trancension on Feb-11-2010 15:13:

Ya, I noticed that during my "research" - thanks for clarifying though

Posted by keithos27 on Feb-11-2010 15:21:

also check out www.feedburner.com as a free way of tracking your downloads etc.