Comments on: Hopes for legal music podcasts rise

Digital DJs, record labels are discussing ways to simplify music podcasting, in talks that could help accelerate format's ascent.

Legal music in podcasting isn't difficult or expensive

I'm a fan of Coverville and against Brian Ibbott, but his podcast is not the only one dealing with music issues.

ANY podcaster using copyrighted music without paying the license fee and/or the written consent of the copyright owner is in violation. Copyrighted music is protected under the auspices of basic intellectual property rights. Podcasters shouldn't be complaining about that; they should be either willing to adhere to the law or stop using the copyrighted music in their podcasts.

IMAO, podcasters should stop whining about the big bad music corporations and license their music like the bloggers at www.IMAO.us have done 100% of the time.
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That's a whole lot of...

...spamming your website, especially since it's clear from your post
that you didn't read the article.

SPAM Alert

That "site" is just more right wing talk stuff, and if you want to listen to that, you can get more than enough on AM radio, and its more entertaining on the radio.

Methinks it is SPAM.

"Methinks"? What are you, the geeky Amish?

I guarantee that if Brian Ibbott was a so-called "right winger," none of you would care about his idea for podcast licensing. Instead, you'd all type in your smarmy HTML code-language posts for Brian to "<sarcasm>ask his friends at the big evil corporations that control the recording industry to give him a break on the licensing</sarcasm>"

Yeah, that level of discourse sounds really open-minded...

If YOU did any research, you'd know like I do that Ibbott pays a few hundred bucks a year to music publishers for the songs in his podcast. Ibbott knows he's in something of a legal gray area and wants to get a "podcast license" set up ASAP to be 100% legal (like the IMAO Podcast has been since Day One).

Then again, if I knew that the copyrighted music I was using in my podcast wasn't 100% kosher and put me at risk of being sued at any moment by the RIAA over my podcast because my podcast was lavishingly praised on...

-CNET's News.com
-The New York Times
-The San Jose Mercury News
-USA Today
-National Public Radio

...I guess I'd probably be working to create a whole new music licensing scheme to "cover me" too.

Then again, the IMAO Podcast is 100% legal and doesn't have to worry about it. I wonder why those evil lying liars of the right wing can be compliant with the law but the trustworthy and honest opposition wants to break those laws and then justify their criminality as "opposition to a bad law"?

I'm right here, CNET. Just contact me anytime...