Funny – but how sad. <\/p>\n
just as i was talking about a possible future podcasting liscence at mutek yesterday, the “Canadian Podcast Music Act<\/a>” is now out:<\/p>\n SOCAN, the association which licences performance and communication of music in Canada, is proposing to charge non-profit podcasters $200 per month for the right to use commercial music in their podcasts. (By comparison, while American podcasters pay roughly CDN$30 per month, in most cases they must pay three different groups that fee.) Funny – but how sad. just as i was talking about a possible future podcasting liscence at mutek yesterday, the “Canadian Podcast Music Act” is now out: SOCAN, the association which licences performance and communication of music in Canada, is proposing to charge non-profit podcasters $200 per month for the right to use commercial music… Continue reading $2,400 a year for podcasting? f*** you must be kidding!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9769,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/9769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSOCAN’s tariff application is currently before the Canadian Copyright Board, but it is willing to negotiate individual deals with podcasters that might be less than the proposed tariff before a Board ruling comes down. So far, only one Canadian podcaster has approached SOCAN with such a proposal. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"