Sessions from last fall’s Podcast and New Media Expo (PNME) continue to be released via Gigavox Media’s Podcast Academy site. The latest session is of interest to any podcaster who wants or needs to include music in their episodes. “Music Licensing for Podcasts and New Media” covers a lot of ground in under an hour. […]

The Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) has published an excellent primer on fair use and copyright in the context of new media. These are topics that podcasters, indie video publishers and bloggers continually struggle with. A recent example is the controversy over the Richter Scales unauthorized use of Lane Hartwell’s photos in a video for […]

Yahoo today announced a new free browser-based MP3 player that you can use and freely embed in your page. Here’s how it works: You add links to MP3s in your web page. These can be anywhere on the web. You add a line of code to insert Yahoo’s Javascript library. Working play buttons appear next […]

Photographer Lane Hartwell is tired of people stealing her photos and reusing them without her permission. She’s published her images, like a lot of us, on Flickr, with all rights reserved. Unlike most of us, though, Hartwell is a freelance photographer and a regular contributor to Wired News. Her work has featured in publications around […]

Chris Penn, one of the organizers and creators of PodCamp, announced at the end of PodCamp Boston that the “rules” of the unconference events are changing. A large number of people registered for but didn’t show up at last weekend’s event. Because of the high number of no-shows, organizers have hundreds of unused shirts, badges […]

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) today sent another new wave of 411 threatening letters to 19 universities nationwide. The RIAA sent letters to these schools schools: Drexel University (17 letters) Indiana University (23) Northern Illinois University (25) Occidental College (19) State University of New York at Morrisville (18) Texas Christian University (20) Tufts […]

Podcast411’s Rob Walch has suggested a standard button for one-click subscriptions for the Zune portable media player: This is a variation on the iTunes 1-click chicklet: Both are released under a Creative Commons license. Microsoft hasn’t yet released details on their implementation of podcasting or their one-click support. Ideally, they’d help move the podcasting world […]

The co-editors at Boing Boing and Federated Media Publishing have launched Boing Boing TV, a video version of the popular blog. ‚ÄúBoing Boing fans can expect the same curious and irreverent exploration of the world they find on the blog, but now through video,‚Äù said Xeni Jardin, above, co-founder of Boing Boing and co-host of […]

Music industry group SoundExchange said Tuesday that small Internet radio broadcasters could pay royalty rates from 10-12% to stream traditionally-licensed music online through 2010. Qualified Webcasters ‚Äî those earning $1.25 million or less in annual revenue ‚Äî have until Sept. 14 to accept SoundExchange’s offer. The agreement covers streaming recordings of SoundExchange members. SoundExchange represents […]

The Financial Aid Podcast’s Christopher Penn has released a free .php script, the Podcaster iPhone Kit, that can be used to generate an iPhone-friendly page for your podcast. Here’s how Penn describes the script: This simple little web page parses your podcast’s XML feed and slaps it into a nice page designed to render well […]