- Fundamentals of Digital Audio Podcast

podsafe

What is podsafe music?

Notes on last show - Windows audio editing with VST support - Cubase SE $99 at Amazon. Might be a decent PC based low-cost option that supports VST and thus RMS buddy, but I'm not sure it's the holy grail of low cost options
Update on Sony MZ M10 minidisc recorder - used for long conference recording (need PC to download compressed files) - worked great. Push record come back 4 hours later
Tried Audacity 1.3 beta with VST enabler- no love
Disclaimer: do not take this as legal advice. I am not a lawyer and make no guarantees on the accuracy of this information.

Any work is copywritten by default in US
Fair Use is not well defined for digital media like it is with text
Intro to copyright Garon lecture. mp3: http://www.hamline.edu/law/audio/copyrightintro.mp3

Made yourself - in GB or Acid on the PC.
Royalty free loops in GB3 or Apple loops or otheres (link to loops). Link to free loops: http://www.icompositions.com/site/tour/freeloops/ 789 free loops listed. Or buy something like Apple's Jam Packs - great stuff but $99 each for about 3,000 loops
Podsafe Music Network. Musicians agree to allow others to use. http://music.podshow.com/ - don;t know the ins and outs of the license agreement but the basic idea is indie artists sign up to have podcasters play their music in exchange for a mention and a link.
Creative Commons licensed music - usually must give just attributuion. (link to CC site and links Opsound).

Key ideas are some rights reserved: attribution, derivatives, non-commercial and share alike
Links

Creative Commons site and search - http://creativecommons.org/
Opsound - http://www.opsound.org/info/about/
Our Media - http://www.ourmedia.org
Creative Commons search - http://search.creativecommons.org
Yahoo creative commons search: http://search.yahoo.com/cc
Google advanced search allows search for CC works (look for usage rights option) - http://www.google.com/advanced_search

Commercial music - stay away. I don't think there is a clear definition of fair use and labels seem to be of the opionion that any use is not fair use.
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