


Squirrels can’t file copyright cease-and-desist letters ( yet).įortunately for us podcasters, the world has kind-hearted musicians who’ve been gracious enough to make hundreds of hours worth of music available royalty free with proper attribution. It’s enough to send a podcaster running for the deep forest, resigned to a life of building microphones out of sticks to interview woodland creatures.

Whether an episode is getting millions of downloads or three, it counts as a broadcast that can be accessed the world over, opening the uploader to the terrifyingly tangled spaghetti mess of international copyright law. To say licensing music for podcasts is “tricky” would be an understatement.
