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August 3, 2018

What We Talk About When We Talk About Fair Use

What does a fair use trial take? Sometimes, a whole lot of grit. Credit: The New York Public Library, New York. The New York Public Library Digital Collections https://digitalcollections.nypl.org Every conversation I have with clients about fair use is really a conversation about their tolerance for risk. Instead of a definitive set of black and white […]

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May 8, 2014

Casting a Net: Podcasts, Webcasts, and the Licensing Regime

So you want to start a music podcast.  Or, maybe a music webcast.  Regardless of which format you choose, you’ll need to acquaint yourself with copyright law and licensing.  But how easy it is to license the content you desire varies greatly on whether you opt for a podcast, where users download your episodes (much […]

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