So this evening’s blog post seeks to answer one very important question, a question which to date no one has actually asked me but which I feel I should answer: why doesn’t Re:place Radio play Britney Spears? I know, now that I pose the question you are intrigued.
Well there are the overarching reasons such as I wouldn’t play Britney Spears on my podcast if you paid me and I think Re:place Radio’s tame A&R Man Mark McNeill would have something to say about it as well.
To really get to the bottom of why we as a podcast network can’t go and play any music we want I am first going to go through a brief explanation of the copyright surrounding recorded music, referencing Wikipedia where necessary so that you can go and draw your own conclusions about how the giants in the music industry at large have chosen to interact with the new media landscape.
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