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PODCASTING LEGAL GUIDE RELEASED TO ASSIST PODCASTERS NAVIGATE  
POTENTIALLY TROUBLED LEGAL WATERS

San Francisco, USA—May 8, 2006

Creative Commons and Vogele & Associates today unveiled the  
Podcasting Legal Guide, which was prepared by both organizations  
together with the invaluable assistance of the Berkman Center at  
Harvard Law School’s Clinical Program in Cyberlaw.  The Guide was  
developed as part of the Stanford Center for Internet & Society’s Non- 
Residential Fellowship.  Inspired by the Electronic Frontier  
Foundation’s Legal Guide for Bloggers, the Podcasting Legal Guide is  
designed to outline both legal and practical issues that are  
specifically relevant for podcasters, such as using music and video  
in a podcast.

The Guide has been published both online and as a PDF (http:// 
wiki.creativecommons.org/Welcome_To_The_Podcasting_Legal_Guide) under  
the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5  
license.  A hardcopy of the Guide can also be ordered via Lulu in  
print-on-demand for $5.37 (http://www.lulu.com/content/285352 (black  
& white)) or $10.83 (http://www.lulu.com/content/299500 (color)).   
The authors hope that the flexible license chosen will enable  
practitioners in different jurisdictions to translate and adapt the  
guide for their own jurisdictions to assist podcasters around the world.

“This is an exciting time,” said Colette Vogele, founder of Vogele &  
Associates.  “With the proliferation of user-generated and user- 
manipulated content on the web through podcasting and other  
technologies, anyone has the potential to become a publisher of  
original or remixed content overnight.  At the same time, these new  
media technologies remain for the most part legally untested. We hope  
this Guide will encourage readers to take an active role in  
understanding the legal issues affecting their podcasts, and  
implement techniques and resources to podcast legally.”

“The body of copyright and related laws that governs the use of other  
people’s content in a podcast is, as Larry Lessig notes in his  
foreword to the Guide, ‘insanely complex,’” noted Phil Malone, co- 
director of the Berkman Center’s Clinical Program. “This Guide seeks  
to serve as a common-sense overview of some of that complexity and to  
help podcasters understand the variety of alternatives they might  
have to safely use music, video and other materials.”

To coincide with the release of the Guide, Creative Commons has  
released podcast promos from several prominent artists including DJ  
Spooky, Kristin Hersh, Jonathan Coulton, Finian Mckean, and Au Revoir  
Simone. (http://creativecommons.org/podcasting). These promos are  
available for podcasters who use CC-licensed music to include in  
their podcasts.  Creative Commons invites other artists to submit  
promos for inclusion at the site.

About Vogele & Associates

Vogele & Associates (www.vogelelaw.com) advises businesses, non- 
profits, and individuals on a range of intellectual property issues  
related to new media and internet technologies.  Founder Colette  
Vogele holds a non-residential fellowship with Stanford’s Center for  
Internet & Society and writes and speaks internationally on  
intellectually property issues.

About the Berkman Center Clinical Program in Cyberlaw

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is a  
research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study,  
and help pioneer its development.  The Berkman Center's Clinical  
Program in Cyberlaw provides high-quality, pro-bono legal services to  
appropriate individuals, small start-ups, non-profit groups and  
government entities regarding cutting-edge issues of the Internet,  
new technology and intellectual property.  For information on the  
Center, visit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/; to learn more about  
the Clinical Program visit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/clinical.

About Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001,  
that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works— 
whether owned or in the public domain. Creative Commons licences  
provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors,  
artists, and educators that build upon the "all rights reserved"  
concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary "some rights  
reserved" approach. It is sustained by the generous support of  
various foundations including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur  
Foundation, the Omidyar Network Fund, the Hewlett Foundation, and the  
Rockefeller Foundation as well as members of the public. For general  
information, visit http://creativecommons.org

Contact

Colette Vogele
Vogele & Associates
415 751 5737
colette AT vogelelaw.com

Mia Garlick
General Counsel, Creative Commons
415 946 3073
mia AT creativecommons.org