A federal court ruled yesterday that music performance and royalty fees don’t apply to music downloads and movie downloads that feature music.
The U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York affirmed a lower court ruling that found that digital music and media downloads aren‚Äôt public performances. Because they aren’t public performances, they shouldn‚Äôt [...]

Bluegrass Podcaster and humorist Wichita Rutherford tells us that he and his podcasts have made the jump from the Sirius satellite radio network to soon-to-be-acquired competitor XM. His new weekly program, The Grand Old Time Machine, debuted last Friday, April 6, on XM.
He describes the new show this way:
“The new show, ‘The Grand Old [...]

Magnatune is using some great pro-podcasting propaganda at its site to promote music podcasting.
The Podcasting is Selling Music logo parodies a 1980’s campaign by the British Phonograph Industry, Home Taping is Killing Music. Despite the best C30-C60-C90 efforts of home tape-makers, music somehow survived.
Magnatune is a net music label that specializes in Creative-Commons Music. Magnatune [...]

March 29: It’s 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we’re highlighting a great free music podcast.
One of the things that is great about music podcasts is that they let you explore whole categories of music that mainstream radio tends to ignore.
A great example of this is Rubyfruit Radio, [...]

 

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It’s 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we’re going to do our best to hook you up a great free music podcast.
Tony Steidler-Dennison is a self-described Linux geek, blues freak and lifelong Cardinals fan. He’s also a great example of a podcaster using his Web and media chops [...]

 

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March 23: It’s 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we’re going to do our best to hook you up a great free music podcast.
We’re still on our way back from the Corporate Podcast Summit. We’re spending some unplanned time in Detroit, thanks to Northwest Airlines cancelling our flight [...]

 

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March 17: Earlier in the month, we told you about the Music That Matters podcast from Seattle’s great public radio station, KEXP. Another KEXP offering that we thought deserves a mention during Podcasting News’ 31 Days of Free Music is their excellent podcast Live Performances.
The weekly podcast features live sets from a wide range [...]

 

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March 13: It’s 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we’re going to do our best to hook you up a great free music podcast.
Previously, we’ve highlighted podcasts with free guitar music, free jazz videos, free soundtrack music, and some brutal, harsh noise. And we’re not even halfway through [...]

 

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March 12: It’s 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we’re going to do our best to hook you up a great free music podcast.
Today’s podcast is the Jon Hammond Show - a video podcast that focuses on the music of aptly named jazz organist Jon Hammond. The production [...]

 

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March 11: It’s 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we’re highlighting a free music podcast.
So far this month we’ve highlighted podcasts with lots of nice music:

Nice piano music
Nice guitar music
Nice americana music
Nice Irish and Celtic music
More f***ing nice music

They gotta lotta nice music - a haw, haw, haw, [...]

 

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