People like to use music in their podcasts, either as a whole show, or just for introductions, closers, and interstitials (kinda like, say, NPR). As you can imagine, there can be copyright issues if you use bits of music you don’t have permission to use, or beyond the fair use limit.

So in the podcasting world, there is something called “podsafe” music, music that is OK to use without royalties, licensing, or any other legal obstacle courses.

After lunch today at PodCamp, the musical group Uncle Seth performed, and they were quite good. People stuck around, many recording the music (there’s even a video of the music already up on the web, and they *just* wrapped). They put in a plug for their CDs at the end, noting that they had a whold podsafe sample CD for free. They also had a CD of a Joni Mitchell cover that they did, that one of the group members deemed “poddirty” in comparison. Another one for the dictionaries.
I *heart* geek conferences.