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The Financial Aid Podcast Can Now Legally Play BMI Covers

28 June 2007 1 views 4 Comments

We just bought our BMI cover license for the podcast. For only $165 prorated ($288/year) we’re ready to rock. Next up: buying our ASCAP license, too. Once we have the dynamic duo, just about every song out there that’s a cover will be fair game as long as we have permission from the SRCO – the cover artist – to play their cover.

If you are a podsafe artist that also happens to have a repertoire of covers, please feel free to email the MP3s to me at FinancialAidPodcast at GMail dot com. Please include in the email a brief statement that the Financial Aid Podcast has permission to play your cover song.

The motivation for doing this was pretty straightforward – there’s a TON of great cover music out there that can’t be played on podcasts even if you have the performing artist’s permission. For example, I was at Jeff Pulver’s VON Europe Party and I have some GREAT video of Herding Cats playing. Until I bought these licenses, it was illegal for me to play the video, and Herding Cats, being a cover band, was denied access to my podcast’s audience. I can also play stuff you’ve never heard before on a podcast, like Matthew Ebel’s fantastic covers from various Second Life concerts.

The bottom line is that the Financial Aid Podcast made the investment so you can get even more great stuff from the show.

Question to you: what podsafe artists also have great covers that aren’t getting airplay?

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4 Comments »

  • Daniel Johnson, Jr. said:

    I would love to hear a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here”.

    # 10 July 2007 at 11:23 am
  • Bill Deys said:

    It goes without saying that I am going to recommend that you play “Both Sides Now” by my good friends Uncle Seth! I’m looking forward to hearing some tunes! This is a step in the right direction, if more people do this it would raise awareness for podcasting. Too bad we can’t get it together in Canada enough to do this!

    # 29 June 2007 at 7:33 am
  • Conn O Muineachain said:

    Fascinating, Chris. Taking the Coverville route! I must look in to the options for broadening my podcast playlist under the Irish copyright structure.

    # 29 June 2007 at 4:03 am
  • karmyn tyler said:

    That is awesome Chris…..I will surely let you play any of my covers. I can send you an album or MP3

    # 28 June 2007 at 10:35 pm

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