Otra entidad de gestión se apunta a la moda (necesaria, por otro lado) de adaptar sus licencias para aceptar podcast, dotándose de ese áurea de novedad e innovación al que se apuntan todos. Pero esta vez, la Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society and the Performing Right Society, ha introducido algunas novedades, sobretodo en el punto de requisitos y obligaciones a los podcasters que no utilicen DRM’s en sus podcasts:
In particular, the podcaster will be required to:
- obscure at least 10 seconds at the beginning and end of each individual track played in a podcast with speech or a station ID;
- deliver podcasts only in their entirety, not individual tracks or portions of a podcast;
- ensure that music constitutes no more than 80 per cent of the total length of any programme;
- ensure that the podcast is at least 15 minutes in length; and
- take all reasonable steps to ensure that individual tracks within a podcast are not capable of being ripped and that metadata or other information or data transmitted or downloaded by the podcaster is not used to identify recordings for download from unauthorised databases or sites.
Podcasters will also be obliged not to:
- produce podcasts that contain recordings from a single artist or that have more than 30 per cent of the musical works written by the same composer or writing partnership;
- play any individual track more than once in any single programme;
- provide an electronic guide to the podcast which contains tracks played and corresponding times;
- insert any flags or other markers in the podcast which may directly indicate or which may be used to indirectly infer the start and end point of tracks or segments of copyright content;
- incorporate repertoire works into advertising; or
- use the repertoire in such a way as may be taken to imply that any goods or services are endorsed, advertised or associated with the repertoire or any artist whose performance is contained on the repertoire or any other party who owns rights in connection with the repertoire.
Además, deberá pagar el 12 % de sus ingresos brutos por publicidad o, si no obtiene ingresos: 1,5 libras (2.16 €) por canción completa y 0,75 libras (1.08 €) por piezas de menos del 50%.
Y mientras tanto, en España no podemos poner música en los podcast, al menos esa posibilidad.