Creative Commons has just published a very thorough Podcasting Legal Guide, by Colette Vogele and Mia Garlick. It's available as a read-only wiki, and as a pdf download. (I like read-only wikis -- they're an excellent format for complex reference materials, especially "living documents.")
In the forward for this guide, Stanford law professor and creative commons licensing guru Lawrence Lessig notes:
"My hope for this guide (which in addition to copyright addresses publicity rights and trademark law) is that it will begin to make obvious what digital creators have been saying for some time -- that it is time we update copyright law to the digital age. Something fantastic has changed: technology now invites the widest range of citizens to become speakers and creators. It is time that the law remove the unnecessary burdens that it imposes on this creativity.
"'Copyright law' is essential in a digital age. But it ought to be a copyright law made for a digital age. Ours is not. And this fantastic Guide for those wanting to obey the rules should be evidence enough to convince anyone of that fact."
(Thanks to JD Lasica for alerting me to this guide.)
That's a good point, Miranda. From what I understand of...
