PodShow License Violations
By Rob Safuto on Jul 22, 2006 in Social Media |
I can’t wait to hear from the faithful who tell me that this is a bug. Or better yet, they’ll get all shrill and tell me that I should be glad that my work is being presented in this manner. After all, I would be nothing without my big daddies Adam and Ron.
Nevertheless, PodShow continues to violate the rights of Podcast producers by commercializing content that is distributed under Creative Commons licenses that clearly do not allow for such usage.
Take the following image as an example:
When I do a search on “Flow Video” in the PodShow system, one of my podcasts is presented as the second result. Clicking on the link takes me to a page that has a variety of links including a “play it now” link. Clicking on that link invokes the player you see above, which includes a very prominent banner advertisement for Go Daddy. This is just wrong.
My RSS feed for Flow Video clearly contains Creative Commons license tags. What about ‘non-commercial’ do they not understand?
They’re doing this to me for at least five podcasts that I produce. I have sent an email to PodShow requesting that these feeds be removed from their system. I’ll let you know if (and how quickly) they comply with my request.
Scott | Jul 29, 2006 | Reply
Have you contacted podshow about this?
PodcastNYC.net | Sep 22, 2006 | Reply
I have contacted them and got no reply.