PRWeb, an Internet press release service company, has announced that all podcasts delivered through PRWeb’s podcasting service are released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 license. All current and archived podcast content now carry this license.

What does it mean to podcasters? The following are the content of the license.

Under the terms of the new Creative Commons license, podcasters are free:

• To sample, mash-up, or otherwise creatively transform this work for commercial or noncommercial purposes.
• To perform, display, and distribute copies of this whole work for noncommercial purposes (e.g., file-sharing or noncommercial webcasting).

Under the following conditions:

• You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
• You may not use this work to advertise for or promote anything but the work you create from it.
• For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.

“We decided to replace the more restrictive Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.5 with the Sampling Plus version in response to requests from the podcasting community,” stated Andrew Schlichting, Web 2.0 Content Manager for PRWeb.

David McInnis, PRWeb’s Founder and CEO, positions this move as a windfall for the podcasting community. “With today’s announcement, we are making new content available to content producers seeking creative content to incorporate into their work.”

Podcast producers can now use content from PRWeb podcasts in their podcast production.

Link: PRWeb Podcast.
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