Herewith you will find the outlines which are based on the terms which were set out by the Dutch Dutch Neighbouring Rights society SENA for podcasts. Below you find the guidelines for usage of our tracks in Podcasts
* A Podcast is a specific Radio program, which is broadcasted on a FM station, with music use not over 80%. The other 20% should be filled with jingles and talking with some degree of editorial / journalistic content
* The podcast should be offered to consumers on a website for not longer than one month.
* The podcast shall not be a full dj mix with only talking and jingles in front and/or at the end of the podcast. The music should be interfered within every 20% of the full length of the podcast.
* Armada tracks used in the podcast may not be longer than 2 minutes.
* The consumer shall be able to download the podcast as one full file, BUT shall not be able to download, burn, copy or scan the tracks as a independent file(s). The podcast may only be offered by the use of a special podcast program (not to be able for copying etc).
* The list of titles including time usage should be published with the podcast on the website.
* You are not allowed to use more than 2 tracks of one album within one podcast.
* You are not allowed to use 4 tracks of one artist within one podcast of which maximum 2 tracks in a row. Not to use bootlegs or other illegal recordings, or pre-releases of Armadas tracks , with the exception that this has been allowed and cleared by the original owner.
* This approval only regards master usage and has no relation with the copyrights which belong to the composers and/or lyricists of the music compositions.
* You need to pay to SENA (Netherlands) or to a similar organization who collect the moneys for Neighboring rights, subject to local laws, the but at least with the minimum compensation asked by the Dutch SENA for music usage.
Next up, Menno De Jong's podcast pulled from iTunes.
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Due to a rather unfortunate situation with Armada Music / Cloud 9 the Intuition Podcast is currently not available through iTunes. Recently Armada / Cloud 9 has expressed that they do not want their releases to be featured in the Intuition Podcast. Despite efforts on my behalf trying to secure that the legally required royalty payments are made to them (by submitting playlists to the Dutch copyright authorities Buma/Stemra and Sena) their opinion has not changed. This has several direct effects:
- iTunes has (hopefully temporarily) removed the Intuition Podcast from iTunes due to a complaint from Armada Music / Cloud 9.
- I have had to delete all Podcasts containing Armada / Cloud 9 releases from my website.
- I have salvaged Intuition Podcast 016 by cutting out their releases mistakenly put in there (the artist did not mention the fact that the release was signed to Armada / Cloud 9 when they sent me the promo, hence I accidentally put it in).
You can currently still download Intuition Podcast 015 and 016 by clicking on the RSS logo on the right of my website (this file can be viewed in iTunes like the regular podcast). Hopefully it will be business as usual very soon so that iTunes will continue to deliver the podcast to you. Once we are back up I will immediately put in the video report of Menno Solo which took place last year so you have something to look forward to.
Keep on enjoying the music. Id like to stress once again that by purchasing music through the links provided in the enhanced podcast you are securing the future of podcasting, and helping artists, labels and podcasters around the world!
Peace,
Menno de Jong"
According to Ruben De Ronde,
Promotion / Licensing manager Armada Music:
I am sure there will be a statement soon. They are implemented because the amount of podcasts using the Armada masters, in full lenght and without jingles, speaks etc. is getting out of control. Why would you run a business in music when people can download all those podcasts with the masters in it? It is def in the best interest of the artists. If they read the guidelines before they facepalm, they`d understand.
"Armada Music (Armin van Buuren) has sent out letters to DJs informing them that the are no longer allowed to use Armada tracks in their podcasts. This includes removing old podcasts which included tracks from Armada."