If I Credit the Author of the Music, Can I Add Their Songs to My Podcast?

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Pat Flynn

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today’s question comes from Dave, who has a question about adding songs to his podcast. Can he add music that is not his? Even if he credits the author of the music, can he add that to his podcast? If any, what are the licensing and legal implications? What are some alternatives to adding his favorite song or band of the week to his podcast? Do you have a question about adding music to your podcast? Record it at http://askpat.com. Thanks to our sponsor, Design Crowd. To learn more about working with their designers, go to http://designcrowd.com/askpat. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:50.4	Ask Pat. Right now, here's today's question from Dave.
0:57.5	Pat, I'm thinking about starting my own podcast.
1:03.6	I'm going to pay somebody on Fiverr to do my voiceover work, to do the introduction, and as well as someone to do an original bit of music to blend in with that.
1:08.5	But at the end of my podcast, I was thinking about adding my favorite song
1:12.1	of the week, given the artist and the title of the song and possibly the CD that it came off of,
1:19.6	and then playing a snippet of the song or the whole song. Now, would that be a copyright problem?
1:25.3	Because I'm not actually profiting from it? And it's going to be a
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