If you're a regular listener to podcasts, in addition to walking his fitness, have you ever noticed how you don't hear songs in podcasts, the songs that you hear on the radio or that you've heard on the radio, maybe decades ago?

You just don't hear songs in podcasts.

And there's a reason why.

It's called copyright laws.

You have to have permission to play a song in a podcast, and it is a very complicated process,

and often there is money involved, a payment involved.

For example, when you listen to the radio and you hear

the music on the radio, you hear the songs on the radio station, these stations are not playing

these songs free of charge. I've worked in radio now for decades, and I can tell you that one of the

largest expenses every year is the music licensing fees that we pay to be

able to play songs on the radio.

And so most podcasters aren't interested in going through this long process to get permission

to play music, and they're also not interested in paying the

fees and they're not cheap. But there is an exception. It's called the Fair Use Act that allows

you to play songs in a podcast without having to ask permission or pay a fee. I'm not a lawyer, so I'm probably going to butcher this,

but there are different clauses to this fair use act. One is if you are using the song in some sort of

news documentary news piece, if you are critiquing or commenting about the song, and if you are transforming the piece of work, maybe

offering a parody of the song, or in some way transforming the original piece so that it's a little

different or a lot different from, you know, the original. In just a moment, I'm going to test the Fair Use Act.

I'm going to transform a piece of music,

a song that was very popular 30 years ago.

And I'm going to transform it not because I'm going to parody it,

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