BBC do exactly the same thing for podcasts of previously recorded radio shows. A podcast is a download, not listened to live, it's not a performance licence that's required by Radio NZ. UR needs to be able to collect for the use of their material from the listener, from the downloader. And as RNZ aren't in the business of selling music, and UR aren't giving it away, all they can do is make available for downlaod the material that they own the copyright to, which is the chat, not the music. I think it's it's amazing he was interviewed at all by the state broadcaster...I can't see BBC1 giving him 30 minutes during any given day.
essentially it's the listener who needs to > This proves once again how NZ takes America's most trumped-up > regulations and makes them worse. > > I know there are geeks in the house who will enjoy Peter > Gutmann's classic story about NZ regulation in the 1990s of > "digital munitions," otherwise known as cryptographic keys, or, > "my life as a Kiwi arms courier." > > http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/policy/courier.html > http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/policy/wass99.html > > fh > > > ------ mail forwarded, original message follows ------ > > To: [email protected] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Andy Mitchell> > Subject: Re: (313) Mad Mike interview > Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:20:16 +1200 (NZST) > >>> They won't let you waiver - music is music to mcps/prs etc and they do >>> close people down for it. >> >> This is a New Zealand site remember, so it's controlled by local >> organisation RIANZ not any American organisation. I'm guessing their >> fees >> are equally prohibitive though, because *no-one* offers podcasts or even >> streaming archived shows here unless they consist purely of talk. > > So I did some snooping and the local situation is this (turned out it was > an organisation called Phonographic Performances New Zealand who control > broadcast licenses here): > >> PPNZ does not have an existing assignment to blanket licence podcasts at >> the present time. Any broadcaster seeking to make available music on >> demand is required to seek the permission of the individual copyright >> owners concerned. > > So it's more or less impossible to archive music radio online from > here!Madness... > > > >
