{"id":611,"date":"2006-03-30T09:04:18","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T08:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/30\/debunking-the-podshow-contract\/"},"modified":"2006-03-31T13:18:29","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T12:18:29","slug":"debunking-the-podshow-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/debunking-the-podshow-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Debunking The PodShow Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of this week&#8217;s podcast episodes of <a href=\"http:\/\/shitecom.libsyn.com\/index.php?post_id=73950\">Keith and the Girl<\/a> rips into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podshow.com\/\">Podshow<\/a> contract, and it&#8217;s pretty painful. And not just becuase of what the contract says,  but because the viewpoint taken by the hosts is a particularly vicious &#8216;for the comedy&#8217; tone.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, back up one, if you look at the contract from a business persepective yes there are one or two flowery bits, but I can&#8217;t see anything that I wouldn&#8217;t expect to read in a contract from an organisation such as Podshow. So to hear the non-competition clause getting booted because it does what it says on the tin is weird. Naturally the show is flying round the podsphere and everyone seems to think it&#8217;s a hoot. Perhaps that attitude explains why there hasn&#8217;t been a grass roots revolution in advertising and monetisation of podcasting for the majority of indie shows?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Some links: <a href=\"http:\/\/mwgblog.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/29\/the-podshow-contract\/\">Michael Geoghegan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcolligan.com\/2006\/03\/30\/on-podcasting-contracts-exclusivity-and-the-rest-of-the-conversation\/\">Paul Colligan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bieberlabs.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/03\/30\/keith-and-the-girl-dissect-the-podshow-contract\/\">Beiber Labs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrlik.org\/2006\/03\/29\/warning-to-all-podcasters-listen-to-what-podshow-wants-from-you\/\">Ministry of Intruige<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of this week&#8217;s podcast episodes of Keith and the Girl rips into the Podshow contract, and it&#8217;s pretty painful. And not just becuase of what the contract says, but because the viewpoint taken by the hosts is a particularly vicious &#8216;for the comedy&#8217; tone. Actually, back up one, if you look at the contract from a business persepective yes there are one or two flowery bits, but I can&#8217;t see anything that I wouldn&#8217;t expect to read in a contract from an organisation such as Podshow. So to hear the non-competition clause getting booted because it does what it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-9R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}