Pod Safe Music for the Caribbean podcaster

by suzette gardner

If you’re considering launching a corporate or amateur Caribbean podcast and want to jazz it up with some background music, “pod safe music” will keep you on the safe side of copyright law internationally. “Pod safe music” is safe for using as long as you give credit to the artist at some point during the podcast and offer the audio for free.
The creators of PodShow.com launched Podsafe Music Network at podsafemusic.com a couple years ago; it’s still in Beta and continues to be a safe meeting place for artist and podcasters alike. Professional and amateur artists who still have full rights to their music can give their creations a test run by posting it and tracking it’s pod use (or better yet, sell it!), and podcasters can feast upon some great sounds without fear of lawsuits in the future.

There are some reggae and ‘world fusion’ tracks there from popular artists such as Burnging Spear and Ziggy Marley, but there are plenty of small time artists and producers too from Europe and all over. Just as podcasting is a great medium for emerging voices to engage a unique audience, so too is podsafemusic.com for artists struggling against zero radio airplay.