podcaster bill of rights

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The world’s top Data Brokerage firm claims to gather and sell the detailed public and private data of over 2 Billion people from around the globe. Another industry leader boasts a database featuring 3,000 identity and behavioral traits of over 700 Million individuals, including you, and all of it is for sale. 

Data brokers are sold this information by web companies. Web companies with experience doing this will often purchase a technology or web service, then to build usership fast, offer it to users for free. Building usership fast is critical in this model. The more data on users, their behaviors, likes and dislikes, memberships, medical conditions, etc, they can gather, the more money they will make and the sooner they can begin selling it to data brokers and advertisers. Many of these services do this without your permission or awareness. However, more often than not, a deep-dive into the service’s terms and agreements can be quite shocking. 

Your traits and shopping habits aren’t the only things at risk. Free services own the content created on them, like your podcast, and they are free to exploit it in any way they see fit. Do you want to surrender ownership of your art and your creations for the ability to share it? We don’t think you should have to. 

Not all free services on the internet break the law in violating your privacy, selling your data and/or profiting from something you created but, when you see “Free”, you should be asking, “How do they make money?”.

In this case, by collecting and selling your data and ensuring their right to repurpose, redistribute, and monetize any of your content you created on their platform and/or using their technology; per their terms of agreement.  
 
Since the launch of our business in 2005, we have considered many different ways in which we could generate revenue. We are a business after all and need to keep the lights on.  Some of those ideas came from within and many from outside influences but each of them was considered on the basis, "Is this what we set out to do when we started this company?". 

We started this company to make it easy for anyone to create, maintain and grow a podcast.  

Our simple philosophy: What you make, create, and produce with your podcast is owned by you. We are here to support you and help you share it with the world. That is what you pay us for. 

We do not farm and sell your data. We do not claim ownership over anything you create on our platform. Our tools are free for you to use without surrendering your ownership of the content you create with them. 

We think about these values and honor our podcasters and their creative rights every day so we thought, let’s write them down for not only our podcasters but for all podcasters to know what their rights are as creators.

                                                                     Here is our Podcaster Bill of Rights 

​Take a look, tell us what you think and always, let us know if you have any questions.
Keep making great podcasts and rest assured we are here to help you, not exploit you.

-Podomatic

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