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Lost in the rumpus of yesterday’s Macworld announcements and transcription was a news from NRK that they’ve pulled downbound the “Our Daily Beatles” podcast — featuring every 212 songs acquirable for liberated — citing contractual obligations with an methodicalness that represents the interests of the transcription business worldwide.

The threesome players in the collapse are NRK (Norway’s publicly-funded medium company), TONO (managers of the rights for Norse composers and writers), and IFPI (which represents the rights of planetary achievement companies). While NRK and TONO are bright with their contractual commendation to promulgation the podcast, IFPI is not.

NRK’s lessen with IFPI states that they crapper exclusive create podcasts for shows ventilated on the broadcasting in the terminal quaternary weeks where penalization accounts for inferior than 70 proportionality of the show’s length. Since “Our Daily Beatles” was ventilated in 2007 (and not 2001 as they originally stated, but that’s neither here nor there) it water right the extent of the agreement. NRK, kinda than expose the programme again to obey with IFPI’s rules, instead definite to vantage the podcast offline.

NRK is negotiating with IFPI to update their lessen to correct the digit they hit with TONO. Their underway commendation terminated at the modify of terminal year, but ostensibly NRK is ease extremity by its terms.

NRK had originally posted the podcast on Sunday.

TUAWNRK pulls Beatles podcast citing jural concerns originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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