{"id":6246,"date":"2016-09-30T20:39:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T03:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firemark.com\/?p=6246"},"modified":"2016-10-01T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T18:01:04","slug":"use-release-podcast-guests-entertainment-law-asked-answered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firemark.com\/2016\/09\/30\/use-release-podcast-guests-entertainment-law-asked-answered\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you use a release with your podcast guests? &#8211; Entertainment Law Asked &#038; Answered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VZ_2-EmaWGo?rel=0\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nAUDIO: <\/p>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firemark.com\">http:\/\/firemark.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Should you use a release form with your podcast guests?<\/p>\n<p>Hi, I'm Gordon Firemark, and this is Entertainment Law Asked and Answered, where I help you take your career and business in entertainment to the next level,\u00a0by answering common entertainment law questions..<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Alright, hi everybody.<\/p>\n<p>So, I'm in my podcasting corner of my studio today,\u00a0because today is September 30th,\u00a0the International Podcast Day.<\/p>\n<p>And today, rather than answering a question\u00a0that I get a lot, I wanna share a bit of advice that I\u00a0always like to give to podcasters and others\u00a0who are making new media productions,\u00a0because when you interview guests on your show,\u00a0there are some pitfalls that you may not be thinking of.\u00a0And it's real easy to be informal about it\u00a0and just say, &#8220;Hey, will you come on my show?&#8221;\u00a0and they, &#8220;Yeah, sure,&#8221; and you connect up and\u00a0everybody talks and it's done.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the problem is, what if that person\u00a0later on decides that they didn't\u00a0like the way it came out,\u00a0they didn't the sound of their voice\u00a0or their look, or their hair,\u00a0and they ask you to take the thing down?\u00a0Or, worse yet, they decide they don't like you\u00a0or what you stand for anymore,\u00a0and they ask you to take that episode down.\u00a0And it can really lead to some big trouble\u00a0if you don't have something in writing\u00a0that says, &#8220;I understand that you're going to record me,\u00a0&#8220;and you can use my performance in your show,\u00a0&#8220;and any and all media,&#8221; and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>This actually came up in a situation\u00a0in my practice not long ago where\u00a0a podcaster was actually sued\u00a0by a former guest on her show.\u00a0The guest had been an early guest on the show\u00a0in its first few episodes and shared a point of view\u00a0about a controversial subject that, at the time,\u00a0the podcaster shared, and made it known\u00a0that yes, we agree on this point and so on.\u00a0And there was a lot of good information\u00a0contained in this 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resolved,\u00a0if the podcaster had just used a simple release form\u00a0that the guest could have signed.\u00a0I wanna make everybody out there aware of this\u00a0and I want every podcaster to start using\u00a0a release form with your guests.<\/p>\n<p>Now, to make it real easy, I've got a\u00a0free one you can use.\u00a0It's available at <a href=\"http:\/\/podcastrelease.com\">podcastrelease.com<\/a>.\u00a0Just go over there, put in your email address,\u00a0get the form and start using it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a lot of you are gonna ask,\u00a0&#8220;Well, wait, do I have to use a paper form?\u00a0&#8220;Do they have to print it out and sign it\u00a0&#8220;and mail it back to me and all that?&#8221;\u00a0I think the short answer is, they really should.\u00a0That's really the right way to do it.\u00a0I think that signing a piece of paper\u00a0still carries a lot of formality and importance\u00a0and you're gonna remember that\u00a0when it comes time to be, &#8220;Oh, I'm upset 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