Podfic remixy sort of thing

[jelazakazone]

I am wondering if anyone has taken podfics that have already been recorded and taken snippets and turned it into a new story.  I just made my first podfic with music and, to be totally honest, I would have done something completely different (and may still yet) if I hadn't felt constrained by the conventions of what I've seen.  I'd love to play with other people's voices and words, to mash it up and make something new.

Also, anyone know about American copyright laws and if using a couple seconds of a song in a podfic is a copyright violation? I figured that it wouldn't be because I know you can do that with vidding, but now I'm all in a twist about it because dh thought it was a copyright violation. 

(Mods, not sure if it's ok to post this question here, so I'm happy to delete if it's not. Thanks!)

Comments

[argentumlupine]

That is not one of my kinks, so no. Sorry! I do know I have seen watersports podfic on my flist at some point, though.

I don't know about music and copyright for podfic. I'm trying to remember the Fair Use rules. I think it's something like up to 10% of the musical work, not to exceed 30 seconds. But don't quote me on that. *hands*

[jelazakazone]

LOL. Not one of my kinks either, but I wrote the fic for a friend and then I had an "a ha" moment with the song Thrift Shop and wanted to podfic it.

Wow, that's pretty generous! I have definitely used much less than that.