![]() ![]() ![]() The section starts like this:īy submitting User Content through the Services, you hereby do and shall grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license to use, edit, modify (including the right to create derivative works of), aggregate, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, perform, and otherwise fully exploit the User Content in connection with the operation of the the Services, the promotion, advertising or marketing of the Services, or any other purposes. They state very clearly that while you still own your content, they have the right to use it in any way they see fit without compensating you. In short, anything you upload to their service, or record using their service, is fair game for them to use however they want. Go on over and read it, it’s about two-thirds of the way down the page. I’m not a lawyer, but Anchor has written their “License Grant” section pretty plainly. And what I saw in Anchor’s terms (the version revised on February 7th, 2016) were absolutely a no-go. I’m not going to claim that I always read the fine print on everything, but when it comes to my content I try to be careful about where I put it and what I allow. I was all set to sign up and get started, but first I read the Terms of Service. It appears to let you do everything in one place: set up a new podcast or move an existing podcast (with no storage limits), set the episodes up for automatic distribution, record your audio on the mobile app (including guests and co-hosts), insert theme songs and sound effects without having to do advanced editing, embed it, promote it, and even make a transcribed video. A former producer of mine recommended Anchor.fm, so I checked it out, and was really impressed. A few weeks ago I needed to find a home for two new podcasts, plus an existing podcast with a large number of back episodes. I’ve started podcasts from scratch and know what a pain the process can be. I’ve been podcasting since 2010, so I know my way around the business a little bit. UPDATE: There’s been an important change to the Anchor podcasting app’s TOS! You can read about it here. Are you looking for a place to record and host your podcast? Anchor.fm looks fantastic on the surface, but there’s a potential problem lurking underneath. ![]()
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