Podcasting Licensing Frontiers

"As the Cyberspace community members' ability to create a podcast increases with time and technology, the explosion of podcasting is imminent. While many consider podcasts to be digital download, there is also the view that they are broadcasts, and as such, performing rights organizations want to tap this new revenue stream for their members."

As new forms and forums of community and communication come into being we will have to reconsider and define what is properly considered public and private. Is cyberspace a public domain, a public resource, or is it the sole province of corporations and profiteers? What rights will a cyber citzenry have in the years to come?