Why You Should Think About the Legal Side of Your Podcast

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And now, this week's episode.

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A question I see come up a lot is if you're starting a podcast with a friend

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and they're going to be a co host, should you put a legal agreement in place?

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After all, they're your friends, so you'd hope that nothing goes wrong.

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But we all know that isn't always the case, unfortunately.

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So yes, I would recommend that if you're about to start a podcast with your

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friend and they're going to be a co host and you're going to be responsible for

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different things, it's definitely worth getting a legal agreement in place.

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It doesn't have to be super technical or full of legal jargon,

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but definitely something that makes it easy to understand and clear

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as to who's responsible for what.

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So if one person's paying podcast hosting and marketing, and the other

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person's paying for all the editing, etc, It's clear what that role is.

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That way, if you ever do go your own way, there's no grey area about what part

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of the podcast belongs to each other.

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Not only will it make it easy to either close the podcast down or start a

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new podcast altogether, but it should keep your friendship intact too.

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A great resource for this is Gordon Firemark, who's got a lot of templates you

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can use, as well as resources and insights into the legal side of podcasting.

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And I'll leave a link to Gordon's website in the show notes.

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Until the next time, happy podcasting.

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