26,000 tickets sold last weekend for Goalhanger’s Fest

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What can fill the whole of London's Southbank Centre for three days, and sell 26,000 tickets? Podcasting. Goalhanger's The Rest Is Fest took place over the weekend, with 22 shows and live podcasting from the Goalhanger stable of podcasts. We've tons of pictures to show how big podcasting can be.
Fyyd, a German-language podcast directory, is to close - after receiving a copyright claim for unauthorised use of podcast artwork. Its owner wrote: "I have received a cease and desist letter from (news agency) the dpa regarding the graphics of an NDR podcast. I just don't have the strength for it right now. Because I am neither wealthy nor healthy, I am going to minimise the risk for the future and close fyyd."
- Opinion: We've covered companies sending these sorts of things before. Where a photograph for a thumbnail has been used under licence from a publisher, then our legal advice (and the advice of stock image libraries that we asked) is that this use should be covered by the publisher's licence: even if a resized/cached copy of an image by a directory is made for privacy or technical purposes; there is some US case law to that effect. But - a slow hand-clap to the German dpa, who it appears may succeed in closing the only German podcast directory, giving more control to the US-run directories of Spotify, Apple and Podcast Index which are outside their legal jurisdiction. We've asked dpa for comment: they haven't replied.
- UPDATE: The dpa has withdrawn the complaint.
In Canada, Pod The North has announced the Pod The North Pitch Contest, which will be held at PodSummit YYC on Oct 17. You can win over $3,500 to support your podcast. Appplications to take part are open now.

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