General Conference Podcast Episodes Availability - April 2023

[lrrasmussen]

Hello there,

I was wondering if it would be possible to update the RSS feed with the latest General Conference talks, please? It would be greatly appreciated.

I wanted to mention that there are quite a few podcast apps available that offer various playback options and features for listening to talks from General Conference. There are many features available in podcast apps for additional preferences, queues, and other playback options to listen to GC addresses in applications other than Gospel Library.

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.or ... ce-podcast (older 2022 Oct version)

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.or ... ce-podcast (stub - 2023 Apr - page doesn't yet exist)

https://psd-podcast.s3.amazonaws.com/XM ... io-eng.xml

Also, I've considered creating my own GC RSS feed, but I'm not sure about the copyright issues, especially if it's a feed that can be accessed by others outside of my personal network.

Thank you for your help.

Lars Rasmussen

[sbradshaw]

I don't know if the Church plans to do a podcast for April 2023 or not, but it looks like the October 2022 podcast came out on November 1st, so maybe April 2023 will come out on May 1st. At the bottom of your first link, there's an email address that you might be able to contact for more info. Be sure to update the thread if you hear back!

In terms of copyright, at least in the United States, simple indexes are not sufficiently "creative" (in a legal sense) to be copyrightable, but the text, audio, and video of the talks is copyrighted. Also, linking to legally-hosted material on another website is generally not considered a violation of copyright (see Copyright aspects of hyperlinking and framing). So, for example, you could freely create a list of talks in RSS, M3U, or another format that links to the audio files that are hosted on the Church's content server. This list could be shared publicly and/or imported into third-party software. However, you could not download the audio or video files themselves and re-upload them to another server (your own server, Apple's podcast server, Facebook, YouTube, etc.), unless you get permission first. There may be limited exceptions for short snippets in certain contexts under fair use (but that wouldn't apply to full talks).