Rejected Podcast Now What?

Does your podcast include copyrighted material - e.g. commercially issued CDs? If so it would be a breach of copyright and might possibly be a reason for rejection.

You could possibly try making sure Apple know this, or they may have assumed you were pirating the material.

My podcast was also rejected, does anyone know how to resubmit it? I fixed some errors but when I try to submit it says its already been submitted.

Is copyright a reason for rejection? There are all kinds of podcasts featured on itunes that use copyrighted music with no permission, Leo Laporte and Keven Smith use music without permission all the time. Aren't you allowed to use the music if its only a short clip?

Looking at your website, I imagine that your catchphrase "share music, videos, podcasts" set off alarm bells at Apple HQ that you were dealing with pirated material (the first two more than the last one).

ps. sorry to sound so PC but "gaijin" is not a very respectable term nowadays. Most foreigners here in Japan (including myself) now bristle at being called "gaijin."

Does anyone know how to resubmit a podcast? I had a few errors and I also selected clean but it may not be considered clean so I changed it.

shaggy16,

Change your podcast URL to avoid already submitted message before you resubmit

Thanks. It worked.

Here is what I did for those of you in the same boat.

I started a new wordpress blog and installed the podcasting plug-in. I uploaded the latest episode and burned the feed with feedburner and submitted the feed to itunes. I was then approved within 24 hours. Then I went to feedburner and changed the source of my newly approved feed so it would include all my episodes and the proper website. I then pinged itunes and now its good to go.

Although this works, its crazy to have to do it. Hopefully someone at Apple can fix this.

Thanks again for the help.