KCRW to podcast Morning Becomes Eclectic – Great news, but due to all of the various stupid licensing restrictions, they’ll only be able to podcast performances and music by independent artists who give explicit consent. The difference being, of course, the stupid and arbitrary distinctions between “broadcast” (i.e. RealPlayer streams) that can are covered by blanket licenses paid by radio stations, and downloadable MP3s, which fall in the same class as CDs that you purchase, and cannot be licensed the same way.