(podcasting from the studios in the OTL Bunker, somewhere in Chicago)

(broadcasting on the “if you invented podcasting then we invented the Internet” radio station WLUW-FM (88.7) Chicago)

Mike Stephen learns about a company that has patented podcasting, discovers Chicago Movieoke and discusses the new management of the Maxwell Street Market.

Cindy Cohn – Legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and an attorney on the “Patent-Busting Project”

Get this- a company has actually patented podcasting.  Cindy gives us the details, what this could mean for podcasters, and how the EFF is fighting this patent.


Katy Collins – Creator and host of Chicago Movieoke

Sure, you’ve done karaoke in your lifetime but have you ever done movieoke?

Micah Maidenberg – Editor at the Chicago Journal

The legendary Maxwell Street Market has new management.  Micah brings us the story.

OTL #167 local music provided by Judson Claiborne