ITunes/Podcasting and Copyright Questions

I am a student at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire and am creating an educational podcast. I wanted to use a song I bought from iTunes recently but want to make sure if it is okay to use. My purpose is not commercial, and I only plan to use roughly 25 seconds of this song. If I cite my source (Artist, iTunes) is this all I need to do, or is there anything else just to be sure I don't infringe on any copyright laws?

You will be breaching copyright if you use this song: your podcast being free, and your only using 25 seconds, doesn't come into it (there have been court cases over brief samples). It's a breach of copyright to use any amount of any copyrighted recording without the written permission of the copyright owner, or a valid podcast licence. Though it's fairly unlikely you would get noticed, it's a risk which could leave you open to legal action for damages - someone was posting on here recently that he'd had a demand for $25,000 for unlicensed use of a song in his podcast (I don't know the outcome).
There is music available you can use - search 'podcast free music' on Google, but as regards this specific song I'm afraid is the strict answer.

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Dale Rothenberg wrote:
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