Radio Dad (App ID 6798412909, version 1.0) is an internet radio player: it reads the radio-browser.info directory and plays each station from the broadcaster's own public stream URL, on the listener's device, with nothing hosted or re-streamed by us. It also plays podcasts from their public RSS feeds via Podcast Index.
It was rejected under 5.2.3 (Legal: Intellectual Property, Audio/Video Downloading) on 26 August and again on 21 September, each time with the request to "attach documentary evidence evidencing that you have all necessary rights or permissions to the third-party audio or video streaming, catalogs, and discovery services."
We have attached, in the App Review Information section, a signed statement with exhibits: the directory's public-domain dedication and API terms permitting commercial use; Podcast Index's published terms; a survey of 2,000 stream addresses showing the broadcasters' own servers serve the streams unauthenticated (97.4%) and identify themselves in the transmission (84% name the station, 60% their own website, 44% set icy-pub: 1); the directory's owner mechanism, under which only the stream owner can change or delete a listing; and our own takedown path, actioned typically within 48 hours. The app cannot save, convert or download a radio stream, and accesses none of the services the guideline names.
The reply to the second submission was "The issues we previously identified still need your attention", without saying what form of evidence would resolve them. For publicly broadcast streams there is no rights holder to obtain a licence from beyond the broadcaster, who publishes the stream for public reception.
Submission ID 448bc0d6-d797-444b-934f-9f0d7c1a5a28. We have asked for an App Review Appointment in the Resolution Center. If App Review can say what document would satisfy 5.2.3 for this kind of app, we will provide it.