Youtube licenced music - General

Hello FP! I have a film in the making and I want to insert some licensed music in it. When the film will be finished im going to post it on YouTube. Because it will contain licensed music, are there any problems with this, because some videos get removed because they use licensed music. What do I have to do, so that YouTube will let me play licensed music in my videos? Should I add credits at the comments somehow or contact the creators of the music somehow? Thanks! :) I'll post the film here when its done!

Its copyrighted, don't use it without permission.

How do I get the permission?

Ask for permissin I think?.... :downs:

If you really want things legal you have to buy a royalty-free music license.

[QUOTE=mr.sofa;35454422]How do I get the permission?[/QUOTE] Pro-tip: You won't.

[QUOTE=Wormy;35454439]It might be good to let YouTube know that you don't use the music for any profit. This might be good to put in the video or the description:[/QUOTE] That doesn't actually do anything. They'll still ban the video, the automated program going through videos doesn't pay attention to descriptions. When they take down the video, that's when you can use Fair Use to get your video online again.

[QUOTE=Wormy;35454439]It might be good to let YouTube know that you don't use the music for any profit. This might be good to put in the video or the description:[/QUOTE] This doesn't work, you'll end up getting a strike from YouTube which removed some of the privileges on YouTube for a short time. You can use that fair use thing afterwards but it will still leave the strike since they say they can't remove them.

Use Vimeo. It's better for independent filmmakers since they don't put the pressure on you for copyright BS

[QUOTE=Dr. Fishtastic;35457834]Use Vimeo. It's better for independent filmmakers since they don't put the pressure on you for copyright BS[/QUOTE] I'm gonna use vimeo if that is true :)

I know this is old, but FairUse is generally hard to work with. Youtube isn't the nazi's people think they are. If you're using music without permission or without license, you are breaking copyright. You shouldn't be using it, let alone publishing it. Ask the copyright holder or artist for permission to use it in your project, and you'll be fine. If the video does get flagged, ask the copyright holder to take off the flag from your account. Youtube doesn't really take stuff down unless the copyright holder asks them to or they setup an automatic ContentID. Otherwise just use the BILLIONS of royalty free music around. I Have a huge library I use for all my videos. Once you start looking you can find loads of great tracks that are CC licensed.

[QUOTE=Brt5470;40172156]I know this is old, but FairUse is generally hard to work with. Youtube isn't the nazi's people think they are. If you're using music without permission or without license, you are breaking copyright. You shouldn't be using it, let alone publishing it. Ask the copyright holder or artist for permission to use it in your project, and you'll be fine. If the video does get flagged, ask the copyright holder to take off the flag from your account. Youtube doesn't really take stuff down unless the copyright holder asks them to or they setup an automatic ContentID. Otherwise just use the BILLIONS of royalty free music around. I Have a huge library I use for all my videos. Once you start looking you can find loads of great tracks that are CC licensed.[/QUOTE] Thanks! :) and sorry for the late reply... 1 thing.. where do I get the "BILLIONS of royalty free music" ? :D

[QUOTE=mr.sofa;40962652]Thanks! :) and sorry for the late reply... 1 thing.. where do I get the "BILLIONS of royalty free music" ? :D[/QUOTE] [url]http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/[/url] Well, here's one page you can try.

OK here's some info from someone who spends a lot of time on YouTube. Officially No, you can't use anything you do not have permission or a license for (or something you created yourself) ContentID is a system that scans a video for audio and visual match upon an upload. If it detects something used that matches one of 3 things can happen. 1) Your video be disallowed 2) You've video will be allowed but the original rights holder to the song will get to put adverts on your channel and receive all revenue. You'll also get a strike which will harm you future chances if you want to be a YouTube partner or join a network 3) You're video will be allowed but all audio will be muted. Now in the case of 2 or 3 happening this is purely down to the choice of the rights holder and they can change it at any time. So if they decide they don't want your video any more then they can have it removed. It's not worth the hassle, especially if its a short film you've worked hard on. There's a ton of sites you can get royalty free music from. I use Audio Jungle alot very good price and high quality. Hope that helps :D

I've never understood the point in taking down the video for copyright reasons. Correct me if I'm wrong but if you're not profiting off of it then it's just free advertising. Right? Why do companies feel like this hurts them in any way?

Copyright laws. If they don't defend their copyright then they are almost in a way giving it up.

Depends on whoever you use the music from I guess. In my experience it seems aslong as you don't monetize the video, you can use copyrighted stuff, I'm presuming aslong as the copyright holder hasn't specifically told youtube not to allow anyone to use it. I had a video of me racing in Dirt3 and I was listening to Metallica at the time in the background and as soon as the video was uploaded, it detected it was that specific song and asked me to confirm it. I said yes and it just greyed out the option to monetize the video, unless I removed the audio. So no problems there, not sure if Metallica are still anal about their copyright stuff but it let me have the video up and their song with no problems, no strikes against my account or anything.