How to know if a material is copyrighted or eligible for use?

[DerTontaiLama]

I have been browsing through my uploaded Youtube videos, and I can see one of my videos has recieved an ID claim:

"SPACE TRUCKIN'", komposition administreres af: EMI Music Publishing 0:15 (music is administered by: blah blah)

And this is the video:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_HVMhng1yE[/media]

As you can hear, it's the [i]"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"[/i] theme tune, and not this [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w5sE82dKV0]Space Truckin'[/url] thing.

I had the option to dispute this claim, and so I did. It came up with this super-serious warning, if I was abusing the system they would blah blah blah close my account.
But I didn't chose dispute it... yet. I am not sure if I even have the rights to [i]"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"[/i] theme tune, you see.

I tried looking into who made it, and i figured out that [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennio_Morricone]Enno Morricone[/url] is the one, and that [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly_(theme)]music piece[/url] has been published by the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_Records]RCA Recods (Sony Music Industry)[/url]... But nowhere it says anything about if it's coprighted, or if I am eligible for fair use - fair trade (or whatever all that shit is called, it's just legal pasta of all it).

So, is there any way for me to know if something is copyright protected... an [i]easier[/i] way?

[DerTontaiLama]

No one has experience on something like this?

[Chaotic Lord]

As long as you don't have a "strike" on your account, you should be good. I have a video where the song it says I used isn't even in it, and I haven't been able to dispute it because I don't know what option I'd use. I contacted YouTube and they basically told me since it doesn't affect my account's status to not worry about it.

[editline]9th March 2013[/editline]

And if you didn't create the music, you don't own it. (unless it is in the public domain, and even then there [B]ARE[/B] copyrights on the particular recording.)

[Elecbullet]

Copyright exists as soon as something is made boyo, 99% of everything is copyrighted unless specifically released from being such.

[DerTontaiLama]

Very usefull, thanks!

Unfortunately I got impatient, so I choose to dispute the claim using "The content is in the public domain or is not eligible for copyright protection.", since the ID-Claim has wrongfully targeted my video.

I'll see if it will have any concequences soon ;)

[Divaya]

If you didn't make it, it's probably copyrighted.