3 Comments for Is There A Way To Post Copyright Music To Youtube Without It Getting Muted?

• 1. inukjuak  |  July 19th, 2009 at 9:10 am

  Unfortunately for you, any music that’s not your own and which you
  used in your video is considered “copyright infringement”. The huge
  music/media corporations like UMG, Warner and Viacom don’t just
  “own their music”, they also “own the rights” to them — that means
  how and where “their music” can be publicly presented.
  Thus, they’re seemingly 100% within their rights to claim the music
  in your video as their own — especially if you have not paid them for
  “distribution rights”, “licensing fees”, “royalties”, and/or “expressed
  written permission” to use and “broadcast” their music on YouTube.
  If you did use their music, that is considered part of the often-heard
  warning: “Unauthorized duplication, reproduction, or retransmission,
  whether in whole or in part, without the “expressed” written consent
  of [company name] is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved.© ” The
  main concern they have isn’t really you, but other people who could
  conceivably download, copy or just plain listen to the music for free
  and always “on-demand” (whenever they want, no commercials, no
  “talk-overs”, unlike radio), without buying it. The other fear that they
  may have is that your vid could also be tarnishing the artist’s image.
  It may not be your intention, but to the copyright owners, you might
  be involuntarily defaming them, the song or the artist — even though
  they have probably never seen your video (or heard of you). I haven’t
  seen your vid, so please don’t feel that I’m insulting you, but if I was
  Linkin Park, U2, Green Day, Eminem, Prince, etc., or the copyright
  owner of that music, I don’t think I’d want my music associated with
  possible videos of gerbils eating ice cream, creepy kids in a school
  cafeteria, boring clips of a computer video game, silly neighborhood
  pranks or even bad amateurish fanvideos of “MY” music. Your video
  probably isn’t like one of those — but if the artists and/or their labels
  didn’t object to your video using “their music”, it would be perceived
  that they “officially endorse” you or that you’re perhaps one of them.
  You might not be making money off of your video, but you would be
  certainly enjoying a little fame and popularity at their expense while
  at the same time potentially diminishing the value of “THEIR” music.
  If you are willing to take the chance and reupload your vid using the
  same music, don’t write the names of the song or artist in your title,
  description or tags. Also, avoid irrelevant phrases like “no copyright
  infringement intended”, “I do not own the music” or “I don’t take the
  credit for this song”. There are 2 key reasons for this: 1) YouTube’s
  servers actually seek out song titles, artists’ names and sentences
  like those. 2) That would be “admitting publicly” that you knowingly
  took, used, copied, duplicated or perhaps even “stole” an artist’s or
  company’s copyrighted material. In other words, you would actually
  be stupidly incriminating yourself.
  You should also consider the fact that the music-recording industry
  is starting to use secret “watermarks” or “fingerprints” buried within
  their music, so that they can uncover/identify their illegal use. Thus,
  it is possible that no matter how many times you try to upload your
  video, it may always be rejected because of “copyright infringement”.
  You’d thus be better off trying to find a different version of the music
  you want to use, preferably without “DRM encoding” in it. If you are
  interested in doing something different, put a microphone in front of
  a speaker and record the song as an analog WAV file instead of as
  a digital MP3.
  The only possible exception to what I’ve written above is if you were
  to use music that is shorter than 30 seconds in length. If you listen
  carefully to any talk-show on radio or T.V., whenever they introduce
  a guest (or go into/out of commercials), they’ll never use or perform
  other people’s music for more than 30 seconds. Can you guess the
  reason? (Hint: it has to do with “licence fees” and “royalties”.)
  I hope my info has been helpful to you.

• 2. JIM  |  July 19th, 2009 at 10:14 am

  Music copyright is not YouTube being difficult. It is a legal concept that has been around for over 70 years. I can’t quite work out why teens simply don’t get it.
  There is no “sneaking” through it just as there is no way to sneak a $500 computer out of the store without paying for it.
  It s not a rule. It is law. The owners of the music have legal protection

• 3. versantl  |  July 19th, 2009 at 2:11 pm

  contact the bands & ask what requirements are necessary for posting.

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