Can YouTube strike you if

Of course they can strike you if you use Royalty Free music. Royalty free doesn't mean free. It means you pay once, not an ongoing royalty for use. If you didn't pay once, then you don't have the proper license and are engaging in copyright infringment. If you do pay for the music, make sure the license specifically allows online monetization, not all of them allow YouTube monetization. A place like Audiomicro is good for this because the standard license actually mentions YouTube itself as an allowed location. I have licensed my intro track from them and I think it cost me around $40.

For truely free music, you need to search for Creative Commons. This license has some variables but basically it usually boils down to a blanket permission the artist gives to anyone that the music can be used for whatever you want for free, as long as you credit the artist every time it's used. So if you find a song to use for an intro, you must put the title, artist and a linkback to their site in the description of every video using that song.
 
TaliaBloodina said:
If it doesn't have copyright no, they can't. If the song appears under your video then it has copyright.
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Do not give advice based on what you feel the right answer might be.

EVERY song ever written is copyrighted by the artist who created it. Whether the copyright is documented is irrelevant and whether it shows up as a related track in the youtube description is no indicator of copyright status. The original artist can sell their ownership of the song, license it either for payment or free, etc but none of that changes the fact that it is copyrighted.

There are notable exceptions but these change generally depending on the country. Usually copyright ownership expires around the 70-120 year mark after it was originally published.

If you want to get involved in armchair law conversations, at least look it up first. This is a harsh response because you are not only giving wrong information, you are giving dangerous wrong information.
 
Tarmack said:
Do not give advice based on what you feel the right answer might be.

EVERY song ever written is copyrighted by the artist who created it. Whether the copyright is documented is irrelevant and whether it shows up as a related track in the youtube description is no indicator of copyright status. The original artist can sell their ownership of the song, license it either for payment or free, etc but none of that changes the fact that it is copyrighted.

There are notable exceptions but these change generally depending on the country. Usually copyright ownership expires around the 70-120 year mark after it was originally published.

If you want to get involved in armchair law conversations, at least look it up first. This is a harsh response because you are not only giving wrong information, you are giving dangerous wrong information.
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Thank you!
 
Tarmack said:
Do not give advice based on what you feel the right answer might be.

EVERY song ever written is copyrighted by the artist who created it. Whether the copyright is documented is irrelevant and whether it shows up as a related track in the youtube description is no indicator of copyright status. The original artist can sell their ownership of the song, license it either for payment or free, etc but none of that changes the fact that it is copyrighted.

There are notable exceptions but these change generally depending on the country. Usually copyright ownership expires around the 70-120 year mark after it was originally published.

If you want to get involved in armchair law conversations, at least look it up first. This is a harsh response because you are not only giving wrong information, you are giving dangerous wrong information.
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Sorry but they never tell me that the songs I used had copyright and I used this method :/ ,so have many other people I know
 
TaliaBloodina said:
Sorry but they never tell me that the songs I used had copyright and I used this method :/ ,so have many other people I know
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The YouTube ContentID system requires copyright owners to register and upload their own content into the system. This service automatically identifies infringing material.

Just because a song doesn't show up in ContentID doesn't mean it won't be added in the future. Using a wide variety of songs without permission is an excellent way to get a copyright strike down the road.
 
Tarmack said:
The YouTube ContentID system requires copyright owners to register and upload their own content into the system. This service automatically identifies infringing material.

Just because a song doesn't show up in ContentID doesn't mean it won't be added in the future. Using a wide variety of songs without permission is an excellent way to get a copyright strike down the road.
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WEll I believe you can accept that it has copyright it that happens, I think it tells you something like the material used here is owned by somebody else and it's not yours or something like that, then you click on accept and I read it means that if the company claims that song you have to delete the video or change the song.
 
Royalty Free Music can still get recognized as being similar to copyrighted material. This has happened to me several times. Be sure to remember where you got the music so that you can provide links when a content owner files a copyright claim. When I dispute the claim, I give the link and they release the claim.
 
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