Question about monetizing with ads and copyrighted audio.

[snoogles]

Hey guys! Ok here's the deal. I have a video that I uploaded back in 08 and it's getting around 1K views a day. I'd love to be able to monetize this, Youtube has told me that I'm "approved" for monetization but the problem is I have two short clips of songs in the background during my video....I'm worried if I start monetizing that they will pull the video and then I'll lose all the views (currently have over 1.5 Million) and also all the traffic from having a video with those views and history.

My question is, what does youtube do in such situations? Would I get a warning or could I just log in some day and see my video gone. ANY HELP WOULD BE AWESOME, Thanks!!

Jon

 

[Simon Johnson]

just monetize it, because YouTube reviews it anyway, and will either yay or nay it...
They won't penalize you...

Some of my videos, with nothing they could have a problem with, were denied (one i did was jus an exercise video,
me talking about my goals to lose weight etc)
It doesn't seem to like videos in which I drink haha...but yeah I've never been penalized for my denied videos