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Okay folks, so I haven't been here long and I already see a lot of forum threads on here about people saying a video was taken down due to copyright of a song. I also hear a lot of people posting about Royalty Free music for their videos. Now let me explain this a simply as possible to answer everyone's questions.
Royalty Free Music is Not Free. Basically royalty free music means that you pay a certain amount of money to a company or artist to license their music for your content. There are direct agreements in place, paperwork, and other stuff that gives you the rights to license it under a certain contract that has terms and conditions. They vary per distributor so even after you pay your 10 bucks or so you need to read the fine print and all the terms before using it in a monetized situation.
Copyright Free is Not Safe Either. Music on places like NoCopyrightSounds or whoever that distributes non-copyrighted material do so because there is no copyright on it NOW. That doesn't mean that the creator can't take that song/video/picture and not make it copyright later. No Copyright distribution is only for NOW not guaranteed for later so I still don't recommend it for usage later unless you have an agreement on paper with the artist/company in question.
Copyrighted Music is Off Limits. Unless you are part of that company or have a particular deal with the company that owns the copyrights to a particular song you are not allowed to use it for monetized or public use. Even if its fair use (which is foggy with youtube honestly) I wouldn't risk it if I was you.
Bottom Line. If you want to use a music track in your videos make sure that you have actual written permission from the distributor or artist that explicitly states you have the permission to do it. Otherwise you risk a copyright strike.
Extra part (from a Reply by the Admin named Michael)
"I would definitely add something about free royalty free music that you get freely and use in your videos because there are quite a few awesome sites out there that give you their music to use freely in your commercial/monetised videos as long as you leave them credit within the description.
@ProfKranc wrote an article with many of them here http://yttalk.com/threads/royalty-free-music-sites.107883/"
Royalty Free Music is Not Free. Basically royalty free music means that you pay a certain amount of money to a company or artist to license their music for your content. There are direct agreements in place, paperwork, and other stuff that gives you the rights to license it under a certain contract that has terms and conditions. They vary per distributor so even after you pay your 10 bucks or so you need to read the fine print and all the terms before using it in a monetized situation.
Copyright Free is Not Safe Either. Music on places like NoCopyrightSounds or whoever that distributes non-copyrighted material do so because there is no copyright on it NOW. That doesn't mean that the creator can't take that song/video/picture and not make it copyright later. No Copyright distribution is only for NOW not guaranteed for later so I still don't recommend it for usage later unless you have an agreement on paper with the artist/company in question.
Copyrighted Music is Off Limits. Unless you are part of that company or have a particular deal with the company that owns the copyrights to a particular song you are not allowed to use it for monetized or public use. Even if its fair use (which is foggy with youtube honestly) I wouldn't risk it if I was you.
Bottom Line. If you want to use a music track in your videos make sure that you have actual written permission from the distributor or artist that explicitly states you have the permission to do it. Otherwise you risk a copyright strike.
Extra part (from a Reply by the Admin named Michael)
"I would definitely add something about free royalty free music that you get freely and use in your videos because there are quite a few awesome sites out there that give you their music to use freely in your commercial/monetised videos as long as you leave them credit within the description.
@ProfKranc wrote an article with many of them here http://yttalk.com/threads/royalty-free-music-sites.107883/"