Are this people Partners and do they monetize their videos?

[ramfe]

Hi there!
I've read many many articles and rules about Partnership but I'm still with the following doubts. Hope someone who knows YT better can help me!

1) When you Activate the option of monetizing one of your videos, that's when you become a YouTube partner? In other words, monetizing your videos is how you become a partner?

2) What happens if a snippet of a song (which obviously is not yours) is used. What happens in this case? Would it be considered under "Fair Use"? Can you still monetize the video? Example: 0:34
youtube .com/watch?v=za7e4DoSd8g (sorry can't post links)

3) What if you include in your video, those snippets of audio/instruments/loops that come with GarageBand?


4) What happens if someone uploads a video of him/her covering a song, but the instrumental version has been created and uploaded by another user (who allows using his/her instrumental version)?
And what if you did the instrumental version yourself?


5) Finally, this all leads me to this question: Can you become a YouTube Partner if you just upload covers?
There's plenty of examples about people who I believe are partners and receive money from their videos, such as: Kurt Hugo Schneider, Boyce Avenue, Sam Tsui, Christina Grimmie, Taylor Ward, Max Schneider, Megan Nicole,... etc.

Thank you very much for your time! I really appreciate it!!

 

[KGATV]

1. Yes. But not a "Full" partner. Becoming a full partner means you signed with a network.
2. If you upload content that you do not have permission/rights to, you can get a copyright claim. (This may not harm your channel, but if you are planing on getting partnered with a network, your channel cannot have these.) The owners of the copyrighted content can issue a copyright strike (If you get too many, your channel gets disabled), they can make it where they make all the money from that video, not you. Or they will do nothing.
3. I'm not sure about the Garageband samples, but I wouldn't upload anything you don't have permission to.
4. As long as they have permission/rights to use the content, they can. It may get flagged for copyright, but if you have the rights you can present YouTube with them to get it removed.
5. Depends on the song. Some networks provide licenses for the music you covered.

 

[obscurimity]

You can upload garageband stuff, because the whole point of that program is to let you make music, whether or not you make that music public.

 

[TheNM22]

Here's my two cents I really don't know, but I'm going to tell you what I think

1. Yes, being a YouTube Partner and montization walks hand in hand

2. If it's only a short snippit, I guess that it could be considered fair use.

3. You should read the terms and conditions of the application.

4. Lyrics are also copyrighted, therefore I don't think you can make a cover without permission.

5. No. Unless you have some sort of commercial use license for the songs you cover. These people probably paid for such license

As I said, I don't know, but this is what I think Hope that it was somewhat helpful

 

[Richnode]

There's already misinformation in this thread, I'll try and clear it up as best I can.

Hi there!
I've read many many articles and rules about Partnership but I'm still with the following doubts. Hope someone who knows YT better can help me!

1) Yes, when you monetize you are considered a partner just the same as if you signed with a network. Some people dislike this for some reason, but it's fact.

2) You cannot monetize the video unless you have obtained the correct permissions to do so. It will not be covered by fair use (even if it was, you still couldn't monetize it).

3) You will have to read the licensing terms of the GarageBand software to be able to answer this.

4) You have to obtain explicit permission to monetize a cover of a song. The permission should be from the copyright holder (usually the writer) of the song, not who made it famous.

5) Yes you can, provided you obtain permission as explained in 4.

 

[TheNM22]

There's already misinformation in this thread, I'll try and clear it up as best I can.



1) Yes, when you monetize you are considered a partner just the same as if you signed with a network. Some people dislike this for some reason, but it's fact.

2) You cannot monetize the video unless you have obtained the correct permissions to do so. It will not be covered by fair use (even if it was, you still couldn't monetize it).

3) You will have to read the licensing terms of the GarageBand software to be able to answer this.

4) You have to obtain explicit permission to monetize a cover of a song. The permission should be from the copyright holder (usually the writer) of the song, not who made it famous.

5) Yes you can, provided you obtain permission as explained in 4.

Well, I wasn't way off

 

[unknown_user0004]

There's already misinformation in this thread, I'll try and clear it up as best I can.



1) Yes, when you monetize you are considered a partner just the same as if you signed with a network. Some people dislike this for some reason, but it's fact.

2) You cannot monetize the video unless you have obtained the correct permissions to do so. It will not be covered by fair use (even if it was, you still couldn't monetize it).

3) You will have to read the licensing terms of the GarageBand software to be able to answer this.

4) You have to obtain explicit permission to monetize a cover of a song. The permission should be from the copyright holder (usually the writer) of the song, not who made it famous.

5) Yes you can, provided you obtain permission as explained in 4.

Thank you! Adsense partners are the same as network partners. The confusion comes from artifacts of the old design.

 

[ramfe]

wow thank you all for your answers.

So to sum up, you need permission (and usually it's from the writers). This means that all those people who cover songs (who have at least 10,000 subscribers) need actually the permission of the writers of those hits?? How come they even get that permission?

 

[Richnode]

wow thank you all for your answers.

So to sum up, you need permission (and usually it's from the writers). This means that all those people who cover songs (who have at least 10,000 subscribers) need actually the permission of the writers of those hits?? How come they even get that permission?

They ask for it, and probably split the profit.

 

[ramfe]

They ask for it, and probably split the profit.

To whom they ask? How come they be able to contact the writers (or the copyright holder)?
I don't think a well-known partner from YT have asked , for eg. Adele if they could have the permission to use the song etc. ??