AudioMicro Music Claim After Partnership With Network Ended

Michael said:
Well if that is the case then I dont see why anyone in the right mind would bother with using AudioMicro music nor see it as a benefit of partnering until it is written into the contract what happens once the contract is up. This is what I am getting at, it seems there is no way to prove you have the rights/license. Looking at it that way though doesnt that mean sites such as incompetech who offer music free and royalty free would be able to have a change of heart at any moment and start using content ID to place claims on every video using their music, none of us have it written in writing nor a contract with these websites.
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I'm not sure, I thought the creative commons licenses protected the people who used them too? If not that's very worrying although Kevin Macleod is an alright guy and I doubt he'd do that, off topic: there's a kickstarter at the moment funding a documentary about Kevin Macleod which he's in as well. I ended up donating $5 to his site the other day so it goes directly to him, I've downloaded 70 of his songs I figured I'd help out a little, if I get a job I might donate more.

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Fr...voke_the_CC_license_to_material_I_am_using.3F

I did a quick skim through that wiki too, and I'd love it if someone could confirm this but to my understanding the copyright holder has to register their work under the license? Therefore there would be an archive/database containing information stating the dates and times the work was under CC and could be used to reference the uploaded and/or publish date of a video on YouTube (for e.g.)?
 
From the practical side, you're totally safe. From my understanding of ContentID, there is no way for the system to just rescan a channel when the claiming network changes. So essentially, when you get unlinked, your channel is still whitelisted for the tracks you used, the content owner (audiomicro, etc.) has no way of knowing, barring manually searching to see if the claiming entity has changed. Really there's no practical way for you to ever have any negative consequences.

On the flip side, like @Michael I've been told that it is in perpetuity as well from multiple sources. This is not difficult to believe as royalty free licenses are all designed that way, ie you pay once for a perpetual license to content. We're not dealing with major record label content here.

My problem with it is that the audio micro and other music license items are never included in contracts at all, let alone listing what license terms there are. And none of the networks seem to feel comfortable just publicly displaying what the contract says. I'm not big on taking peoples word where it comes to legal matters.
 
It is an issue because once you leave a network your videos will no longer show as being attributed by that network.

What I would recommend is
1) Showing your agreement with the network depending on confidentiality.
2) Just get the network to inform them or ask AudioMicro to check with the network, all networks should have internal records on who was/is partnered with them :)

If AudioMicro's agreement is standard among networks then all of them should be fine for users that have been in a network previously (and used the music in that time) based on the one I have seen :)
 
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