Covers on your channel

[Mr Stephen]

I was looking for some new ideas for side projects for my channel. For some years now I have played guitar and have taken part in many open mike nights around where I live. So, the first thing I thought about was playing cover songs. I have quite a list that I am able to do. What I was wondering, was about the legality of it. I know without a sync license I shouldn't be putting videos like that up anyway. But, I seem to have seen a lot of people who have done this sort of thing on their channels.


What advice can you give me about creating cover songs for my channel? Is it just something that people do, or should I be looking into the legalities a bit more?

All help greatly appreciated.

 

[Kath]

Moved this to the Copyright section for you

 

[Mr Stephen]

Sorry, I completely missed that forum. This place is massive!

 

[Rails2Revolution]

Oh where to start? ^_^

Actually youtubes made it a lot easier now days. Basically if you have a channel one thing you can do is go to the creator studio > create > audio library and on the top tabs there should be music sound effects and a third option I think.

What the third one lets you do is search a song your going to cover and see exactly what their record label will do if you upload a cover for it. Some will completely block the video, but most will just not allow you to make money off it which is fine.

Now to legalities
Firstly your not going to get sued over a cover song so don't fret, but if you do cover a song I'd make sure tht you only upload it as all you. Meaning not the original song in the background or anything with you playing over it. Since if you really want to talk legalities a cover must have all tracks completely produced by yourself.

Anyway it's become a lot easier to make covers on YouTube now so you should be fine

 

[offbeatbryce]

Oh where to start? ^_^

Actually youtubes made it a lot easier now days. Basically if you have a channel one thing you can do is go to the creator studio > create > audio library and on the top tabs there should be music sound effects and a third option I think.

What the third one lets you do is search a song your going to cover and see exactly what their record label will do if you upload a cover for it. Some will completely block the video, but most will just not allow you to make money off it which is fine.

The third option is audio recordings only. Not song covers, this was talked about by Youtube support when I asked them. Also A record Label doesn't own the lyrics or notation. It's the publisher. TWO different things.

THIRD you can monetize some cover songs though YouTube via their revenue share program.

 

[Rails2Revolution]

The third option is audio recordings only. Not song covers, this was talked about by Youtube support when I asked them. Also A record Label doesn't own the lyrics or notation. It's the publisher. TWO different things.

THIRD you can monetize some cover songs though YouTube via their revenue share program.

I didn't say that the third option was for covers of songs, it's anything that matches the particular song for content ID and if your cover matches then it will give you details on what will happen.

Also while I may not know the full legalities of who holds the rights to the song, I do know that the record label will be the one to match it for content ID on YouTube and they are usually the ones who decide what happens to you video by options they've set at defaults.

Anyway I did not know about the new way to monetize song covers but jeez man chill out and lay off the caps the guy just wants to know if he'll have a problem with making an acoustic song cover.

 

[offbeatbryce]

I didn't say that the third option was for covers of songs, it's anything that matches the particular song for content ID and if your cover matches then it will give you details on what will happen.

Also while I may not know the full legalities of who holds the rights to the song, I do know that the record label will be the one to match it for content ID on YouTube and they are usually the ones who decide what happens to you video by options they've set at defaults.

Anyway I did not know about the new way to monetize song covers but jeez man chill out and lay off the caps the guy just wants to know if he'll have a problem with making an acoustic song cover.

the record label only controls content ID for audio recordings not covers. A publisher can enter into content ID for the same song and it has nothing to do with the record label. The ad supported music section will not give you the same info for a cover.