Help with Outro Music?

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S7ewie

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Hey everyone, S7ewie here.

I've been thinking of setting up my own youtube channel lately, would mostly be a gaming channel but probably have some other stuff too until I decide exactly where to go with it. I'm struggling to understand the rules behind copyright and music.

Obviously you can't just go slapping big chart tracks across your videos but what can you use? I'm thinking mainly in terms of intro / outro music. 10-20 second clips, completely instrumental.

I'm sure most of you have herd of the well known youtuber pewdiepie, in fact I'm sure many of you are subscribers. His 30 million plus subs must be hiding somewhere after all XD Well I'm gonna use him as an example. Those of you that follow him might recognise a piece if music he regularly uses in his intros an outros. It's called ..

"Child Protective Services Theme Song" by "Nero's Day at Disneyland"

Obviously he has a legal right to use it or someone would have pulled him up on it now. So what gives him that right? Does he have private permission? Or is it the way he uses it? Could I or anyone else use it in the same way?

I'm still searching the forums for answers but if anyone could help me out I'd appreciate it.

Thanks
S7ewie
 
He probably bought the rights on the song. I can give you an advice, if you are not sure if song is copyrighted just search it on youtube and if under the videos where song is playing, google offers you to buy it then the song is copyrighted. Remixes usually are not under copyright strike so you can use them in your videos
 
Sounds like he has bought the rights to use the song, or the network he is with has the rights covers him for it. Most people use royalty free music, so pretty much you won't get a strike for it. There are a lot of royalty free music websites out of there, but some of them you have to pay for, as most people mistake royalty free for meaning it's free to use. It just means there isn't any royalties involved in the usage of it so you're good to use it once you buy it, but most of the music like that does tend to be free :)
 
Okay that's a fair point, but just to add..

In ONE ten minute montage video I just looked at, he uses the following songs..
Chemical Brothers - Do it Again
Jason Derulo - Wotcha Say
Tiny Tim - living in the Sunlight
Team America - America f**k Yeah
Taylor Swift - Love Story
Justin Beiber - Baby
Ludacris - Move b***h
Iggy Azalea - Fancy
The Who - Won't get fooled again
(Plus a few others that I couldn't work out)

Okay, they're only only like 3 second clips and some maybe edited slightly but even so. He can't own the rights to all of them? And this is just one of his thousands of videos. He must be doing something to get around it?
 
S7ewie said:
Okay that's a fair point, but just to add..

In ONE ten minute montage video I just looked at, he uses the following songs..
Chemical Brothers - Do it Again
Jason Derulo - Wotcha Say
Tiny Tim - living in the Sunlight
Team America - America f**k Yeah
Taylor Swift - Love Story
Justin Beiber - Baby
Ludacris - Move b***h
Iggy Azalea - Fancy
The Who - Won't get fooled again
(Plus a few others that I couldn't work out)

Okay, they're only only like 3 second clips and some maybe edited slightly but even so. He can't own the rights to all of them? And this is just one of his thousands of videos. He must be doing something to get around it?
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if he has remixed/put them together in a compilation it counts as fair use, meaning it's not copyright
 
Kate (Caitlin) said:
Just going to go ahead and say, pewdie is big enough he can get away with it. If you want custom music you could ask @IDK Games
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I guess that's a perfectly reasonable explanation. Youtube makes plenty of money off him so they look the other way?

brodielawrence said:
if he has remixed/put them together in a compilation it counts as fair use, meaning it's not copyright
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Well they're all separate, they aren't mixed together. So if I put a bit of reverb and some other effects on a clip then it's allowed? Is that how people get away with uploading DJ sets?
 
S7ewie said:
I guess that's a perfectly reasonable explanation. Youtube makes plenty of money off him so they look the other way?



Well they're all separate, they aren't mixed together. So if I put a bit of reverb and some other effects on a clip then it's allowed? Is that how people get away with uploading DJ sets?
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Of course they do xD
 
S7ewie said:
I guess that's a perfectly reasonable explanation. Youtube makes plenty of money off him so they look the other way?



Well they're all separate, they aren't mixed together. So if I put a bit of reverb and some other effects on a clip then it's allowed? Is that how people get away with uploading DJ sets?
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yeah that's how they do, because it's fair use, and compilations are also the same
 
Yeah I agree with them
. Plus you want you don't want anger the bro army for having the same one intro and outro music and it's the same genre.
 
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