Letting a friend monetize his music on my video?

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metoober

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Hello,

Would the board members be good enough to confirm or correct this scenario?

Say I have a little YT channel with a few videos posted. I'd been thinking of adding some music in the background to spruce up the vids. A friend is a musician who has suitable tracks recorded.

So far my videos are not monetized. But my buddy says I can use his music 'gratos', if I can at least monetize the music portion.

After much reading, I think it would work like this:

My pal would:
- create a YT channel of his own,
- upload a video with a static image and his music as the audio
- join ContentID to get his music fingerprinted
- enable third-party monetization on that video (including setting up an AdSense account if he doesn't already have one, & linking it to his YT channel)

I would:
- add his music to my video and re-upload it

Then shortly I'll get a ContentID match notice, and accept to have my video monetized, and everyone's happy.

Is that it?

Thanks.
 
So long as you have the rights over the music which you can prove either through a contract you two signed or him giving it as Royalty free everything should be alright.
 
Jawad Soomro said:
As long as his music is his original work and not copyrighted, u can monetize ur videos :)
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Thank you for the reply.

Yes, these would be his own original songs.

Question is - is the arrangement I described the right way to get monetization money flowing back to him for using it? Will what I described work?

"u can monetize ur videos" - makes me think of a point - I hadn't planned to join in the monetization. Don't have an AdSense account myself. Can he still get the music portion? (That is, what I understand from reading is that any ad revenue has a video component and a music component)

Thanks.
 
metoober said:
Thank you for the reply.

Yes, these would be his own original songs.

Question is - is the arrangement I described the right way to get monetization money flowing back to him for using it? Will what I described work?

"u can monetize ur videos" - makes me think of a point - I hadn't planned to join in the monetization. Don't have an AdSense account myself. Can he still get the music portion? (That is, what I understand from reading is that any ad revenue has a video component and a music component)

Thanks.
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Since u r monetizing ur videos, u r earning money, but if he holds the copyright of music, only he can earn money from adsense, not u.
 
He'll never get entry into ContentID. YouTube doesn't accept any but sizable companies. And thank goodness for that. If just anyone could get a ContentID account, we'd have even more false claims than we already see.

Honestly, you're playing with fire a bit by going this route. The only way he'll get his music into ContentID would be to register it with a large music rights group like Adrev and even then, he won't get all of it because they'll take a share. Just monetize the videos, sign an agreement with him that you'll give him 100% of the revenue generate and be done with it.
 
Tarmack said:
He'll never get entry into ContentID. YouTube doesn't accept any but sizable companies. ....Honestly, you're playing with fire a bit by going this route. The only way he'll get his music into ContentID would be to register it with a large music rights group like Adrev.....
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Well, that's interesting info I didn't see mentioned on Youtube's explanation. It sounded so.....easy.

Not to be a doubter - but, would you know any references to confirm this common knowledge?

Tarmack said:
.... And thank goodness for that. If just anyone could get a ContentID account, we'd have even more false claims than we already see...
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At the risk of being polemic - the appearance is that only big corporations deserve to have their intellectual property protected and/or monetized - and screw the little guy?
 
metoober said:
Well, that's interesting info I didn't see mentioned on Youtube's explanation. It sounded so.....easy.

Not to be a doubter - but, would you know any references to confirm this common knowledge?



At the risk of being polemic - the appearance is that only big corporations deserve to have their intellectual property protected and/or monetized - and screw the little guy?
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I'm my only source. I run a sub-network on YouTube and don't have a ContentID account. I've tried. Your friend is free to apply, just temper his hopes of receiving a reply, because it won't happen.

No, it's not a screw the little guy issue. ContentID is a legal pandoras box. By entering content into it you are claiming the legal right to that content whether for distribution or ownership. No company worth their salt is going to knowingly and thus illegally claim to own something they don't own. Individuals will though. A foolish internet troll could in theory go as far as intentionally taking down someones channel through Content matches and subsequent manually entered DMCA takedowns. It would cripple YouTube in a matter of hours because there are a lot of trolls out there.
 
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