Need some help with fair use and things i can use in my videos.

[Ender_Source]

So I basically found out what fair use is which I didn't know before and I'm wondering if I'm allowed to use copyright videos in my video for like showing an example or to express something. I know that the fair use is different in different country's so I'm from UK.

I make kinda funny moment videos but would I be able to use small bits of copyright music in them for instance: Goodbye Moonmen from Rick and Morty.


I see popular you tubers use all sorts of things that are copyrighted all the time so I guess it's ok. Though I just wanna be on the safe side because I don't wanna get in trouble.

 

[Matthew_Greg]

Fair use means that while you're using the original work, you're adding something to it, or it simply doesn't offer the original value anymore. Let's say you'd use some copyrighted song in your video, but overlayed it with your commentary, interrupted it here and there (removing the audio), then it could be considered as fair use. But if you'd use a clip, let's say from a movie and added nothing to it (commentary, music, pictures, footage), it would most definitely NOT be fair use, even if you added something AFTER that content.

Fair dealing is quite different, as it considered to be including reviews, criticism, raising awarness, news... Simply put, if you used a copyrighted content and made it clear that it's for any of those, even without your input, you might be able to monetize it.