Proving you own the rights to your own creations.

OneMillionNakama

OneMillionNakama

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Hey guys,

I'm looking for advice on behalf of my best friend. He doesn't speak English so I'm getting the information for him.

My friend is a singer/composer/producer in Morocco. He creates everything from scratch, musical arrangements, lyrics etc. He's a pretty big deal in here with over 155K likes on Facebook, thousands of followers on twitter, and obviously millions of views on his YouTube channel (a little over 5 millions so far).

He tried to monetize his work but got a message from YouTube asking him to prove that he's actually the artist shown on the video and he owns the rights to his music.

He doesn't know (and neither do I) how to answer YouTube and prove that the content is his.

Any suggestions are welcome, and sorry if this has been discussed before.
 
OneMillionNakama said:
Hey guys,

I'm looking for advice on behalf of my best friend. He doesn't speak English so I'm getting the information for him.

My friend is a singer/composer/producer in Morocco. He creates everything from scratch, musical arrangements, lyrics etc. He's a pretty big deal in here with over 155K likes on Facebook, thousands of followers on twitter, and obviously millions of views on his YouTube channel (a little over 5 millions so far).

He tried to monetize his work but got a message from YouTube asking him to prove that he's actually the artist shown on the video and he owns the rights to his music.

He doesn't know (and neither do I) how to answer YouTube and prove that the content is his.

Any suggestions are welcome, and sorry if this has been discussed before.
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probably just send a picture ID or something.
 
Im with Munchito, did they ask for anything specific? If not then ID of some kind but I would be careful sending in ID unless you are certain it is to YouTube.
 
Michael said:
Im with Munchito, did they ask for anything specific? If not then ID of some kind but I would be careful sending in ID unless you are certain it is to YouTube.
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When somebody tried to license my OC Spray video to Break.com, I sent them my ID and just covered up my address info, I just showed that it was me and it had my name on it so they could compare. You could probably do something simple too by taking a selfie next to your screen with the email on it and then send it to them so they can compare who it is. Just ask the person who contacted them what they require, don't give out too much info though just in case it's a scam.
 
Michael said:
Im with Munchito, did they ask for anything specific? If not then ID of some kind but I would be careful sending in ID unless you are certain it is to YouTube.
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I don't think they did no, just sent him an email asking him to prove that all of the contents where his creation.

I'll ask him to try the ID idea (haha) and we'll go from there :)
 
I had this years ago, and ended up writing myself a note that allows myself to use my own work haha, i like the ID thing better though
 
YouTube isn't looking for identification when they ask for evidence of commercial rights. They are seeking evidence of commercial level licensing of assets used in the video. I don't have linking rights, but there is another thread about this same question from a week or two ago where I answered this.

What your friend needs to do is tell YouTube in the specific area provided in the Monetization section how he created every element of the video. Then to be sure, if I were him I would make the following statement:

"I [name] herewith authorize the commercial use of all elements of [Video Title], created by me on [date]".
 
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