"Third party matched content" CC By Attribution 3.0

Bed Head

Bed Head

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I used a song in a video that got flagged as "third party matched content". The thing is, the "ownership" claim doesn't even come from the song's owner! It's a song by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) who is well-known in the independent film industry for his royalty-free and cost-free music.

He releases everything under the CC By Attribution 3.0 license, and provided he is credited in the description and the license is linked to, it's free to use his music for anything--commercial included. I've monetized several videos with his music already without issue.

Of course I'm not allowed to monetize the video until this is resolved (a month-long process apparently?). I disputed the claim on the basis of the above because I'm entirely within all legal parameters, and if anything the one making a false claim should be penalized.

Has anyone else had this happen?
 
This has been coming up more and more. I kinda want to write another pinned post but I don't think anyone will read it before posting anyways.. >.<

The music will have been uploaded by a partner whose network claims partner content inside ContentID. ContentID then matches that content against others who use it because the system simply doesn't know any better. Basically, no MCN/Content Owner should be bulk claiming any unverified content but for some reason a few of them are.

How do you proceed? You file a dispute and go about your day. Your dispute will succeed. In the mean time, you could send a message to the content owner over at Incomptech. He may have more luck as the actual owner of the material in getting something pulled out of ContentID.
 
I highly recommend emailing the claimant MCN after you hit the dispute button to fast forward the release. But again, MCNs need to do a better job explaining the "check here for content id" for their users as this has been happening from music to LP to sounds and so on.
 
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