
Some sites had free music and some you had to pay a license fee or subscription to use the music, but it would allow the video to be monetized. When it came time to pick the music, I told her about a few websites with copyright free music. Recently I collaborated with a friend on a video for her channel.

More Information about using Copyrighted Music If you do own the rights to that song, you can dispute it and have the copyright claim removed. Or another option is to mute that song in the video. You can trim out that section from the video if it is a short section, you can replace the song with copyright free music or music that you have a license to use. Under the “Monetization” box, there is another area that says “Actions.” You can click on “Actions” for more options.

In some videos, the copyright owner may decide to split the revenue with the video creator, but typically this is not the case and it is not advisable going into video creation with this plan in mind. The monetization will typically almost always be ineligible. It will explain channel impact, video visibility, and monetization. In the box, it will tell you a few things. If you click on the words “copyright claim” then a box will come up with more information. But there are some other possible outcomes of using copyrighted music. It will look something like this in the YouTube Studio (as of 2019).īasically, you can leave it like this, but you won’t be able to monetize that video in the future. If it has a copyright, you will be notified on your uploads screen. You are fine. However, Youtube knows every copyrighted song, so it is impossible to get away with using copyrighted music.

If it doesn’t have a copyright, nothing will happen. When you use a popular copyrighted song, YouTube has a special program in their system that will automatically flag that music.

If you hear a popular song on the radio that you want to use in your videos, this is what will happen. Royalty-free doesn’t mean copyright free. When it comes to using music in your videos, you have to find either copyright free music or purchase a license to use the music in your videos. Well, what is the right answer!!?! In this blog, we are going to discuss safe music to use for youtube, the consequences of using copyrighted music, and where to find safe music for youtube that is free or available for purchase. On the other hand, you may have heard about how youtube is picky with the music and the music must be free of copyrights in order to be used on YouTube. When starting out on youtube, you may have thought that you can just use any music.
