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Creative Commons by Attribution and Metadata
Hello. I would like to know whether there is something that I can add to the Metadata of a video before exporting from Adobe Premiere to correctly attribute parts of the video (the music for example). Let’s say that I produce a video and all of it is my work, except for the music which is usable for my purposes but on the condition of mentioning the musician’s name in the credits or video info. Now let’s say that I upload such videos a lot to YouTube, for example, and I don’t want problems with YouTube if their moderators can’t see this note crediting the musician and can’t be sure whether the piece of music really is under a “Creative Commons by Attribution” license; is there something that I can do in the Metadata of the videos to make it easier for YouTube to confirm the license, or its URL or so?
I understand that perhaps I can write all that under the video, but I’d rather embed all the technical details for YouTube to fetch, than advertise it under each and every upload. So is there a way to do this from Premiere’s Metadata tab?
Many thanks for anyone taking the time to help or give tips.
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Forgot to mention: another important reason I’d like to do this in the Metadata of the video file, or embed it in the video itself, is to make sure that others who receive a video that I make for them do not face problems with using it or publishing it on YouTube, especially if they don’t know all the license details.
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Youtube and other sites use, in really basic terms, audio fingerprints to determine copyright status. These fingerprints are submitted by major labels and enforced because Youtube abides by their wishes. It’s highly doubtful that your video will be stripped of music if you use a Creative Commons track, the exception being if the author complains directly.
If your music is under Creative Commons, follow their license and post credits in the details section of the video. So far as I can tell, Youtube does not use any XMP metadata to fill out video title, description, etc. I can only assume it strips file metadata. I can’t speak for other video sites.
In terms of handing off the video to clients, as your next question suggests, they should be given a copy of all licenses and releases pertaining to the video and they should understand that creative commons music needs to be credited unless they want to purchase royalty free music.
Angelo Lorenzo
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Thank you for explaining this, Angelo.
YouTube only occasionally strips audio nowadays, as far as I can see, because they are able to advertise on material that contains copyrighted music and share the revenue with the copyright owner. That’s my understanding, at least. I also do not use famous music for videos to be used commercially or for advertising. So my main challenge isn’t the stripping of sound; it is YouTube’s inability to determine that I’m the copyright holder of everything on certain videos that are intended for quick monetizing, or to be used with ads than bring the uploader himself some profit from revenue-sharing. I would like YouTube to quickly find any answers for their pesky questions in such cases, without having to resort to the level of posting URLs of licenses and such in the video info, or—God forbid—in the video itself!
My understanding is that I can provide so much detail, including links to licenses, in the Metadata of any file that I produce, and that this Metadata can be embeded in the video file itself. When we export from Premiere, there is a Metadata button, which when pressed allows us to “embed in output file” and create sidecar file should we want that; and we can include so much detail there in the Metadata. So can’t YouTube simply datamine this info, including links that they actually ask for when they want you to prove ownership or permission to use all the elements in your video, straight from the file itself and save us both the trouble or delay? I would be shocked if it is confirmed that YouTube strips the file of this mine of data; they usually want more data, not less, especially if detailed and only in the background.
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Youtube doesn’t care to the point where they are policing the issue personally; far too much video gets uploaded for it to be screened like that. They only look at a video that has been flagged by users or claimed by the copyright holder. Youtube has these tools:
https://www.youtube.com/t/copyright_owners
https://www.youtube.com/t/dmca_policy
https://www.youtube.com/cvp_app
https://www.youtube.com/t/contentidYou can certainly include whatever info in file metadata you like, in my experience YouTube doesn’t show any indication to the end user that they care about it. Their documentation strictly concentrates on their metadata: the title, description, and keywords you fill out on their site.
Angelo Lorenzo
Fallen Empire – Digital Production Services
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