Posting videos to youtube with copyrighted music

[John Rofrano]

[Gabriel Solomon] “How can i upload these event videos to youtube without my account getting flagged for copyright infringement and having the video taken down”

Substitute the music for some royalty free music. What you are doing by editing music with your video is illegal (as strange as that might seem to you because every wedding videographer does it). Unless you secure a sync license from the music publisher, you do not have the right to sync the music with a video even if the customer asked you to.

~jr

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[Matt Carlson]

The way YouTube works right now it will not be much of a problem for you. When you upload the video YouTube analyzes all the audio and picks out the songs. It will then give you a copyright notice. As long as that song is managed by one of the two or three tracking services and the song is allowed (which is pretty much 95 percent of anything that might be played at a wedding) all you have to do is click “I Acknowledge” on the copyright page notice and they will not take down the video.

What this does, however, is make it impossible to claim this video as your own for purposes of monetization within YouTube. I am guessing that you do not post these videos to make money off them. If you do post them with the idea of using them with the ad service then there is nothing that can be done.

[Steve Rhoden]

A very thin line between legal and illegal practices in this
line of work, lol.
Still, there are thousands of royalty free music library available
online, you really dont have any need to ever use copyright audio.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
1-876-461-9019

[Ron Whitaker]

It’s better to be safe than sorry!

I recently read a blog post about a wedding videographer who put a popular hit song by a well-known artist on the video (at the couple’s insistence).

Well, the couple was so exuberant to share their love with the world that they posted their wedding video on YouTube or Vimeo or some other video site. Some way the video got back to the music distributor for the pop song and the videographer–not the couple–was sued for $150,000!

The videographer then shared a couple of websites where he now gets his music. They are:

1) The Music Bed (https://www.themusicbed.com)

2) Marmoset Music (https://www.marmosetmusic.com)

Be safe, not sorry!

[Steve Rhoden]

So true Ron, better to be safe than Sorry!

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
1-876-461-9019

[Nancy Frank]

Before you post the video edit it and put a disclaimer at the beginning stating that you do not own the musical content and that no copy right infringement is intended.

[Angelo Mike]

[Nancy Frank] “Before you post the video edit it and put a disclaimer at the beginning stating that you do not own the musical content and that no copy right infringement is intended.”

This is of no help at all and doesn’t wave any kind of liability from the person producing or uploading a video with copyrighted content.

Your job is to shield yourself from such liability and speak openly to your clients that you may not post copyrighted music that you don’t have permission for on YouTube. The video can get deleted by YouTube and, though less likely, can get sued for uploading the video. You can check YouTube’s creator services, they list pop songs that they and the copyright holders allow to play on videos, and they indicate whether you can monetize the videos or not. However, those terms can change in the future, so in six months or a year if a music publisher decides to change their agreement with YouTube, you’ll be in a position where you have to take the song off the video.