What about using music in your own YouTube videos?
There's this thing called copyright… Anyway, is it sufficient to list the specific songs you use in your own YouTube videos in the video description? I've heard that before. Or do I need a license for that? If so, how do I get such licenses? How do I even know which songs have copyright and which don't? And is there anything else I need to keep in mind?
It is relatively easy with YouTube.
When uploading your film, the content will be checked for user rights.
If music has been used that cannot be used, your movie will not be released until the corresponding music is replaced by you.
Often it is, however, that the music used is not allowed in only one country or another. (since the war mostly Russia) In this case, your film will be blocked for this country. For all other countries, your film is visible.
It’s free if you want to replace the music so that Russia can also see your movie.
Hm? This is not how YouTube really works.
YouTube has a content ID system where you can register and play music and film pieces. After them, the upload will be checked as well as any partner video (i.e. someone in the YPP).
In the first step, nothing happens except a message that something has been found.
In the second step, the one that belongs to the content will decide whether and what he wants to do. Doesn’t mean he can do anything, share profit, even turn advertising and take profit, or restrict or block the video as desired.
Strikes include copyrights as they can lead to the termination of the channel, and then naturally accuse.
I am a media designer and can warn from my own experience of using music for which you have no proof of whether you are entitled to use music.
Use music titles only if you have permission (=licence).
Free music is not freely usable music! https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEMA-free_Music
Here you also need a license! Also valid for royalty-free music, here: https://www.proudmusiclibrary.com/en/blog/faq/general questions/was-ist-royalty-free-music/
Here you can make yourself smart. The authors are business lawyers (Many are legal lawyers) with a focus on media law.
Can you get such licenses as a normal person?
For example, you can buy certain music pieces directly via YouTube, which you can use in a video.
Copyright is a term from the American legal area that does not matter here. In Germany, artistic works such as music (but also texts or images) are subject to copyright and this applies in principle only to all works. So you usually need to use the music to approve it.
But there are a number of musicians who publish works under a free license (search for “Royalty free music” or “Gema-free music”) that you can use. Youtube also offers such music that you can use freely. (On the studio page where you can upload and edit videos under the menu item “Audio-Mediathek”.
Profitipp: If you’re filming sex in the background music from a Walt Disney movie. If the video then pops up on the internet, the lawyers of Walt Disney take care of the fact that it disappears… *gg*
The last part is a little off the subject but now yes :’)
If you go to a YouTube downloader (for example Freemake.com) and there is the link from the original song because you do not have the right one. Therefore, you will find if the song have copyright
The subject of royalty-free music is not so easy. There are zig articles and videos that explain the topic. It is actually hard to keep an overview. I personally think that the video is very well composed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2exyifqgGxQ&t=104s