Information on Playing Copyright Music on Youtube

0:00 How do you get around not having any copyright issues on YouTube?

So, how do you get around not having any copyright issues on YouTube? What can you do? In this video, hopefully I will help you to stop getting copyright issues or any form of copyright issue on your videos. Now, there's a lot more to this than I know but I'm just going to give you the information I have correlated over the years. If we go back about 8 or 9 years, if I was playing a track I wasn't allowed to, I would get a strike because the artist, the producer or maybe the company have said we don't want that audio, that music on YouTube at all and if you hear it just take the video off and give them a strike. Now that's what used to happen but you see... I think, and again I think, I don't know, I think what's happened over the years is that these companies, artists and producers have gone well hold on a minute, if we take that video off it's gone. On the other hand if that video stays on there with our music we can put adverts on there and get some revenue from it.

1:37 Please will you take the strike away?

Quids in! What a good idea because the producer, artist and the company have done nothing and people like us have given them content so we're sort of in a way giving them free money which I don't mind because I get to play tracks and they get some free money. So I have not for a very long time had any form of strike. And of course, three strikes and you're off. And that's happened twice when I've had two lots of three strikes. I've had to contact companies and basically said, listen, I'm there to just promote music and help and teach. Please will you take the strike away? Every time they've said yes, I've had the channel back. Now what tends to happen is you have a tier. The DJ Tutor offers a wide range of different types of music. The DJ Tutor offers a wide range of music.

Have a complete block of that track or tracks because it's either going to be released very soon, or maybe it's an old track and they want to do a remix or re-release it in the near future. So the less there is of that track out now means the more chance there is of A, people not hearing it and B, people wanting to buy it when it is finally released instead of having a multi-thousand videos of it, of the same track and people just downloading it. It's common sense really. So how do you get away from getting strikes? Now there is a link, I will put it down there in the description of this video. Where you can go to YouTube and for example your set, so you've got 20 tracks, you can type in the name title artist of that track and it will basically say yes you can play it or no you can't bugger off because we're going to give you a strike or take the video off. So even before you put your video on you can find out if you're able to play that track and I think that's brilliant.

3:37 On the other hand, if you, like me, most of the time

What I am still annoyed about is when they take a video completely off just because you're playing audio. Now, if you play the audio directly from your computer and it's true stereo, then in a way you are going into dodgy ground. Because you're potentially saying to other people, download this whole track, it's in great audio and away you go. Now if I was a producer, I wouldn't like that. On the other hand, if you, like me, most of the time... You're using the microphone from the camera and you're playing a bit of the audio. I wouldn't be fussed with that because I'd be thinking, if I was a producer, well, you know what? It's crap audio. People are getting a little sample of my track. If they like it, they're more likely to buy the proper copy MP4, sorry, WAV 420 or...

480 or 320 as opposed to just downloading some dodgy sounding mono crap from the web. In a nutshell, if you're going to use audio then check out the link right down there and that will give you advice on what tracks you can't and can play for example. But always be wary because things do change over time so for example you may upload a video today and it's fine for six months or a year and all of a sudden two or three years time there'll be issues because the company may have decided To release that track so they'll take it away, so nothing is set in stone. Always be wary, practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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