Music is an essential component in any video. It engages your target audience by emphasizing the mood and energy of your video project. But even though a hit song may be perfect for your video, it doesn’t mean you can use it freely. In most cases you have no right.
So what kind of music can you use in your YouTube or Vimeo video? Most commercial music is protected by copyright, and in the last decade, YouTube has created a system to analyze and flag users who have infringed these rights. YouTube’s system compares the music used in your project against its database of copyrighted music. Through this content identification system, YouTube can report the views of your video and send it to the copyright holder. YouTube can also mute your video’s audio, run ads over your video, or remove it entirely.
It is possible to find the original commercial music composers, producers, and songwriters and license them, but this method is certainly not an easy or inexpensive process. For example, these copyrights may vest in several different parties. First of all, the composer owns the copyright of the music composition, the performer or the artist owns the performance rights of the song, and lastly, the record company can also participate in the copyright of the recording. of track sound. In general, to license the following parties, you could end up paying a high fee (in the tens of thousands) for the music used in your video. Fortunately, there is an affordable alternative to this expensive and time-consuming process.
Take a look at the YouTube Copyright Center. This site explains in detail the restrictions for using copyrighted music in online video content.
Royalty-free music or also known as stock music for YouTube is the ideal, fast, cost-effective and of course completely legal alternative to expensive custom music or commercial license options. Once a royalty-free music license is purchased, the licensee does not have to pay any additional fees for the use of this track and can also use this track in as many projects as they wish in perpetuity. Additionally, many music libraries allow YouTube video content creators to monetize videos containing their music content. This is extremely important for well-known YouTube and Vimeo creators who rely on the ad revenue their channels produce. Many professional YouTube, Vimeo, and social media video content creators rely on stock music as an easy way to source high-quality music for their creative projects.