Yes and No! In the early days, YouTube’s Content ID system was a real pain for royalty free music libraries and stock music libraries like ours. However, over the years it has become quite a good thing. Although, it still has its issues. Back in its early days if your music triggered a Content ID […]
New Children’s Nursery Rhymes & Songs
In recent times we’ve found that nursery rhymes have become popular with YouTubers who put the music to their animation in order to monetize their video. This is fine and is covered by our license and we have a page dedicated to using our music on YouTube. However, the Content ID inconvenience can frustrate those who don’t understand it, […]
Avoiding Monetization Losses on YouTube
There is nothing more frustrating than uploading your latest video for your subscribers just to find that your monetisation has been disabled due to third party content detected in your video. This renders your video revenueless for the first few hours of its existence, at least until the third party releases it and your video […]
Content ID: A Balanced View
There is much discussion on this topic between music producers, music libraries and professional music buyers. This blog post is our view on Content ID. Now, I don’t want you to think that I am only looking at this from a one-sided point of view. Although royalty free music is one of our main areas […]
Professional Music Buyers Guide: Understanding Content ID
Content ID is a relatively new technology that crops up more and more these days, which is why we chose to include it in this Professional Music Buyers Guide series. If you have licensed music legally, but still received a Copyright notice from YouTube for the musical content in your video, chances are this is […]
YouTube Copyright Notice Explained
Digital technology is great, however, when combined with a complex subject such as music copyright it can make things even more complicated. Sometimes we license music to clients and they use it on YouTube and receive a Copyright Notice. This inevitably causes alarm and confusion. Quite simply, this notice is telling you that third party […]
