Music is an essential component in any video. Engage 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’re free to use it. 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. The YouTube system references the music used in your project with its copyright protected music database. Through this content identification system, YouTube can report views of your video and send it back to the copyright holder. YouTube can also mute your video’s audio, post ads on your video, or remove it entirely.
It is possible to find and license the composers, producers, and composers of the original commercial music, but this method is certainly not an easy or inexpensive process. For example, this copyright may belong to several different parties. First, the composer owns the copyright of the composition of the music, the performer or artist owns the rights to perform the song, and finally the record company can also intervene in the copyright of the recording of track sound. In general, to license the following parts, 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 YouTube’s 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 want in perpetuity. Additionally, many music libraries allow YouTube video content creators to monetize videos that contain their music content. This is extremely important for well-known YouTube and Vimeo creators who depend 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 get high-quality music behind their creative projects.
