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Royalty Free music today keeps the lawyers away!

Although the issue of using copyrighted music has been brought up many times, I constantly see videos and slideshows (that have been turned into a video format) with well known, obviously copyrighted music uploaded to Active Rain, You Tube and many other sites. Recently, Christmas music - everywhere! In fact, it seems sometimes it's the majority of videos that have obvious copyrighted music as a background soundtrack.

YOU CANNOT DO THIS!

Copyright issues online are being brought front and center recently, and if you think you won't get caught - think again!

If you want music for a background for a virtual tour, a video or use on your website, it's simple to just Google "royalty free music". There are plenty of companies that will sell you completely royalty free songs in any genre to accompany your tour. Granted, many are expensive ($25++ per song), but you can use it repeatedly with no repurcussions whatsoever. There are even some sites that offer free music, although most is a step above rollerskating music!

To cheap? To lazy? YouTube now offers this service for free! It's called "Audio Swap". Just upload your video to YouTube. Go into the 'edit your video" area, and there is a choice of "Audio Swap". You can choose the length of your video and have YouTube automatically substitute your ILLEGAL music for something that is royalty free! You can choose the genre or the artist. It will [permanently] replace the audio track with legal, royalty free music - just like that! [instructions]

YouTube Audio Swap

Posted by Fred Light - Real Estate Video Tours for MA and NH on 01/03/2009 04:42 PM

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10 Comments on Royalty Free music today keeps the lawyers away!

JAN

Hi Fred - thanks for the tip. I use music that has a creative common license and give the proper credit in my videos, but it's great to know there's another (and easy) resource right on YouTube.

Thanks for sharing this Fred. I always look forward to your blogs, as they are so imformative!

Shawn

JAN

Thanks Fred! That's why I love Active Rain...great tips from the Pros!

JAN

Fred- EXCELLENT post! We preach this all the time in our video seminars. This little "detail" is a HUGE one if overlooked. Good job :-)

Tara: It IS huge - and if you look at real estate videos, I would venture to guess that at least 50% are using OBVIOUSLY copyrighted music! Software is getting very sophisticated to track this stuff down - audio, visual - they can find you if you steal copyrighted music, images, etc.!!!

MAR

Fred - thank you for this post ... even two months later! I found it when searching online for information about royalty free music (thank you Active Rain). It provided exactly the information I needed. Best wishes, Fran and Rowena

I never saw this post but did see the reblog by Fran and Rowena. As I mentioned there I have purchased the license to royalty free music from MusicBakery and Music2Hues over the years and relax in the knowledge that I don't have to worry about that virtual knock on the door. I'm posting this comment here as well in case anyone needs to find good sources.

Don't relax Geri...!

Recently, I've had YouTube and VEOH both dispute videos I have uploaded because of copyright issues. The content is 100% original and the music was licensed and PURCHASED by me (many at a cost of $50-$75 each!) - yet they still made an issue of it. I disputed it and won, but it's still a pain in the @#$#@$. Clearly there is some program in place to recognize what 'they' believe is copyrighted music as the notice comes within minutes after uploading. Still disputing with VEOH, but so far I'm back in YouTube's good graces.

Fred, that's frightening. So even if you do everything right, it can still be disputed? I have a perpetual license to use the music I purchased from both the above company's libraries. I keep a copy of the license information and the original CDs they sent. Is this not enough?

Geri: One would think it would be enough. YouTube disputed 4 videos that used the same song... I disputed it and they agreed it was fine. VEOH? Still waiting to hear from them.

I have the licensing info, etc. on the music, so I just sent it to them.

It's annoying to say the least....

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