You can now monetize song covers WITHOUT a partnership

[markkaz]

So your saying perhaps every youtuber whos not part of a network is now officialy to create cover songs with out worrying of getting a copyright strike????

I haven't seen complete details. Record companies are notorious for not being willing to negotiate. However, with YouTube having a music delivery service coming in 2014, maybe YouTube has negotiated rights with all of the big players. More info here:

http://www.tubefilter.com/2013/12/04/youtube-music-pass-service-q1-2014/

 

[Ehzool]

I say wait until more info is provided, im with fullscreen but with vlog union within fullscreen, i believe the way it works is that in order to be allowed to use certain songs in your video then you must be part of the fam network and only be allowed to cover songs in which the list provides you with, unless this is a new update and im wrong, when did you get this notice? Because i havent seen any notice from fullscreen regarding that in my email... only the monetization review notice, and also when you say, doez that mean we dont need fullscreen, if what your saying is true then i guess thats cool, but then you wont be making any earnings once your out of the network, unless you want to sing for fun, and it is allowed, and not earn any cash then go for it, but do some more research first, because you can get copyright strike on your account and have to attend copyright school, happen to me once.....

I think you miss the whole idea. The article is saying you can make money from your covers without Fullscreen. Just 100% youtube.


I guess the only things we need to figure out are
1) Will YouTube release a list of coverable/monetizable songs or will we just have to guess?
2) If they do release a list, is it 100% guaranteed that our video won't have any issues getting monetized?

 

[Gabriel]

So your saying perhaps every youtuber whos not part of a network is now officialy to create cover songs with out worrying of getting a copyright strike????

Who knows, I've never heard of people who make cover videos get copyright strikes to be honest they just get slammed with Content ID claims every cover video they make.

We don't know yet who and how many music partners are going to enroll in this so we just have to wait and see for more details from YouTube on the matter.

 

[Daniel]

Interesting, as @markkaz suggested, it is possibly due to something relating to YouTube's music service launching next year.

 

[Tarmack]

About god damned time. Welcome to how the rest of the music world works. Now YouTube, arrange for online use licenses to be bought through the RIAA (or whatever your local equivalent is) so we can stop f*****g around with this copyright nonsense.

See, the thing about how music works in the real world is that you pay to use content. Royalties. If you run a radio station for example, you pay a license fee based on the amount of money you make. They don't pay a fee every time a song plays. In Canada, I could pay for a license to stream music which gives me the legal right to stream essentially anything as streaming is basically just online radio regardless of where the viewer was located. Unfortunately, Twitch.TV would still get grumpy at me doing that even though I'd paid for the right to do it. The US has the same rule structure.

If YouTube would incorporate an option into it's interface to pay royalties when copyrighted content was used it would drop this whole damn issue like a dubstep beat.

 

[markkaz]

@Daniel

On a related note, I would love to feature artist's music on some of my presentations but with the current rules, 100% of the ad revenue of that video goes to the artist. If they had a revenue share model, I would be much more inclined to participate and promote artists.

 

[Tarmack]

@Daniel

On a related note, I would love to feature artist's music on some of my presentations but with the current rules, 100% of the ad revenue of that video goes to the artist. If they had a revenue share model, I would be much more inclined to participate and promote artists.

There was a comment along these lines from a raher large YouTuber as well. He does 3 hour long podcasts. One got third party automatched for something along the lines of a 15 second snippet from a game trailer that wasn't even fullscreened at the time. As a result, clearly according to YouTube, the revenue for that 3 hour video obviously belongs to the owner of the trailer. heh.

 

[Wreckless Eating]

Most of what I've heard about this dates back to Maker and Fullscreen's deal with UMPG. YouTube followed up and negotiated their own deal, but didn't release any details. I'd guess that the music service is a completely separate deal and that YouTube has been working on a deal with publishers to allow monetization (you won't get the full 55% because you're revenue sharing with publishers) of certain cover songs. Much like Fullscreen/Maker, don't expect them to release a full catalog at once-it will be rolled out slowly over time.

 

[warrenemusic]

This is great if it happens! I have alot of Content ID matches on my videos, but the other day i saw a link saying that i might be able to monetize it. I clicked the button, and it went to the video edit page but it didnt allow me to monetize. So hopefully this happens.[DOUBLEPOST=1386665893,1386663673][/DOUBLEPOST]screen captured and put together what i've seen on my music channel

 

[Peter]

This is great if it happens! I have alot of Content ID matches on my videos, but the other day i saw a link saying that i might be able to monetize it. I clicked the button, and it went to the video edit page but it didnt allow me to monetize. So hopefully this happens.[DOUBLEPOST=1386665893,1386663673][/DOUBLEPOST]screen captured and put together what i've seen on my music channel

As far as I know they ask whether you have permission from the original artist or not.