Royalty Free Music + Book Trailer+YouTube= Copyright Claim & Forced Ads on Video

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Alan Petersen

Discussion Starter · May 16, 2015

I'm filing this under "I didn't know they could do that" and "I should have read the fine print".

A few months ago I made a book trailer video for my book, She's Gone. I uploaded it to YouTube. I noticed there were ads on it (banner ads embedded into the video). I thought that's strange since I didn't recall turning on the "monetize" video option from my YouTube video management dashboard.

I thought maybe I enabled that feature by mistake since the book trailer is an ad for my book, I don't want other ads displayed on my trailer, so I logged in to shut that off.

Sure enough, I hadn't enabled ads, so what's up? Well that's when I was surprised to learn that the creator of the royalty free music clip filed a copyright claim with YouTube which allows the music to continue to play during my video, but only if ads are displayed with the proceeds of those ads going to that person/company.

The only way I can have ads removed from the video is to have the royalty free music removed. And well, the trailer without music is a bit odd, so Audio Jungle or the music creator (I don't who put the copyright claim in) really have me in a corner about it.

Here is the message that states copyrighted content was found on my video:

And the message that it has been "monetized by the claimant".

YouTube does give you options to dispute the claim. I haven't read the fine print in the terms for using royalty free music, but I would imagine it's in there somewhere in the Audio Jungle terms. So I have to play by their rules or remove the music.

I don't recall receiving any emails from YouTube or Audio Jungle. I just happened to notice the ads on my video and that's how I found out about this interesting wrinkle in the use of royalty free music.

I'm not sure if this common knowledge to you all, but it was news to me, so I thought I would warn those who don't know that using royalty free music that you've purchased legally from Audio Jungle can lead to annoying ad banners on your book trailer.

You can see the forced ads in the trailer here:

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Alan Petersen

Discussion Starter · #2 · May 16, 2015

Looks like it's a YouTube thing. I just went through Audio Jungle's terms and you can use it on YouTube. But YouTube has very aggressive detectors and they shoot first, ask questions later. Audio Jungle even addresses this on their FAQs:

Can I use music from AudioJungle on YouTube? Why have I received a "matched third party content" copyright notice via YouTube about AudioJungle music used on my YouTube video?

Yes, you can absolutely use licensed AudioJungle music in your YouTube video.

YouTube takes copyright infringement seriously, and its Content ID audio detection system will occasionally display a copyright notice on videos using licensed AudioJungle music. This typically isn't a bad thing, it simply means YouTube has found some material in your video that's owned by someone else. To clear this notice, you simply need to let YouTube know that you have licensed the music and have the rights to use it.

For more information and help on clearing a copyright notice please see our Help Center article Buyers Guide to YouTube Content ID & Copyright Notices.

So I should be able to clear this up. Will let you know.

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jdcore

· #3 · May 16, 2015

It's also important to know which license the music is allowed under and that you have followed the protocol. Creative commons has several different versions. Some require a link back to the copyright holder. Some require only attribution. Etc.

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PermaStudent

· #4 · May 16, 2015

I didn't know about this, so thanks for posting! That's actually pretty cool of them to allow a claimant to allow the continued use of their content with ads that pay back to the creator. As someone creating my own ad for my own book, I think I would also be pretty miffed if I saw ads displayed over my trailer that I didn't put there, especially if I had used royalty free music specifically to play by the rules (jdcore is right--might want to check the license details before anything else to be sure).

Please post back how this all turns out.

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Writefast

· #5 · May 16, 2015

Alan Petersen said:
I'm filing this under "I didn't know they could do that" and "I should have read the fine print".

A few months ago I made a book trailer video for my book, She's Gone. I uploaded it to YouTube. I noticed there were ads on it (banner ads embedded into the video). I thought that's strange since I didn't recall turning on the "monetize" video option from my YouTube video management dashboard.

I thought maybe I enabled that feature by mistake since the book trailer is an ad for my book, I don't want other ads displayed on my trailer, so I logged in to shut that off.

Sure enough, I hadn't enabled ads, so what's up? Well that's when I was surprised to learn that the creator of the royalty free music clip filed a copyright claim with YouTube which allows the music to continue to play during my video, but only if ads are displayed with the proceeds of those ads going to that person/company.

The only way I can have ads removed from the video is to have the royalty free music removed. And well, the trailer without music is a bit odd, so Audio Jungle or the music creator (I don't who put the copyright claim in) really have me in a corner about it.

Here is the message that states copyrighted content was found on my video:

And the message that it has been "monetized by the claimant".

YouTube does give you options to dispute the claim. I haven't read the fine print in the terms for using royalty free music, but I would imagine it's in there somewhere in the Audio Jungle terms. So I have to play by their rules or remove the music.

I don't recall receiving any emails from YouTube or Audio Jungle. I just happened to notice the ads on my video and that's how I found out about this interesting wrinkle in the use of royalty free music.

I'm not sure if this common knowledge to you all, but it was news to me, so I thought I would warn those who don't know that using royalty free music that you've purchased legally from Audio Jungle can lead to annoying ad banners on your book trailer.

You can see the forced ads in the trailer here:

Incompetech.com for your music next time. Kevin is a friend and his music is, in most cases, at least as good as what you have there and it is truly royalty free, no strings.

I know this is a too little too late deal, but, you know, for future reference.

Here's a little sample:
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1500011.

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Nathan Elliott

· #6 · May 16, 2015

This may have nothing to do with the actual copyright holder of the music. I had it happen via a totally bogus claim by an unrelated 3rd party. I verified with the composer that he had no relationship with the group that made the claim. YouTube, as far as I could tell, made no attempt to verify that the group filing the claim was in fact the rights holder. However, when I followed YT's dispute process, the problem went away.

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Alan Petersen

Discussion Starter · #7 · May 17, 2015

Nathan Elliott said:
This may have nothing to do with the actual copyright holder of the music. I had it happen via a totally bogus claim by an unrelated 3rd party. I verified with the composer that he had no relationship with the group that made the claim. YouTube, as far as I could tell, made no attempt to verify that the group filing the claim was in fact the rights holder. However, when I followed YT's dispute process, the problem went away.

I got it all sorted it out. It wasn't Audio Jungle or the musician filing the claim. Audio Jungle and/or the musician uses a service called AdRev. It's a content ID audio detection system. The creator of the audio file registers their file with ADRev and their bots monitor to detect if that audio file is playing on YouTube and other places. It pings YouTube and since it's a match, YouTube triggers the "third party match" and embeds the ads into the video.

It would be nice if YouTube would send an email notification first, giving 1-3 days to prove you have a license before adding the ads. Maybe they do send notification and I missed it, but I don't recall seeing it. An email with "copyright claim" in the subject line would have grabbed my immediate attention!

I would imagine it's easier to just file the copyright claim automatically and deal with the disputes to those people who notice and file them.

Since I legally purchased the license for the royalty free music from Audio Jungle, that's what I did. I just had to file a dispute with YouTube. Audio Jungle provides the copy/paste verbiage I need which includes my license number and all that good stuff.

Within 24 hours YouTube removed the copyright claim, so all is good.

Writefast said:
Incompetech.com for your music next time. Kevin is a friend and his music is, in most cases, at least as good as what you have there and it is truly royalty free, no strings.

I know this is a too little too late deal, but, you know, for future reference.

Here's a little sample:
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1500011.

I listened to your friends tracks, very nice. I'll for sure check his tracks next time I need one. Thanks for the heads up.

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