If you have a question: “how to check music for copyright on YouTube,” one of these methods will definitely help you.
For personal use: converters will help
The first thing we’d like to tell you is the following: if you simply want to turn videos into audio files to listen to them in your spare time, you don’t have to do anything to check copyright, etc.
For example, you have found interesting educational videos, or series of audiobooks, etc. To enjoy listening to them, you need to convert them to MP3 and download them. YouTube to MP4 Downloader will help you with it. We recommend oDownloader: it is quick and easy to use. All you have to do is insert a link to a video you need.
If you want to utilize audio or music for non-personal purposes, checking copyright is required not to face troubles afterward.
Why do I need to check a song’s license?
To use the songs, you need the consent of the author. Except for non-copyrighted or Creative Commons music. But how do you check if a song is copyrighted? This is what we will find out now.
YouTube sound library
The music library is hosted at YouTube Creative Studio. It has two sections: “free music” (more than 100 thousand audio compositions) and “terms of use of music.” The “free music” section has a search by genre, mood, and duration. By choosing a song from all this volume of music, you can freely use it for your videos or other purposes.
Using the “Music Terms of Use” section, you can check the availability of a license for popular tracks, as well as the restrictions on the composition set by the author: prohibition of monetization, blocking of videos (in different countries), channel strike. After that, you can already decide whether to use this song.
Advantages
- The accuracy of finding a license equals 100%.
- Search time – up to 5 seconds.
Disadvantages
- Since May 2020, YouTube has removed the “Music Terms of Use” section.
How to use
- Go to YouTube Creative Studio. In the sidebar on the left, go to the “Music Library” page.
- In the “free music” section, select a track to your taste. In the section “sound effects,” we choose effects for transitions and high-quality imitation of sounds.
- Download the audio to your computer by clicking the button on the right.
Block “Music from this video”
Like any other resource using copyrighted content, YouTube is obliged to indicate the title of the work, the author, the grantor of the license, and additional information about the composition. Therefore, a video that has licensed music will, in most cases, have a piece of music from this video block.
But it all depends on the type of license, the strictness of the author, as well as on the use of the audio track. From this, we can make the conclusion that the information under the video does not always have such a block available. However, if this block is not present or the desired song is not present in it, one cannot say that the music is not copyrighted.
Advantages
- Accuracy is about 70%.
- It is possible to find remixes and covers.
- Instant verification.
Disadvantages
- 30% deviation from finding.
- It doesn’t show in which country it is blocked.
How to use
- Find the desired song on YouTube. Go to the description block and click on the “More” button. At the very bottom, after the description for the video, there is a block “Music from this video.”
- If this block is present, then the music is licensed.
Uploading video
Every blogger was faced with the fact that after uploading a video, it received a complaint about the use of copyright for a song. This is the saddest situation for YouTubers, but you can benefit from it. People should check music for copyright before uploading a video. To do this, save a song in mp4 format and upload it to YouTube. After downloading and processing, we can be 100% sure whether it is possible to use the song for our own purposes.
Advantages
- Accuracy of finding equals 100%.
- It shows in which country the particular piece of music is blocked.
- It is possible to find remixes and covers.
Disadvantages
- It takes about 10 minutes to check one song.
How to use
- Find a video with the desired song on YouTube. Save it in .mp4 format
- Go to the Creative Studio YouTube. Upload the video. Publish it with limited access.
- After full processing, we receive information about the presence or absence of a complaint from the author.
Hopefully, we were helpful to you. Good luck!