I'll try to make this short to not waste too much of your time.
I've been putting out some CS:GO content for a couple months on youtube and when I started off editing I would put little end clips on my youtube videos with random music playing. Quite frankly most of the music if not all of it I do not have permission to use but I feel it adds to the video and I like editing it into videos. I could go the one route and just use remixes and unpopular songs on my videos in hopes that I wont get take downs but
what constitutes fair use when it comes to music?
I already have one strike for uploading a song titled Drake - Legend (Chris McClenney Remix) while my video was taken down the same song is uploaded here titled Chris McClenney - Legendary the only difference between my original upload and this guys was that mine was uploaded in Music part of youtube with my title and his to people and blogs with his. So am I wrong for not seeing the consistency here?
Here are some examples of things I've used in videos.
Even as far as monetizing these videos should I just not monetize them if I'm able to "get around" youtubes detecting system and just hope my channel doesn't get three strikes?
I feel stunted when it comes to editing videos if I'm unable to add in music I think relates to the clip or even a funny moment from a movie that adds to it in some way. Should I just remove all the videos where I've used music and small video clips? Maybe move to something like "Vid.me"
I'm not looking for an excuse to upload copyrighted content but I just don't know where my editing style fits in as far as youtube and copyright is concerned. I just don't want to put so much effort into something only to just get a couple strikes one day and poof there goes my account. Thanks for your time.
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Thanks for doing this ama /u/VideoGameAttorney.
I'll try to make this short to not waste too much of your time.
I've been putting out some CS:GO content for a couple months on youtube and when I started off editing I would put little end clips on my youtube videos with random music playing. Quite frankly most of the music if not all of it I do not have permission to use but I feel it adds to the video and I like editing it into videos. I could go the one route and just use remixes and unpopular songs on my videos in hopes that I wont get take downs but
what constitutes fair use when it comes to music?
I already have one strike for uploading a song titled Drake - Legend (Chris McClenney Remix) while my video was taken down the same song is uploaded here titled Chris McClenney - Legendary the only difference between my original upload and this guys was that mine was uploaded in Music part of youtube with my title and his to people and blogs with his. So am I wrong for not seeing the consistency here?
Here are some examples of things I've used in videos.
At 1:11 I use a matrix clip (out of fear of it getting taken down I put noise on the audio and really altered the movie clip)
At 0:41 I use a clip from a Metallica song "four horsemen" (again out of fear of getting take down I alter the audio clip)
At 0:36 again used a song "crossfire"
At 0:41 I use a DMX song
The list goes on...
Even as far as monetizing these videos should I just not monetize them if I'm able to "get around" youtubes detecting system and just hope my channel doesn't get three strikes?
I feel stunted when it comes to editing videos if I'm unable to add in music I think relates to the clip or even a funny moment from a movie that adds to it in some way. Should I just remove all the videos where I've used music and small video clips? Maybe move to something like "Vid.me"
I'm not looking for an excuse to upload copyrighted content but I just don't know where my editing style fits in as far as youtube and copyright is concerned. I just don't want to put so much effort into something only to just get a couple strikes one day and poof there goes my account. Thanks for your time.
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