If you’re a YouTuber or online content creator, you’ve probably heard the phrase “copyrighted music” a lot by now. You may have even come up against the dreaded copyright claim, where YouTube unceremoniously blocks you from keeping your ad revenue for a video, or even removes it from the platform entirely – bummer. Though copyright is a much misunderstood and complicated thing, you don’t need to be a lawyer to understand the basics. We’ll give you a rundown here, so that you know how to get music for YouTube videos without running into YouTube Content ID trouble.
Music licensing platform, Lickd, negotiates with artists and labels ahead of time, gets affordable rates, and makes it easy to find and license songs. Samantha can browse Lickd’s catalog of over 1 million songs, find what she wants and use it, with no Content ID claim to worry about. This is Samantha’s best option for freely using great music and building a YouTube channel she can be proud of.
So to end our story, that’s what our friend Samantha does now. She uses Lickd! And you can too! For more information read our beginners guide to YouTube music policies, how to legally use copyrighted music on YouTube and how to avoid copyright claims on YouTube.