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I use royalty-free or Creative Commons content. You can monetize royalty-free or Creative Commons content when the license agreement grants you rights to use it commercially. Sometimes rights owners require you to credit the creator of the content or give proof of purchase to use it in your video for commercial purposes.
Your top music is based on your watch history across all YouTube services. For example, frequently watching your favorite music video on YouTube can impact what you see for your top tracks, artists, playlists, and music videos on your channel page in YouTube Music. Your stats and personal radio are refreshed daily.
If you use music in your video, you may get a Content ID claim telling you that you used copyrighted content. Here's what each policy means: Monetize: The copyright holder has chosen to monetize this music, so ads may appear on your video. Sometimes, the copyright holder may elect to share some of that revenue with you.
Creator Music is a growing catalog of high quality music that creators can use in videos without losing monetization. Some songs can be licensed upfront, allowing creators to retain full monetization. Other songs may be eligible to share revenue with the track’s rights holders. To get started with Creator Music, check out this video:
Open the YouTube Music app from your signed-in account. Select your profile photo Settings. Select Data saving. Switch Don’t play music videos to the on position. You can also listen to full albums regardless of whether some songs in the album have YouTube videos or not.
If you have the rights to use copyright-protected material in your video, give your video’s title and URL to the original copyright owner. This action can help you avoid a mistaken removal or block. If your video was removed by a copyright removal request in error, you can: Request a retraction from the claimant. Submit a counter notification.
If you're a YouTube Music Premium member, you can access your paid membership benefits and music library in the YouTube Music app, even if you're in a country/region where YouTube Music isn't available. Your music library will travel with you for 6 months so you can keep enjoying your listening experience.
With Creator Music, some songs can be licensed, which means creators pay an upfront fee (or no fee for some tracks) to use music in their video and keep the video’s full revenue share.
Fair use on YouTube. Fair use is a legal doctrine that says use of copyright-protected material under certain circumstances is allowed without permission from the copyright holder. YouTube gets many requests to remove videos that copyright holders claim are infringing under copyright law. Sometimes these requests apply to videos that qualify ...
Add collaborators to a playlist. Sign in to YouTube Studio. From the left Menu, select Content. Next to the playlist you want to add collaborators to, click Edit . Below the playlist’s title, click More . Click Collaborate . Click the slider next to “Collaborators can add videos to this playlist". Turn on “Allow new collaborators”.
