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So today I went to go browse the YouTube copyright regulations for music, because I have interest in developing some video productions for said place.
For most of what I had in mind, I wanted to use my own music (kinda lame - don't ask), or just some free sound effects. But I also had interest in doing some music videos with amazingly awesome catchy tunes. And I would offer the latter for free - no monetization where I would make a bunch of kickback from YouTube's ad system.
I got a bunch of conflicting information that really didn't tell me too much, except for one universal theme: This is too hard. Don't do this.
Which confuses me. Because if I actually go to YouTube, I see a freaking ton of lyric videos of songs by major artists. There is like 10 lyric videos for 1 Kelly Clarkson song. It is absurd. None of those people get blasted with content ID matches and copyright claims and strikes. And I'm willing to bet that most of them did not get in contact with a record label (one source said that this was a convoluted procedure, and another said that different artists with different labels could collaborate on a song, making the whole thing an expensive legal mess) and possibly pay a bunch of money (estimates of how much ranged from dirt cheap to ridiculously expensive).
I mean, come on, Glove and Boots must do it somehow. They freaking got PSY Gangnam style footage in their video and Pomplamoose and played "Beautiful". They didn't get hit with copyright infringement, and they're a pretty prominent channel. And it's strongly implied that the creators of said show aren't trust fund babies that can afford to shell out a pretty penny for a song.
Either labels are really lax about copyright infringement, or something is up here. And it's irritating to the few of us who would actually want to try to do the things by the book to avoid getting our videos taken down, our accounts struck and banned, and lawsuits.
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