Friday, April 22, 2022

How to avoid copyright claim on concert video n background music

 'It's really frustrating when you have to remove the audio or sound from your video because of the background music or song playing in the back ground. This normally happen when you are recording video in a public space or your little brother in the next room was playing his Metallica Black album at full volume while you are in the middle of doing your unboxing video.

You may also like to upload your favourite live concert as memory but you might get copyright claim and risking your monetization application to be rejected or you will be sharing revenue with those giant production houses.

So,how do you go around this.

I uploaded a concert video a couple of months ago and it get copyright claim right away after I published it...so now I'm sharing revenue from that video. It was the Air Supply concert I went to two years ago...you can see the video HERE



And then...few weeks ago, I uploaded a Judas Priest concert that I went to about 2 years ago and it was fine! No copyright claims and I keep the full revenue.
So I uploaded another video of me riding a mechanical bull in a Country Music Festival near my hometown with country songs(of course) playing in the background...and it was fine too! Watch the Judas Priest concert video HERE and the 'rodeo' video is HERE .
 



So...what did I do different that make it 'untraceable' by the bot(at least till now).

Well...it was simpe!

During the editing of those videos, I changed the speed of those videos to 0.95 time. Slow enough to avoid the audio print detection on that video but at the same time not too slow that can cause the sound and the voice distorted like a robot running out of power.

Almost every produced song and music has something called 'audio print' that submitted by the production/record company to the library or the archive of Google,which own Youtube. The bots will trace and detect the uploads of this music and sound base on this 'audioprint'. And Youtube will make a claim on behalf of the company or their agents.
You can use the copy right free music from YT Studio sound library but normally they dont have your favourite songs and most of the songs there have been used trillion times by other channels.

So...do you still have that video of Spice Girls concert that you went to 23 years ago?