hi it's Patrick here from the GarageBandguide.com in this video I'm gonna
definitively answer one of the most asked questions that I get can I use
loops and sounds from GarageBand in my own projects without any copyright
issues
the short answer is yes yes you can okay okay you can use any of these stock
sounds and loops that come with GarageBand and your own projects
commercial or otherwise found on Apple's support pages the GarageBand software
license agreement States GarageBand software you may use the Apple and
third-party audio contents audio content contained in or otherwise included with
the Apple software on a royalty-free basis to create your own original music
compositions or audio projects you may broadcast and/or distribute your own
music compositions or audio projects that were created using the audio
content however individual audio loops may not be commercially or otherwise
distributed on a standalone basis nor may they be repackaged in whole or in
part as audio samples sound effects or music beds so don't worry you can make
commercial music with GarageBand you just can't distribute the loops as loops
that last part is important don't go packaging up a bunch of
GarageBand loops and reselling them on a dodgy corner of the Internet Tim Cook
will release the hounds on your ass release the hounds
other than that though as Apple States you can use any included sounds and your
music podcasts movies whatever without fear of a crack team of Apple branded
lawyers kicking your front door down in the middle of the night
this does present its own problems though especially if you upload your
projects to YouTube three times now I've had videos that monetized or had a
revenue split and pause on a video because YouTube's copyright algorithm
has matched a look used and one of my videos with one used in some random
artists uploaded song or an artist has flagged one of my videos as including
their copyrighted content well research in this video I check to see if I could
look at historical copyright notices on my channel to include them here and
notice that I actually had a copyright notice active right now on one of my
videos so a screencap the process of filing the dispute as a thought it might
be handy if people going through the same process had a walkthrough to refer
to Here I am in the back end of my channel and with the copyright notices
tab clicked you can see there's a video here that has been flagged as including
copyrighted content clicking through takes me to the screen which outlines
the content matched video and who has made the claim also we are exactly in
the video the content matches and I can click that to listen
well it's the same bloody music all the way through so I'm not sure why these
timestamps are specified that is in fact a track I put together a few years ago
to serve as backing music for videos using you guessed it loops from garage
bands a loop browser here I can choose to accept that I'm in the wrong and
remove song which will mute the video at least specified timestamps which I'm not
going to do or I can file a dispute which I'll click no on this page
selecting the content is in the public domain or not eligible for copyright
protection is the way to go YouTube will then double check you're sure you want
to go ahead with the disputes you are then asked to briefly explain the reason
for your disputes and take a bunch of boxes to proceed I'll take the same sort
of thing I have in the past explaining that the matched music comes from garage
bands and that all content is royalty-free
I'll copy and pasted GarageBand license agreements and here too for them so that
definitely won't be any confusion but that all done you can see on the videos
page that it's marked as dispute in process so if we go and check out the
video that has the same sample in it that is apparently copyrighted and this
is mark Maslow Capital One DME our key formal
audiobook that's bizarre I could see it has 225 dislikes and zero
likes okay oh wow Wow I told her I don't think I'm the first person to have
issues with these guys anyway the douchebag claimants have 30 days to
respond if they don't respond within that time the claim has dropped and
everything goes back to normal they can also drop the claim with in the 30 days
- if they choose to you if they decide to challenge the dispute though really
why would the Apple make their position on the use of their content very clear
things get a bit more complicated thankfully I've personally never had a
claim and challenge one of my disputes so the moral of this long badly told
muddled story is this feel free to use Apple loops and sounds and your own
projects without fear that Apple will sue your ass but be prepared to perhaps
deal with nonsense like this knowing again have you ever had to deal with any
copyright issues like this on YouTube or otherwise regarding your music or
regarding content use of garage bands leave a comment and let me know I've
been Patrick from the GarageBandguide.com and I'll see you next time bye for
now