So where do you find good music for your videos, that's legally used
So you can put ads on it and what's all this copyright stuff about?
That's what we're gonna talk about in this video.
Welcome to Video Influencers, it's another episode for your entertainment
And education.
Today we're gonna be talking about music, where to get it
and why it's important to understand the rules around copyright
And how it affects you as a video creator.
Sean!
- So yeah.
I love that we're
Talking about this and this question comes in all the time.
'Cause it's very
Confusing, it's a challenging area and we do need to say off the bat that we
Actually are not lawyers and when it comes to really copyright law, definitely
Always consider everything and don't treat this advice on this video as legal.
Stay on the safe side and do your own research for sure - Yeah, definitely
Do your own research, this isn't legal advice.-But saying that we have been doing
This for a lot of years and so we've dealt with a lot of different copyright
Music.
And the challenge is this.
You cannot just, either number one just
Take any song you want and put it on your video and put it on the internet.
Now a lot of people do, but a lot of times even that sentence you're already
In legal territory where that's illegal use of music.
But the second thing is what
People really wanna do, is they wanna put ads on their music because they wannna
Monetize their videos and they want, their videos are taken down and things
Like that.
Or they want to use something for like a brand.
So if you're a business
Owner and you're using your video for like a website or something for that's
Branded, you also have to be very sensitive about music, so the reality is pretty
Much that you cannot just take a Bruno Mars song or a Taylor Swift and just
Shake it off and put it in your video.
You need to actually find the right
Music and that's royalty free or that's free and so there's a couple great
Opportunities and options for that.
Do you have any other thoughts?
Yeah, I would say that you know the law respects creator's products right?
So they will protect their right to be able to get the royalties they deserve.
And the reason this is important is because, especially for a Youtube channel.
You can get shut down.
Not only the video but the channel can get shut
Down if you break to many copyright guidelines right?
So that's really
Important to understand because you don't really wanna just start off,
Make all this great content and then find yourself having your channel
Deleted.
Judy, which is my wife, she's also a Youtuber, itsjudytime.com.
When she first started Youtube she used copied music left and right and
What happened was about two years later all those videos lost all the
Audio and Youtube automatically put some automatic song over the top of
It and it affected a lot of her videos.
So now that's not happening anymore,
They'll just shut your video down right from the get go.
But that's just a story
To I guess educate you on what could happen.
So you wanna set yourself
Up in the best way possible with the music you use and air on the safe side
Every time you utilize any kind of audio.
- Yep, yep.
And so we wanna go
Through a couple of sites that are awesome opportunities for music that
Is legal or that is free and what's some of your options or even paid options
For that and the first one is the Youtube Music Library - Awesome, awesome.
Now, you may have heard about that, maybe you haven't, but if you simply
Search, you're logged into your Youtube channel and you search the Youtube
Music Library, they have a whole library of music that is free to use and that
You can use in your videos and monetize it.
In fact we just shot a video
Called Interview With a Two Year Old and the music in that video is from
The Youtube Library.
Now in the past even for me, I love music and I think it's
So important that a lot of the really free stuff just wasnt very good but
The reality is the stuff on there is pretty good.
So you can listen through it,
You can download it and you can use it.
They give you like open handed
Rights to use it when you're gonna make money of the video that you're
Producing.
So that's an awesome opportunity.
We will post links of everything
That we talk about in the descriptions so that you can check those out, but
That is probably the first one.
- Definitely.
Before Youtube was giving awesome
Music, Judy and I we were using Software.
So our editing Software would
Provide not just sound effects but actual full songs like cuts, you know.
Not
As good as the Youtube music but still it's a resource that you can use so
Whatever editing software you utilize, we utilized a lot of the Apple ones.
Check out the music that they have and typically you still wanna find out
Yourself, those are royalty free cuts.
So that's another resource that you
Could use to get music for your videos Was that iMovie?
iMovie and
Final Cut Pro.
- Okay.
Awesome so that's another one.
The next one is
We will just put a list of the blog that I wrote up as well as some other
Things that we found, that are some free options in the description.
The key is that you read them and you read what you're allowed to do,
What you're not allowed to do any particular site, in some cases there's
A creative commons kind of licensed to it.
It's free but, you actually can
Use it but if they were to find it and here's the biggest thing.
You don't
Wanna get caught later where you've got a video out, especially the
Successful video and the you know wrong people catch it or the people
That discover it and you've gotta take your video down or something
Happens.
And so we're putting these free options down there.
And
Then the other thing is that one of the problems with the Youtube Library
Or even a lot of the free stuff is either the Youtube library, a lot of people
Are gonna be using it and the free stuff, usually the quality isn't very good.
And so then you get to this area if you wanna stand out, you wanna create
A strong brand, sound, everything about your video is important and if
It's important to you to stand out, you might wanna move into some paid
Options.
-Cause that's gonna get you some exclusivity.
My personal favorite
Right now is called Audio Jungle and that's a part of a whole family of sites
And so Audio Jungle is a phenomenal site, probably my favorite with
Songs ranging from about 15 dollars for a goof royalty free song but
Like that's pro level.
It's got some really good sound to it.
Another thing
That I've seen people do is they will get some loop software and
If you're pretty good at music or if you can just put some software
Together you can make your own music.
Now before that sounds intimidating
I'm not a musician but I can kind of just assemble simple loops.
It's kind
Of like can you play guitar in a garage band or Guitar Hero.
Can you
Play Guitar Hero.
You know, can you play those Dj games.
There's some
Software like that because if you create yourself out of some loops you
Could do it that way as well.
- You know I would say whether it's free resources
Or paid resources something you have to consider and this is something from
Our years of experience that I've learned.
Being able to use it for one of your
Videos is one thing, but being able to use it for one of your videos commercially,
So where you're making money.
See that's just one example of something
You have to understand and you have to read the fine print, even when
You're buying the paid songs like the songs where you actually pay money
To be able to use some of them won't actually let you use them commercially.
Or you were even telling me for like photos for example like how many
Exposures can it get you know?
And it can get pretty crazy so that's why
It's always going the safe route, utilizing the resources that you know on a
Broad level that people are utilizing.
Whether it's Youtube which I think
Is the best resource or like editing software.
Another thing that we
Should talk about before we forget is relationships, people that you
Know because what do artists want more than anything at the beginning
Of their career?
- They wanna get exposure and so you'd be surprised.
And you've done this and I've done this a lot and I've built, in fact
Everything we've built around Thinking International was out of
Relationships with independent labels with different people.
Now the key with relationships is your simply doing this, you're finding
Other people.
- Artists.
- And the key is, you can't go.
- And music creators.
Yeah and you can't Tweet Taylor Swift and get rights to her music.
It's not gonna happen at that level, but there's probably some indie
Creators, some Youtubers, maybe some hip hop beat makers or some
Different people.
- Even friends.
- Even friends, yeah that you can
Collaborate with.
- And that would gladly let you use their music.
Yeah.
So who could you just e-mail and ask.
Don't be afraid to just
Go for it.
If they see your content and you're like Hey, I would love to
Use some of your misc or cite you on the video or put your
Information in the Youtube description or Tweet about you or
Do that kind of stuff.
Create and carve out some relationships.
And I wanted to talk about on the paid thing too.
Another site that I
Thought of is called The Music Bed.
- Yeah, pretty good one.
And one
Of the biggest things that, specifically wedding photographers, but
I know nonprofits, churches, wedding photographers, businesses, that's
A good site and those songs are at a whole other lever.
Like documentary
Film type songs.
- We've used it on a couple of projects - We have.
In
Fact your wedding video that I did, for your original wedding video was
Songs from the Music Bed.
And nowadays, it was actually cheaper back then,
It was about 50 dollars a song now it's up to about 150.
But what's cool
About that site, in fact just go there and just check out.
Go to the process
As if you are gonna completely download a song.
What's cool is that it
Lets you select how it's gonna be used.
Is it online only or are you gonna
Burn DVDs, are you gonna sell it, how many people are gonna see it.
And you check all the boxes and then it actually tells you how much
It would cost.
And so that is kind of some helpful tips for education.
Here's what we're gonna do, we're gonna put some stuff in the
Youtube Description 'cause this is something that, it literally kind of
Seems complex, don't get overwhelmed, don't worry about it, start
With something simple like the Youtube Library where you know
You're all good an then build into it if you need to expand from there,
Check out extra bonus links and stuff in the Youtube as well as some of the
Show notes that we forgot in the Youtube description.
- Yeah, to sum it
Up.
Artists want their music to get out there.
It's just there's a lot of
Legalities, so don't be scared by a lot of the things that we're disclosing,
That you'll find out about copyright law.
Just understand that you need to
Go about it in the right way and be aware of what you need to know to
Properly use music and then you'll be good.
So thanks so much for checking
Out this video and check out other links and stuff in the Youtube description.
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