How to get music for Youtube videos?
YouTube is the most popular video sharing websites where most people enjoy watching absolutely free videos of any kind. The video content publishers, I mean those that have Youtube account can upload videos that they have made in order to be publicly viewable and hoping to get attention and popularity among Youtube viewers.There are a lot of easy ways you can create your own video to be uploaded to Youtube. One of it is using Windows movie maker which is included in Windows installation. When it comes to creating videos it will be straightforward as you are holding your own camera, save it and edit in Windows Movie Maker.
It will start to be complicated when you are deciding to add music to your Youtube videos. It is not a problem if you are creating your own music composition. It will be complicated if you are adding music created from other individuals. This includes popular songs you heard in the radio or a piece of music you like in a movie. Most important rule: If you use music to be included in the You Tube video you have created, you should contact the music publisher and ask for permission.
Another question will now be: How do I able to contact the music publisher? Read these two tutorials:
How to get permission to use copyrighted music?
Licensing Music for your website: Short tips and Guide
It is much better to get this permission in advance before adding the music together with your videos. So that you will not be re-editing the videos in case the permission is not granted. You can send them a short mail like:
Hi <Music publisher name>,
I have researched and you are the music publisher of <song title> by <artist name>, I would like to use your song in my Youtube video project name: <Project name>. It is about: <Insert project details>.
Is it OK? Or if there are other terms/requirements that I need to comply, please give me a feedback. Hoping for a positive response, thanks.
Sincerely,
<Your name>
What will you do if permission is granted to use the music? The next thing you will need is to continue adding the music to your newly created videos. And then, upload that video to Youtube and in the description, indicate the license of the music:
Music used with permission from: <Insert music publisher name here>
Credits:
Title: <Song title>
Author: <Author>
Artist: <Artist name>
Website: <Website URL of the music publisher>, a link to the website is recommended.Following this method, you are using music legally with your Youtube videos. Failure to follow means that, sooner or later Youtube will disable the audio track of your video, as you can see often with other videos.
