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Is YouTube themselves working with to clear this music? Is it marked in YouTube's ContentID system somehow? Some artists have had copyright strikes placed against THEM for one of their original songs because someone else used their song (with permission) and then had YT's ContentID mark the other publisher as the owner.

It has got to be a slap in the face to generously offer your art for this use, only to be punished for doing so. Especially with the only way to deal with it is with a tone-deaf automated system.

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Since the music is generated with the 3 custom sliders which you can change over time, I wonder how often YT would even detect a match? How often would people use similar-enough parameters of similar-enough parts that it would seem to be the same?

I think what irritates me the worst is that as far as I have been able to tell, there's no way to inform YouTube that you have written permission or a license. Some people just have privilege to not be Content ID stricken, and other people have to appeal when they inevitably do get hit.

Correct, it's guilty until proven innocent, and bad actors can initiate the content strike seemingly without much effort (at least it was this way a few months ago; not sure if YT fixed this).

I assume this is just because it's something you have to manually intervene on - as soon as you have that feature, tons of intentional violators will submit faked documents claiming they do have rights, and those have to be verified somehow.

I'm not saying that's a valid justification, but I imagine it's the thought process.

It's not uncommon for nefarious people to contentid swaths of music/sound effects that have been released for use on YouTube or otherwise.

Then you have to dispute it while they take the ad revenue and let the clock run out.

Totally agree - Content creators shouldn't have to be penalised unjustly for stuff like that. We (Filmstro) as the publishers decide if and where to collect royalty income. In the case of Youtube we made the decision not to register our music for royalties with Youtube - Which means, you won't have ANY issues with 'permissions' and ContentID marks :)

Until someone registers their video including the same music...

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