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YouTube Content ID / Facebook Rights Manager Eligibility Requirements
YouTube Content ID / Facebook Rights Manager Eligibility Requirements

What music can I distribute to YouTube Content ID and Facebook Rights Manager?

Updated over 10 months ago

Ensure that any release you distribute to YouTube Content ID or Facebook Rights Manager is appropriate for those services; namely that it doesn't fall into one of the following categories:

  • Has any samples or 3rd party beats (in other words, it's not 100% original β€” regardless of whether it has a valid license or not).

  • Contains sound effects, soundbeds, or production loops from a software package.

  • Includes non-distinct recording such as nature or wildlife sounds, street noise, ambient sounds.

  • Remix that isn't significantly different from the original.

  • Karaoke versions.

  • A variation of a sound recording that has already been distributed to YouTube Content ID or Facebook Rights Manager. For example:

    • an instrumental version

    • a remaster

    • a shorter/longer version (for example a medley or a concert version where the sound recording is not significantly different from the one previously distributed to YouTube Content ID or Facebook Rights Manager)

  • Sound-alike or a cover song that sounds too close to the original (you can determine this by Shazaming your track; if Shazam indicates the original version, then your track sounds too much like the original).

  • Classical music recording of a composition in the public domain.

  • Meditation, yoga, or sleep music.

  • DJ set, a continuous mix, or other similar compilations.

  • Video gameplay footage.

  • on music content such as (but not limited to):

    • comedy recordings

    • film recordings (that are not the musical score to a film)

    • speeches

    • prayer recordings

    • audiobooks

    • podcasts

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