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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 a week 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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