YouTube Content ID / Facebook Rights Manager Eligibility Requirements
What music can I distribute to YouTube Content ID and Facebook Rights Manager?
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 — 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
