Special thanks to Dashlane for sponsoring this video: https://www.dashlane.com/emplemon

This one took two months but I'm gonna try to get the next one out much sooner, stay tuned!

One of the best videos you’ve ever done.

The pacing and music in particular

In my opinion, this is the greatest video you have ever made!

8:37, name of video with the frowning guy used?

I think that Brother Bear video was taken out

Or it’s just a good soundtrack cus it’s the best one

Thanks for the vid now I know why so many people use the hotline Miami soundtrack

It works, I haven't received any copyright strikes

Psst, you should research how “steganography” works. When the RIAA tried to kill youtube-dl (until a few days ago was restored), people have found ways to distribute the software similar to the DECSS, by disguise them into different files. You can do that as a method of preserving your videos on 3rd party platforms to steer clear from the copyright holder's faulty algorithm (it isn't content ID, it is either an organization who monitors for pirated content to notify the copyright holders).

In the meantime, can you make a video about DRM and section 1201? This is the other problem with the DMCA, relating to technological restrictions.

YouTube: " <b>NOW THIS IS AN AVENGERS LEVEL THREAT!!!</b> "

YouTube: " *NOW THIS IS AN AVENGERS LEVEL THREAT!!!* "

What does PasteBin actually do to make music get Avoided

Ironically these weren't converted to 8-bit, they always WERE 8-bit songs.

Another good set of music to use is some 8-bit album from the artist "fearofdark".

If I was a famous producer then idc smuggle my video all you want go crazy. Make art.

Thanks to you Emp, you saved my channel and my vids. You deserve a medal and be recognized as a hero.

Coppa is a thing emplemon please spread the word.

EmpLemon would you be so kind as to respond to them dm I sent on IG?

Squid's Water Park I think it’s Vegas Pro but don’t quote me

youtube can take down who they deem "not comercially viable", watch out they might attack u

hello sir, i see your tf2 references, thanks for playing this half dead game

I made my musical videos with copyrighted stuff, only have claimed two times.

what editing software do you use? i'm just starting out.

Is there a place I CAN watch your YTP? It's a real shame they removed them, its history.

EmpLemon oh good I was worried that you got two lame old ads on this whole ass video


As a channel who’s been posted a lot of copyrighted content for years now, I guess I’ll pitch in and tell what I have learned:

I’ve never been a fan of royalty-free music (hate it, in fact), so I’ve found some good alternative sources for copyright-free music:
-Video game soundtracks (almost always claim free, rare exceptions)
-Mixtapes (Most times claim free, if it’s not on Spotify, that’s a good sign)
-Bootlegs/unreleased demos (most times copyright free, good luck finding them though)
-Remixes/covers/fan recreations/instrumentals (Sometimes works, risky, works better for songs that aren’t super well known)
-some songs slowed down actually sound better (especially if it’s a genre like Drill and Bass)
-Some ‘self-released’ music isn’t copyrighted on YouTube (such as music by Lil Ugly Mane)
-Live versions of songs (Sometimes works if the live performance you use isn’t very well known, Peel sessions are also great for this)

Generally, if a song posted on youtube is copyrighted, you can look at the bottom of the video description and you will often see a song listed (this doesn’t apply if you’re on an [Artist - Topic] channel, when a song gets copyrighted on YouTube, those videos are automatically uploaded)

Now, as I am a channel that deals in sports content, that’s an area I’ll also cover:

NFL - at least 15-20 seconds and your video will be claimed within a week, if not, right away
MLB/NBA/NHL - In my experience, if it’s not claimed right away it most likely won’t get claimed at all (be careful with NBA though, channels that post full highlights of games have been known to get terminated)
College Football - At least 10 seconds and you’re claimed within 24 hours, case sensitive though, as multiple different companies own the broadcast rights to college football, so sometimes you may never get claimed.
International sports (such as Soccer and Olympics) - Extremely case sensitive, don’t know much about this field as I do not post it often.
Sports shows (such as Sports Center) - If you post full top 10 countdowns, your channel can get terminated (RIP Mespin & TheMagicMan), but if you include a short bit of a countdown, your video will most likely not get claimed.

You almost never receive full-on copyright strikes for uploading sports broadcast clips. Unless, of course, you upload the full broadcasts.

"good luck finding them though"

Soulseek is your friend.

_"good luck finding them though"_

Soulseek is your friend.

Once i posted a video replacing Atack on Titan opening music with NFL Theme and the video got blocked,no one could see it except for me

Most good royalty free music is synth led imo

A few royalty free tracks I really like (and actually listen to at times):

Eternity and On the Cool Side by Kevin McLeod (both are used by Andy Hoops very well).

Joker (type in Joker Copyright free music and you’ll see a video with a sailboat thumbnail, used by Jonny Arnett for if the MVP went to the best player in the 2000’s for instance).

As well as

Golden Hour, Menories with You, In My Clouds, By the Pool, Good Morning, Overjoyed, Chill Day, and Saturdays (all by Lakey Inspired and all but the latter have been used by Rusty Buckets).

Royalty Free music can be bland, but it also can provide a great compliment.

There's a lot of really good epic and intense royalty free music, but it is impossible to find anything in any other genres (unless its literally classical and in the public domain) that's good.

And this is why I sample video game music for hip hop beats.

Untitled Name Gang Alt Personal Account sub to main

Savage Brick Sports :  I love your shit dude.

Still, for some of these, I heard people get their ''vaporwave'' claimed, because some of the obscure sourced songs have copyright or they are already parodying another song. tricky subject.

Edit: Some of the stuff I said in this comment was already explained in the video, maybe I shouldn’t stop at 15 minutes in to type my comment, whoops


ssshhhhh don't tell people about my videogame music exploit

@nek snek🐍 pikachu would be bad all it is is fast

This is the crossover youtuber event we didnt know we needed.  TierZoo and Emp.

when he mentioned videogame music, my mind instantly went to TierZoo and kirby soundtrack

@Isa Khelil Pikachu is a mouse that can casually create thunderbolts. I think they'd place pretty high

i would like to know pikachus place in the meta

Ok Mr. Just uses the track Adrenaline by Jack Wall from BO2.

VGM actually makes sense considering you usually talk about the natural world in the context of a giant MMO.

I forgot that youtubers know about each other

TierZoo They really give your videos some of that special something.


I used the content ID system to identify a song for a buddy. Couldn't find it on shazam, so uploaded the audio to youtube and within an hour got claimed.

I tried this but no success… :( the video is still up if anyone can help

I saw this posted before, it's a common thing apparently

Modern problems require modern solutions

that means you could just ID it using the google search song ID feature on your smart phone

This is fucking hilarious even if it’s just a story you made up to look cool to emp
And I can’t blame you.  We all want emp to think we’re cool
…Hey emp

@Carson Lawler It was part of an advert, so I reuploaded the advert.

thats a pretty good solution the more i think about it

That's some smart thinking there buddy boy

benefiting from a company trying to benefit from a company that tries to benefit from you
in other words
benefiting from YouTube that benefits from a music company that tries to benefit from you but you’re benefiting from youtube at the same time so it’s like win/win/win

Galaxy Brain version of using google to find a song.

I tried uploading a cut version of never gonan give you up, it got claimed literally as soon as it was uploaded, then i put a vintage filter and some text over it and suddenly its fine

I think the strangest part is, some songs will get you a copyright strike instantly (within 24 hours), while others slide off the hook almost completely. That's what I don't seem to get about YouTube's copyright system.

@reddor GIVE US YOUR MUSICAL GENIUS<br>I WANT TO GIVE YOU FREE MONEY

@reddor GIVE US YOUR MUSICAL GENIUS
I WANT TO GIVE YOU FREE MONEY

@reddor Damn, that's bullshit. Do you wanna give us a link to your music so we can do things the right way and support you?

@R Not sure if that guy ever sold any copies, but he definitely tried.

@reddor Okay, so lemme get this straight. In an era where no one pays for music, there were people willing to pay for a stolen bootleg of a song by an indie artist? That's weird as hell.


I had negotiated commercial music usage with some musician in the past, years later all the videos we used his music in were claimed by a record company he signed with years later. Apparently they completely disregarded my agreement with the musician AND the artist himself never responded to us after that.

@Andrew Smith Good luck suing a record company. As shitty as it is- there isn't anything we can do. As Emp said before in this video; it is out of the scope for most, if not all, content creators to sue over a fraudulent claim. Assuming your wallet hasn't been drained from the initial cost of a lawyer, alongside court/travel, the company can afford to keep postponing the trial. Lawyers will make you pay for the extra time.

In that case, the record company is in breach of contract and you should sue them!


Just to add to how hard it is to not have music copyright claimed, I've had MY OWN PERFORMANCES of public domain classical music copyright claimed before

Yeah because YouTube assumes that it's the copyrighted performance of the music


And finally we have the answer: "Why are the Simpsons green?"

I've always thought that, apparently theres another reason why he did this which he talks about in his sixth Never Ever.

don’t you mean the walking, talking, barely thinking grass blocks?

@Lovely Doll Time No way bro, I didn't realise!

To avoid a copyright strike, that's why.

Moniker Handle they’re also the same color as the downward spiral


Ironically, the reason why you don't see the "you wouldn't steal a car" video is apparently because they used copyrighted music.

smash my skull in with my grandma's china set

@seanseanstonThere's a chance that both sides could be wrong so that's why I said apparently because I'm not 100% sure on details.

Wikipedia links to a source that says that isn't true though. So I assume it's pretentious bullshit. Like when QI says things that are blatantly untrue in an attempt to sound smart and obscure, but actually just undermines its own concept.


When people in an environment as public as the internet are finding ways to "smuggle" content into their videos, while the platform they are uploading to itself is trying to stop that, it's a clear sign that the current copyright system no longer works and needs to be thought over.


2007: Broadcast Yourself
2012: Broadcast Yourself playing Minecraft
2018: Broadcast Jimmy Kimmel
2019: <comment unavailable in your country. © Disney>

@Synthetic The Meme Man bro you just posted anti CCP propaganda you are gonna losse credit points

2021: <comment has been flagged as misinformation by the DOJ>

@Zero Black 2023: This comment has been removed due to mentioning events that DID NOT happen.

2021: [Comment mysteriously redacted without warning due to illegal opinion]

2022: Your comment has been taken down and you have been reported to your friendly Chinese Communist Party inspector.

2021: wwweeeeee!! woowweewoowo! oh yeah yeah weeooo!! yeah WOOO!!


Wow, Copyright Deadlock is the coolest and most petty thing. I love the idea of cramming in so many copyrighted content so nobody gets the money. I'm now going to do this in all my videos, I was never planning to make a profit off them anyways, I just want them to be watched. :D thanks Emp


Yeah I just whistle music that I want to use

how can a franzj comment not have more than 100 likes?

You should make a music covers channel Franz

wtf u should be making funny cs compilation not watching youtube poops


"so i owe royalties to the rap group?" LMAOing at the implication that any aspect of copyright law or yt's claim system benefits the actual artists of any of these works. it's the faceless labels and monolithic corporations who seize ownership of their art that are causing all this exhausting bullshit (i mean, literally, they're the ones with the resources to pay lobbyists to make sure copyright law gets as fubar as it is in the first place)


Another deep tale from the internet:<br>So i was looking for copyright free music content; and downloaded a bunch of songs. Turns out the guy who uploaded that content used the "free copyright" title as an excuse to make people download his actual copyright content and then claim it. So i made my coffe; scratched my cats; opened my lap top and added an undertale song instead.

Another deep tale from the internet:
So i was looking for copyright free music content; and downloaded a bunch of songs. Turns out the guy who uploaded that content used the "free copyright" title as an excuse to make people download his actual copyright content and then claim it. So i made my coffe; scratched my cats; opened my lap top and added an undertale song instead.

Extreme Wreck 2000 indeed.<br>that guy is part of the problem

Extreme Wreck 2000 indeed.
that guy is part of the problem

That guy is a full on monster that needs to be obliterated from the very universe ASAP.


Great video emp but you forgot the best way of smuggling music past content ID. Mashups, key and BPM matched. Video game music tends to make the best matches because they're nearly all instrumentals.

“Is that the real Peterscraps?”

~demoknight tf2

I forgot about nightcore as a genre too on youtube, literally just speed up the music, slam nightcore on the title and get 44 million views.


9:50 Oh so THAT'S how CinemaSins can get away with posting 25 minutes of movie footage, by assembling it from quick cuts.

Lillildipsy .-.   I guess that’s kinda the point: YouTube is a backwards system that applies only to its own strange logic

@C D That has never stopped Youtube before.

Cinema sins is arguably fair use since the entire purpose of the channel is criticism which is protected

Lillildipsy .-. Lmfaooo “aint that the opposite of an actual net” im dead

Lillildipsy .-. Here is a better analogy<br>Youtube is a net that ensures that the big fish are safe and secure, while the small fry are left behind in the trench of copyright abuse.

Lillildipsy .-. Here is a better analogy
Youtube is a net that ensures that the big fish are safe and secure, while the small fry are left behind in the trench of copyright abuse.

blizzardregulus isnt that the opposite of an actual net?

Also, youtube's a net where the big fish go free while the small fry get tangled up.

He also reuploads like 10 of his claimed vids a week


Praise saint-kevin Macleod, bringer of peace amongs mortals

On the cool side and eternity by McLeod are two great tracks.

TheFatRat, Kevin Macleod, etc. The Gods of content freedom

he made like 2000+ songs and all of them are free, truly an internet hero

@DirtyMaster for some reason i feel disappointed even though i knew it was going to happen

Lol I just had an ad playing a Kevin Macleod song

Yo look into mackeod, he tried to pull the open liscense a while ago but peer pressured out of it

silent partner, audionautix, bensound, ...

@Nightsbane 520 the tsarist's commie detectors are flaring up, i see

praise otis mcdonald and many others too

Stalin!? Why are you here? I know that man's face!


I feel like something that's overlooked is that if you DO fall within fair use and get claimed anyway, you will (eventually) win the dispute and the revenue rights to your video.

It's like you watch all the same channels that I do

The issue with that is that copyright disputes are rarely decided by who was actually in right, but who has more money to pay the lawyer. And with corporations literally employing teams of lawyers, it becomes basically impossible to out-sustain them. You get stuck in a Catch-22 where even if you fight back and somehow beat whatever music label is fucking you over you end up broke because lawyers charge exorbitant amounts of money.

@Owen Bunny  You would only give back the money made in the last 28 days.

So say you got the ad money for a one million view claimed, do you have to give back the ad money?

You know, once YouTube gets back to you after 3 century’s<br>that is, if they get back to you at all

You know, once YouTube gets back to you after 3 century’s
that is, if they get back to you at all

But by then, it will be too late.<br>Older videos don't make as much revenue as newer videos.

But by then, it will be too late.
Older videos don't make as much revenue as newer videos.


One time I got a copyright strike on a video of mine.

Why? Because it included the state anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In case you didn't know, the USSR national anthem has been public domain for DECADES.

One time I got a copyright strike on a video of mine.

Why? Because it included the state anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In case you didn't know, the USSR national anthem has been public domain for *DECADES.*

@Sama Lass Just because the piece of music is in the public domain doesn't mean that specific recording of (modern) musicians performing it is. aswell.

I got a copyright claim for using the Nutcracker song lmao.

probably some company pretending that they owned the song that has happend many times

@André Well, the Russian government didn't claim it. Their copyright law explicitly states all Soviet iconography and anthems are in the public domain. I think what happened was a performance credit.

its kinda ironic have a copyright claim from a national anthem(who get the revenue? the state?), even more from a country that doesnt exist anymore and EVEN MORE from a comumunist nation

@Danny Caracciolo For music that is. For Western animation? NOPE!

🦀 <b>Public Domain is fucking dead</b> 🦀


2016: IT'S NEVER OGRE

2019: WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY. GAMERS RISE UP.

2016: IT'S NEVER OGRE

2019: *WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY. GAMERS RISE UP.*

“NOT YET SNAKE! IT’S NOT OGRE YET!” -Liquid Shrek, 2022

Here about people spiking GameStop stocks and screwing hedge funds because of it?

<b>WE LIVE A SOCIETY WHERE AKKO HAS SPREAD HER PROFILE PIC ACROSS YOUTUBE</b>

*WE LIVE A SOCIETY WHERE AKKO HAS SPREAD HER PROFILE PIC ACROSS YOUTUBE*

We live in a society started quite a while ago.

just because it's ogre doesn't mean it's really ogre and if I think it ogre maybe I'll be coming ogre again<br>- Katy Perry

just because it's ogre doesn't mean it's really ogre and if I think it ogre maybe I'll be coming ogre again
- Katy Perry

Shrek: It ain't ogre 'till I say it's ogre.

TVBForever it’s still it’s never ogre cuz it’s never ogre


The image by image technique is actually really neat, the first time I watched your wwe video I thought it was just an artistic choice

The way he did it really looked like he knew how to make it look incredible.


As a musician, I like to just mark my stuff as "yes, you can use it"<br>Most important part to me is that someone's hearing it.

As a musician, I like to just mark my stuff as "yes, you can use it"
Most important part to me is that someone's hearing it.


Imagine using a song by Beethoven and it gets copyright claimed by a record label.

And then your counter claim falls on deaf ears

There's this music group called Shibayan Records that got their own music copyright striked by someone who made a remix of the song

When's he dropping by LA, I really want to go to one of his concerts.


The copyright deadlock still makes me smile on the inside.


"Do you support copyright smuggling"<br>Emp: "The law requires that I answer no"

"Do you support copyright smuggling"
Emp: "The law requires that I answer no"

youtube content ID...

...is like an enormous cl-yes! precisely.

<b>the secret ingredient is  c r i m e</b>

@Straw Hat Guy
YouTube help in a nutshell.
"YoU bRokE tHe lAw, sO deSerVe 2 b cLaiMed


This type of editing might well organically develop into a new sense of aesthetics in digital media.


If a game soundtrack is copyrighted, then theres a good chance that the game is copyrighted too because gameplays would get copyrighted claimed because of the music being played in the background of the game

Pigstep, a music disc in Minecraft, will get people copyrighted

@WatchLaterTVi know earthbound samples music, but it’s mostly the Beatles and one song from Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and I’m pretty sure they don’t have the rights to strike videos that use either of those.

@Uriel Ceniceros Ok it's a bit long to explain. Practically, a few weeks ago, sony music entertainment japan had begun to copyright claim all the videos that contained the earthbound ost (if you do not know what earthbound is  look on wikipedia because it is definitely too long to explain it to you) blocking all videos that contained the game's music. The problem is that being the ost from a video game then this was going to include ALSO the gameplays of the game, which in fact were blocked or claimed within a few days. Rechecking recently I noticed that things are returning to normal, with videos of the ost being visible again or copyright claims being withdrawn, although there are still some videos blocked.

Well, you just predicted the earthbound sony crisis <b>*slowly claps*</b>

Well, you just predicted the earthbound sony crisis **slowly claps**


2009: broadcast yourself<br>2019: we live in a society

2009: broadcast yourself
2019: we live in a society


9:45 That explains why you did it in that way. Not gonna lie, that's my favorite part of the Monday Night Raw video, and hearing the audio from the original footage but done in a step-by-step collage made me take in the scene with some degree of imagination, and it was an interesting experience, making it my favorite part of the whole video. Screw those fartknockers for forcing you to do it that way, though.


2009: Broadcast yourself

2019: Broadcast for our advertisers

2009: _Broadcast yourself_

2019: _Broadcast for our advertisers_

90000: broadcast a maximum of 1 second of content so we can put 10 billion ads on it

@Commrade-DOGE What if i don't live in America? Ever think of that FTC?

@JakeSpacePirate E Any competitor will do. Real competition forces improvement. Even if it is pornhub.

Shadowwolf1337 bc they’ll disable uploads for creators.

Well... broadcast yourself not somebodyelse. So start filming and posting YOU and your images,not somebodyelses.

Almost 2020

The FTC: I’m about to end EVERYONES career

pyropulse I truly think they don’t have enough loot to pay all of the creators. This is a shit show. But they can’t tell us this because it would be pandemonium!

Alexander The Snivy you phrased that weird? 2019:protecting hard work.

2020: Don't broadcast anything offensive to children or targeted towards children, but we'll let the news show war, terrorism, murder and worse cause they'll pay us

@Shadowwolf1337 by 2029 youtube would have long sense be a dead social media

Broad cast our ads but we won't let you anyways so we're just gonna delete your account lol.

2084: Don't even think about broadcasting!

Good thing coppa is going to make it so no one can upload in a few months

2030: Submit to broadcasting SFW gaming videos on Pornhub because they are unfortunately looking like a viable competitor to youtube...yeah. I'm thinking about it.

Not related but I love your profile pic!

2029: Broadcast absolutely nothing at all!


"... Barbaricly punished by the wrath of angry gamers."<br>This remains my favourite comedic quote of Emp.

"... Barbaricly punished by the wrath of angry gamers."
This remains my favourite comedic quote of Emp.


"Just like driving 5 miles over the speed limit..."

Texans: Those are rookie numbers!


I've seen people compose their own original music only for it to get claimed.

They used copyrighted notes and copyrighted beat

God help you if your original song has a chord progression that sounds similar to any song ever released.

Which of course is practically impossible to avoid.


Fun fact: Mr beast was copyright claimed for saying ‘we’re half way there’ and not even to the tune of the song

So if i say "dark side of the moon" i'm gonna get claimed too?

@Jaydoff im with ya, like for real, maybe it's possible if enough people join this venture. Im sick and tired of mental acrobatics that creative people have to go trough just to create thanks to parasitic companies that unjustly profit off of their work.

not so fun fact more like a what the bloody hell fact

Mr Beast should actually attempt this, he's one of the few people that has the time and resources to start a lawsuit like this. It could change everything tbh.

Dirk Diggler Mr Beast saved and helped more people than you could ever help

Jaydoff<br>We can only hope big Youtubers, the ones with the money, will take action. Like Pewdiepie or similars. But I don’t think anyone is willing to go to court with fucking Warner Music, etc.

Jaydoff
We can only hope big Youtubers, the ones with the money, will take action. Like Pewdiepie or similars. But I don’t think anyone is willing to go to court with fucking Warner Music, etc.

@Jaydoff yeah we need something like the H3H3 lawsuit on a 100x bigger level

I doubt its gonna happen tho, too much money and coordination required

We need to file a class action lawsuit against Warner and Universal for repeatedly and illegally falsely copyright claiming people. The street goes both ways and its a crime when they do it too.


I remember when Nintendo started cracking down on people using their music. Back when I was still a part of the GMod/SFM community, I was hearing complaints left and right from my peers. Even though Nintendo has eased up a bit, it really kinda killed a lot of the motivation to go forward in the community.


13:56 - I got hit with the same thing for sampling the audio of a NASA probe beeping. Some jackass used it in a song so they claim they own it now.


20:32 I love how your examples of obscure music are pretty much in my music taste homeground. Not a fan of Cassiopea or Spin, but that kind of obscure prog is exactly what I listen to


imagine the amount of hoops he had to jump through to keep this video from getting a strike


Ah yes, Emp Lemon and Internet Historian unite once again.

@Stephen Kohl Welcome back? Have we met before?

Okay I'm going to try to tell as many people as possible this but you can use a verified partner account; put content on another account AND THEN CONTENT CLAIM IT FOR MONEY! I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS AND DID EMPLEMON BRING THIS UP?

Aswell as uhhh Jungle Jimmy, that other guy chancellor susan killed?


The best way to deal with this is to abolish corporate individual rights.

Just make the corporations that claim the rights null and void.


What a fucking outstanding creator

Creates high quality documentaries on interesting subjects ✔

Is entertaining in general ✔

Cares about other creators ✔

Cares about the platform ✔

Quality over quantity ✔

Is one of the wisest creators on the website? ✔

Has understanding of meme culture and internet culture in general ✔

Is badass ✔

Thank you for the content you have given us. Much appreciated, and is really getting me through this quarantine


I got hit with a copyright claim when i showed an instagram story of a single i found at a thrift store of 1999. Copyright laws are absurd at this point.


I did a Kingdom Hearts lets play, on the first episode, I got copyright striked by disney for making a joke using the disney theme, I didn’t even steal it, I sung it myself because I am crap at editing. After that, I gave up on being a YouTuber because I didn’t want to deal with it or possibly get sued


I still get claims for 5 seconds and less of audio.

24 likes and 1 reply, time to make my appearance!


I literally just tried to upload a funeral video for my Mom’s friend the other day only for it to get hit with this garbage. Somebody literally has a auto claim system, for a public domain song, set up to try and make money off military vets passing away. I hate this mess.


Your narrations are by far some of the most enjoyable on YT and this series is gooooooood stuff.


I’m amazed “fair use” was only mentioned twice, and one of those in the Jim Sterling clip.


Halfway through this video, actual tears of anger came to my eyes.
Dear Companies,
Restricting free speech is a crime against humanity, not another way to make money. If the law is with you, then you are both in the wrong.
No, you know what? We've tried mercy. Now it's time to fight. You gotta break the law to fix the law, as MLK showed us all.
We need to recreate the Civil Rights Movement, and all the strategic coordination it took to bring justice to America. That method killed de jure segregation. Bad copyright law should be a piece of cake.


for someone that has been both a looong time user of Youtube and a recent student in production of youtube videos, i find this video to be very very useful, emp. Thanks Homie.


When I use MIDI and 16-Bit Remixes, I always ask permission from the Artists, despite I'm not using Copyrighted Music.


I think it also helps to alter the dimensions of the video. For example, changing it to something weird like 1001x135 while being extremely stretched out, will also help make it harder to detect.


I've had scumbags illegally copyright claim things on my channel, and since I'm not the rights holder I have (had) no way to stop them. The whole system is broken.


"240p quality isn't exactly ideal".<br>Meanwhile, I'm sitting here watching this video in 144p.

"240p quality isn't exactly ideal".
Meanwhile, I'm sitting here watching this video in 144p.

Hah you peasants I watch the videos in 480p like a god

My internet is so bad my quality is less than 144pp

Ah, I, too, am watching this on my brand-new Samsung toaster. Nice to be able to watch stuff while~ oops, toast is done, later.

@blondike I legit can't skip, unless chrome is hiding the feature so I HAVE to use the youtube app instead.

Wtf how are you all watching this in this quality? I literally have to watch it like this because I'm on the God damn train and the wifi is ass

Thanks to mobile data I can watch this video in 144p and it still stops to load for 30+ seconds

@Isolated Bishop I mean- this doesnt help much but you can change the 10-second skip to an upwards of sixty seconds in settings.

This new YouTube browser player is awful, not only does it randomly 144p more often, you can double tap on the sides to skip 10 seconds. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO REWATCH THE JOKE I MISSED IN A +30 MINUTE LONG VIDEO SUSAN?

144p is the true way to watch an emp video


I have to say this is my favorite YouTube channel. The only commentary videos I have no problem going back and rewatching every now and again.


Thank you, Emp. I love you.<br>I wanna try making videos and I started my year by making a shitty Onision meme vocoded to songs from Evangelion, specifically Cruel Angel's Thesis, Komm, Susser Todd and Fly Me To The Moon. It was very quickly claimed, blocked and struck. It completely sapped me of my drive to actually go through with another Eva related project I was starting to work on. This guide will come in hand for avoiding situations like it in the future.

Thank you, Emp. I love you.
I wanna try making videos and I started my year by making a shitty Onision meme vocoded to songs from Evangelion, specifically Cruel Angel's Thesis, Komm, Susser Todd and Fly Me To The Moon. It was very quickly claimed, blocked and struck. It completely sapped me of my drive to actually go through with another Eva related project I was starting to work on. This guide will come in hand for avoiding situations like it in the future.


Honestly for the safest approach to the music problem possible while still preventing content from being bland, use royalty free music that is relatively obscure. There’s a lot more out there than you think, and the more types of songs you have the less bland it will seem. Hell, most people don’t even realize that it’s royalty free due to how obscure it is. It doesn’t even have to come from obscure artists, certain artists have made tens of thousands of works.

Alternatively another solution is to just not have music at all. On paper it sounds like an awful idea but sometimes the structure of the video, theme of the video, and many other things can let you get away with this. However keep in mind that this option is very situational regardless, and if you feel like your content could benefit from music then I highly suggest you use it.


The music copyright system literally killed my first two Youtube channels.


TIP FOR MASKING INSTRUMENTALS: If you want to obfuscate the instrumental track you're using in order to bypass copyright, add an EQ to the track and clip out as much of the high and low frequencies as you feel comfortable with, then add some record static. I've found this to be fairly effective in multiple occasions, adding a small pitch shift doesn't hurt either!

I uploaded a bit from a morning radio show that included Bruce Springsteen's "Hungry Heart".  The cassette tape had tracking problems for the first few seconds, making the start bassy.  I got a copyright match, and when I asked YouTube to remove the song, they didn't completely remove it.  You can still tell it's there.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gnlcmgfY6g

So pretty much mixing the sample up? But thnx man. This helped

If I made commentary videos I'd probably just make my own music but not even that is safe anymore lol

@null
It's the same technique you could use for making a karaoke song as well (just for removing vocals)  . I used this trick for a wedding years back, yielding decent results.

This tool can be used to de-mix a song, to separate out the audio files. Works best on acoustic tracks.

https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/blob/master/README.md

@Anatomy Of The Mix this is really neat advice, I'll try this out for myself next chance I get. Thank you!!!

Another neat trick you could use. If your sound source is stereo ( in most cases it is ) you can null out and remove the 'center channel' fairly simply.

The center channel consists of content that is equal amplitude on both the left and right sides of the audio.
Things like bass drum, snare and the main vocals. It really depends on the decisions made during the mix process, so your mileage may vary.

To remove the center channel, you first need to make two mono tracks from the original stereo track. I'm not sure if you can use Audacity for this, but I know that you can do this with Ardour.  Ardour is free and open source software.

Take your two mono tracks, time align them and reverse the polarity of one of the tracks. Everything that was once panned to the center now disappears. To bring back portions of the audio that is nulled out, add an equalizer  to one of the tracks.

To bring the kick drum back, use a high pass filter. This keeps the low end from canceling out during the summing process.

Hope this helps

Hell, Using Invert/EQ, you could take out or muffle the drums from a track. Obviously how good it sounds after that depends entirely on the track.


People have been repeatedly hit with copyright strikes on YouTube for the album Polygondwanaland, which was explicitly released to the public domain (including commercial use, the band encouraged independent record shops to press their own vinyl).


Hilarious how an hour long video can have a 5-second sample from a song or a soundtrack leading to the whole video being removed, demonetized, or blocked in certain regions (if not simply muted), yet there are millions of uploads of ENTIRE MUSIC ALBUMS from many rock and metal bands and those not only survive through the years, but gain views still and people even leave comments

if this doesn't let you know just how fucked the copyright system on youtube is, nothing will


C: This is some really great advice and food for thought! Great video!


9:45 We must say: that technique actually made the video better especially with the visceral happenings at that point.


remember when those guys got copyright claimed for humming the halo theme in a mens bathroom ?

My favorite (a.k.a. most flabbergasting) is the video of a kid playing the star wars march of the empire on a ruler pressed against a desk that got ID'd

Liam Thompson <br>Also makeing your own, entirely original song

Liam Thompson
Also makeing your own, entirely original song

Youtube turns into a dictatorship<br>You can't sing

Youtube turns into a dictatorship
You can't sing

They’ve done this to guitar players performing riffs on acoustic guitars. It’s insane.

That technically is a violation of copyright, you need to obtain a performance license in order to perform a copyright work of music.

@Liam Thompson a video featuring the broadcast of Robert J Oppenheimer saying I am become death..... was copyright claimed by Warner bros for Linken Park

@Eric Lee we can make a reddit out of this

This can happen now. Apparently covers are illegal. Also speaking the lyrics to a song

Yet another reason to hate youtube and its aggressive content ID system.

@Hola Amigos i think he was joking my guy


You know the system is broken when you get a copyright strike for an original song you composed.


not going to lie, I respect emp he keeps it real with his video and the copyright meta game is a good tutorial for youtube.


22:48 I was not expecting that smash bros documentary clip, you are truly a man of culture.


I got claimed on one of my videos for using an Undertale song by a company that didn't even own the rights themselves, and of course monetized it, because YouTube's system is so easily exploitable.


Here's a fun one that Soundcloud mashup artists use to avoid their tracks being taken down; take the track and pitch it up or down by a decimal and stretch it out by a millisecond, it will sound exactly the same but the bots won't pick up the original songs

@UOA Plays Highly Unlikely <br>Considering that Companies rarely watch the whole videos

@UOA Plays Highly Unlikely
Considering that Companies rarely watch the whole videos

Unfortunately this doesn't always work. There are videos that have altered songs to a much further degree (reversing it, pitching it down/up by several decimals, altering the speed by over 25%, etc) that are starting to get detected.

It's almost as if they're improving the bots to try and get around content creators methods. Though this also leads to false claims happening (like when Mr. Beast got claimed by some record label for simply yelling "yeah" and the bots thought it was Journey or something).

The only example I can think of at the moment is Pewdiepie's recent Dr. Phil video. He distorted the video AND audio of the clips he used and still got copyright claims. Of course this could also just be a case of the copyright holders actually manually claimed the video because they saw it.

Also take this comment with a grain of salt because I'll admit I haven't yet watched this video lol


I have had ENOUGH with YouTube's copyright system. This needs to change NOW.


For what it's worth, I never register any of my music with the Content ID system. I did it once, a long time ago with one album, and really hated it. Decided that my music would be free to use and listen to for it's life time. And in the case of the ass hole who decided to change his licensing, if I ever decided I wanted to earn money off of my music, it would never be 1) from copyright claims. 2) from music I have already released for free.


The fact he would use the methods used for smuggling soon after explaining it is genius


I love how NFT Owners tried to enforce the Image Copyright Laws without realizing how pointless it is.


I put an unlisted video on my channel of me playing an interpol song on youtube so I could send it to my grandma, it was insta-claimed, even though I played all the instruments and sang the vocals, I got a claim for the MELODY of the song. I actually thought covers were pretty safe on youtube before this, but apparently not.


For what it's worth, in regards to still images I actually really enjoyed the editing in the WWE Never Ever with the live commentary over it. I thought it was stylish.


The fact that YouTube hasn't banned this video comes to show how little it cares about it's community.


WE NEED A COPPA VIDEO FROM YOUUUUU! youre the best at what you do and i feel your input would have a huge impact


Have you seen the people copyright claiming their own videos with music they own the license for to counter the company's claim?

Also, you missed the most common technique to obscure smuggled video: Speeding it up. I've seen people do this for literally a decade, and it seems the system still hasn't caught on


Thank you for listing songs in a paste bin link. I hope more people do this.


Hey guys, I heard that Hyper Potions is an independent artist that won't claim your music, and they're happy to allow you to use their music as long as you credit them.


22:47
Thats from The Smash Brothers documentary right?
Its incredible how many references Emp fits in his videos.


And now we wait for Emp’s word on Coppa here

@Grimms Just throw some gore in your thumbnail, or reference sex at all.

BrickBuilder Infinity you see Mr. Infinity, pre 2014 YouTube had no toy channels filled with children. It was beautiful, but then channels like fgteev, toy monster, and Ryan's toy review brought a foul stench to the site and caused a huge surge of children to YouTube. Coppa will make YouTube more like what it almost was in the golden ages.

@Grimms well guess what, that exact thing will be such a huge financial blow to YouTube, that it will definitely fold, or at the very least cut costs DRAMATICALLY

@bitelaserkhalif 平家boy천궁파워서플라이 music and passion were always the fashion....

He hinted at it in the end of the video, by referencing the FTC fine of $42,000 aimed at individual videos.

@Reese Bell they'll never win. The meme train has no brakes!

@Grimms check out Internet Historians tweet on the issue. I don't know if he's right or not, but he's making a lot of sense: https://twitter.com/NetHistorian/status/1196944903038652417

First came Internet Neutrality
Then came Article 13
Well you know what they say, thirds times a charm!

Grimms Yeah that’s a big problem. I’m pretty sure that YouTube and the FTC will hash this out and do some new terms. For the mean time, those channels will have to adapt and survive. I will say that I’m looking forward to how this will play out

@The Plains Jam I guess it eliminates all the annoying and disgusting "kid" channels, but also puts a lot of good content creators in danger due to how vague the concept of what they view a "kid" channel as.

Mandel Brot A good thing for people who mature content, kid content is fucked.

Surprisingly, he said that it's actually going to he a good thing, he said so on his Twitter.

Lightning Cayo <br>the vid better be called “coppa deez nuts”

Lightning Cayo
the vid better be called “coppa deez nuts”


You can make a song on a different account, register it to the content ID system, and use it in a video on your main account, then claim your video with your alt account to get monetized without having to appeal to YouTube's age appropriate monetization system.


A good YouTuber puts his music sources in the description. Keep it up!


I love how these videos, next to being super informative, have also introduced me to Emerson, Lake & Palmer, whom I know love :D


Public domain music is also an option (although it may be country-specific) - note that this is different from "royalty free" because it's literally past copyright-ability.


Another example of just how insidious the music copyright is on YouTube: Pyrocynical had an outro song by Whitewoods, a vaporwave internet group who samples copyrighted music to make their vaporwave music. Sony claimed the song and all 500+ of his videos with 15 seconds of the music at the end got claimed, making his entire channel copyrighted.

If you're gonna be a smuggler you have to keep in mind variety is dangerous (more chances of getting copyrighted) but so is uniformity - using the same thing in all of your videos makes it so if that gets detected, now you have multiple copyrights to worry about.

@Nonukez he did just that after it happened and got his own new song comissioned. He didn't before because the music kind of became the theme of the channel

I feel like at that point, it’s cheaper and safer to pay someone to produce a 15 second outro for you, especially if you’re going to recycle it for multiple videos.

Yes, the copyright system itself is incredibly outdated, originally made nearly a century ago and updated decades before the widespread use of the internet. But until lawmakers change the rules... why not just pay a small fee to use the music?

(Again, this is just specifically for the outro, I realize it’d be pretty expensive to pay for multiple different trackers per video)

Content ID needs to end! All music should be safe for use. ALL OF THEM!

Happened to Mumbo too a while back, and in an unsurprising display of YouTube's incompetence, Matt Lowne's intro as taken from the YouTube Copyright Free Library.

What a fantastic algorithm!

Exact same thing happened to NKFRZ a few years back, he had to completely  change his intro and a lot or most of his old videos are missing

So... like cdawgva's copyright problem, pholla's do it for love gets claimed even if you have the licence


You can get copyright claimed for using the royalty free music from YOUTUBE ITSELF

Don’t use YouTube audio library


Used Karn evil 9 as the backing track to part 1, starts part 2 with “welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends” I see what you did emp

When I saw it, I laughed really loudly. It surprises me that the best content creator is also a prog fan.


I think if you use someone else’s song without permission the amount of money they get should be the percentage of the length of time the song was used for in the video divided by 2 because only the audio was ‘stolen’ and the visuals were likely made by the original uploader


The Downward Spiral has become one of the best Memes and you Dance it More expertly then any werewolf, Howlers could have learned a thing from you.


That Joker impression was still better than Onision.

Digging through sewage with your bare hands is better than experience


Man, I love how much of an internet child you are from referencing the smash documentary to the tf2soundtrack


Props for mentioning Spin's self titled, that album is amazing


Emp 2019: Video game music is mostly safe to use.

Nintendo 2020: 🤔


Even saying lyrics is copyrightable according to the current youtube system. Most businesses aren't going on radical copyright inquisitions because they know they will cause too much backlash, so instead they're just slowly boiling the pot with ever increasingly bullshit claims in hopes people wont notice and it'll eventually become the norm.


I've once heard.
From the lowest of low.
A method that I have realized how broke back mountain the system is.....

Copyright claiming your own videos so they can't steal all ya money.

I've once heard.
From the lowest of low.
A method that I have realized how broke back mountain the system is.....

*Copyright claiming your own videos so they can't steal all ya money.*

SALE OFFER!

Commit one copyright claim on yourself!
Get two more outta nowhere, for free!
(Sale started since 2018 by YouTube)


Thankfully, I've never had to deal with getting copyright striked. (Probably because I animate myself but probably because my videos don't get more than a few hundred views)


Yo I just have to say,  your videos inspire me to want to make videos while also hitting me with the realization that I should give up on that dream. Keep up the good work!


Props to emplemon for not only showcasing how people smuggled copyright content, but also trying to get contentid to not take down this video by putting them in use at the same time.


the fact that the pastebin says "rusty cage background music" is peak comedy

@DJArtyom 124 Rusty Cage is pretty awesome, especially his songs.

Ah a man of culture as well i see nice to see a fellow cage fan lol

Isn't Rusty Cage a part of the Road Rash soundtrack?


YouTube's priority is not to be sued out of existence by major media companies. The Content ID system helps to protect them from that. Without it, YouTube wouldn't exist and if it did, using copyrighted material without a license would be much more expensive for individual creators. Obviously the system is not too great, but it is a layer of protection for creators. Don't forget that.


22:03 Considering that I've repeatedly used Higher Powered by Audio Hertz as my go-to stock music for copyrighted music, I would get several claims at once if that song loses its creative commons license.


That Brawlmaster guy was a treasure hoard of video game songs.<br>Nintendo killed that decade long channel for... no reason? They weren't losing money, and getting a lot of exposure.

That Brawlmaster guy was a treasure hoard of video game songs.
Nintendo killed that decade long channel for... no reason? They weren't losing money, and getting a lot of exposure.


Always love to hear internet historian’s voice


I personally recommend copyright claiming your own videos. That way, if any company claims it, they'll still have to share 50% of the revenue.
Plus, if you have several accounts, you can effectively funnel 99% of all the revenue towards yourself.
The only way for that to stop being a viable option would be if YouTube acknowledged the inherently flawed system and fixed it.

@Krer Grimpaw man, other countries have some scary laws<br>im not sure how the law works in other places so i can't speak for others

@Krer Grimpaw man, other countries have some scary laws
im not sure how the law works in other places so i can't speak for others

@Conut Gnuz Yeah, but they could just give you a SLAPP suit to silence you, knowing you cant afford american court fees as you still have to pay your attorney even if you win the case, unlike in the UK where the loser pays both sides legal fees

@Conut Gnuz Hey, you should be scared of the system everyday and question wth the law is for

@Sup E man, if shit ton of influence is enough to get me through the law, id be scared of the system everyday and question wth the law is for

Conut Gnuz who the one with the most influence

@Ecrivon Lunyx i mean, it's as illegal as what the companies do

you claiming your own content makes sense, companies claming a song that they didn't make doesn't
what's the company going to sue you for? what's youtube gonna sue you for? we can refute all their shit back by telling them that theyre shit, or making them look at a mirror, so they wont

TL;DR:: they have to be big fucking hypocrites AND acknowledge it to sue us, they do only the first part

I'm pretty sure that's super against the terms of service though, and possibly illegal so you could get in trouble


Making your background songs into nightcores are also a good solution for using copyrighted music. Yes, Those anime high pitched remixes of songs amount to something. Although I would suggest you make it a nightcore yourself rather than nabbing it from someone so you'll have more wiggle room on mixing it up to your tastes. 8bit and Midi remixes also apply. Midi being lower on size.


about the video smuggling:<br>one time I've flipped and squeezed a music video footage to about 1/3 of it's height and yet still it got claimed. 1/5 of the height squeeze worked though

about the video smuggling:
one time I've flipped and squeezed a music video footage to about 1/3 of it's height and yet still it got claimed. 1/5 of the height squeeze worked though


I wonder, could the video game music method apply to Mod tracker files (as in Commodore Amiga music)? If so, that makes Mod music another source of smuggleable music


The most easiest thing ive seen to avoid copyright is flipping it, ive seen animation reviewers do it, some times I cant tell that it was flipped until some text appears


I got claimed for playing a song too like the original on piano that the content id system thought it was a reupload...

YouTube auto-detects the Minecraft parody song "Revenge" (creeper aw man) as the Usher song for some reason even though the Minecraft song's backing track was remade with noteblocks


Emp: You can easily smuggle video game soundtracks 20:49
Nintendo: that's where you're wrong kiddo


8:20 I really like the way the music continues from the reaction video into the background of yours


this was very informative and i will keep this in mind for any future content i might make


Most uses of copyrighted images aren't illegal - they're usually transformative, and therefore fair use.


EmpLemon is like drug.<br>You want more, and when you can get some, you're first there.

EmpLemon is like drug.
You want more, and when you can get some, you're first there.

@Alyssa Richardson I used to mix Emp and dope for the perfect s🅱eed🅱all


The YouTube copyright system claimed multiple of my covers of songs that was made using a musical instrument I DESIGNED. That included Megalovania. Kinda bothered that they want to make money off my engineering. <br>I honestly wish the dispute system had an option where you could say its not the right song (i.e. the content ID system messed up) because there isn't that option.

The YouTube copyright system claimed multiple of my covers of songs that was made using a musical instrument I DESIGNED. That included Megalovania. Kinda bothered that they want to make money off my engineering.
I honestly wish the dispute system had an option where you could say its not the right song (i.e. the content ID system messed up) because there isn't that option.


When you hear "educational purposes only" you know its gonn be good


When discussing music claims, I had an issue when I captured the performance of a band performing a cover of a song.  The band who made the original song (or their record company) claimed the entire 1 hour video for a live-performed cover of material.  Joke's on them, though.  I'm too small-time to be making money on YouTube anyway, so what's the point?  The channel I uploaded the video on is Midnight Owl Radio, not my own personal channel that I don't do anything with.


Every YouTuber has an audience. I feel like EmpLemons audience is YouTubers.

He is your favorite youtubers favorite youtuber. The MF DOOM of youtubers if you will.

I normally don't care much about copyright issues on YouTube since they don't personally concern me but EmpLemon's videos are always so well made I still watch them even if the topic isn't interesting lol.

Same with Nerd City, if not even more so: he uploaded some good tutorials for creators and showed the inner workings of YouTube, so it's likely that part of his audience is also other youtubers.


Lmfao the silent shot of the Star Wars theme video with "film scores are also at risk of this" had me in stitches


I have an idea: Make YTPs out of youtube videos, since the majority of the time youtube videos aren’t copyrighted


This video makes out that it's fine to steal stock photos and get away with it. If you stand to gain from using the image, you should pay. The people who spend their time to contribute these images rely on the income.


when it comes to putting up copyrighted music, just slow the track down by 1.5-2x, and leave a note in the title or description for the listener to manually turn up the speed 1.5-2x in the youtube video "playback speed" settings


As a music nerd, Emp has indeed gained my respect for bringing up Casiopea.

I hope he decides to use Thibault's <i>Aquadingen</i> at some point. Love that song

I hope he decides to use Thibault's _Aquadingen_ at some point. Love that song


i swear MrSuicideSheep, Chill with Taiki, etc are keeping us music lovers alive. The chill, lo-fi, and even vaporwave, chill house, chill trap, chillstep etc are put on Youtube for recognition so that they can be streamed on Spotify.


the way you used big beat Mario to introduce music smuggling was GENIUS


20:50 I get the feeling that video game copyright claims are now going to be the next big controversy...


This is even more meta especially with COPA

A man that likes noob vs zombies Tycoon 2

@labrynianrebel More like COPPR - since that's the law that revised COPPA back in 2013.


"The Boys of Summer" by Don Henley seems to be so protected that I can't find the original version of the song on YouTube, I can only find remixes. I don't know why a song from the 1980's is considered so "precious" that it can't even be used on YouTube. The only place I could find the original version of the song was Amazon Music.


YouTube needs some sort of competition. Without any rivals or threats to YouTube they can do this shitty tactic and system to screw content creators over. If there was a second website competing with YouTube then they wouldn't be doing these shitty business practices as to not lose advertisers and content creators (a.k.a $$$MONEY$$$).


I added a song to some videogame footage I once uploaded. It was SUPER quiet and only meant to cover the maybe 10-seconds total of relative "silence" over the course of the 5-minute video. The rest of the video you couldn't have heard the song if it was 10x louder. It got claimed.


14:50
>corrupting a song to that extent defeats the purpose
2011 called, they say otherwise


I once got copyright striked for using a car start up sound effect... that was in public domain... that some random music company put at the start of their crappy music video. Thanks YouTube.


8-bit versions of songs get claimed too - over a year later, but they still get (wrongfully) claimed.


Music, images, video, and software, in a digital format, is information. Information can effortlessly be copied and shared, whereas physical, material objects cannot (read: law of conservation of mass). For this reason, treating unauthorized use of information as "stealing" is inaccurate and wrong.


What I've seen a lot of bootleggers do is upload a movie/show in separate videos, then put the videos into a playlist to make it seamless


Youtube reading how to piss off everyone ? Lmao they wrote it

Asoivel Muidragniw they were checking to make sure they used all their own best methods.

Youtube is actually just trying to learn how to read there though. It has no idea wtf that book says. Youtube can't be held legally responsible for anything because it's just a babby, an youtubekids. Google, take me to spiderman elsa.


Many years ago I attached a photo sensor to my microphone input and covered it with my finger to measure my heart rate. It worked, but my skin was touching the wire, which, incredibly, created an antenna that picked up a long-wave radio station. I shit you not. I added 30 seconds of it to the end of my video on the project. Youtube identified the song I picked up from the radio, but weirdly not the copyrighted music I was blatantly adding to the video. I did not get a strike.
Actual (very cringy) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPrhUaV-ERI The relevant bit starts at 1:47


When I really like music from a YouTube video, I find the source of the music. It is basically free advertising.

If I don't like the music then it makes no difference to the music creator as I wouldn't listen to their music either way.


11:09 i did my first video about 2 years ago, and it got claimed because the music playing in the background, which was HEAVILY NOT LOUD OR ENJOYABLE, was playing. from a famousish company named Intocable (spanish for untouchable i think) cause it was just there. there was a lot of noise in the back so yeah that’s another thing to point out.


So in theory, I could be copyright claimed for playing a song about a battleship, in a video I made (on a separate channel) where I was supposed to make a boat for a school project. The music was played from my computer, the video was filmed on my phone (with my computer in the background) in the back yard of someone I knew with a swimming pool, with me talking over it describing my project. Interesting...

Might I add that I only plan on uploading if I have to do a project that requires it.


The trouble with video game soundtracks is that developers often use licensed music which will get detected and claimed.


I only found out about this recently and I’m not sure if this has been said yet. At 10:35 is the white straps playing in St. John’s finishing up a tour across Canada. Among other secret concerts and performances where there should not have been from the groups “we can do anything” mentality, they performed a final secret performance where they played one note. Then left.


16:32 Realizing that 009 Sound System - Dreamscape was so popular through virtue of being alphabetically gifted is deeply hilarious. I wonder what other cultural phenomena will/were created because they showed up first on a list.


It’s boutta get so much worse here on YouTube.


I love how they basically copyright infringe you because they are using your content to gain money.

It should be backwards, user videos should have a priority over already published pop culture elements (given that they credit creator properly so looking for sources is not hell).

Anyway I think it is pretty shitty that a 3 minute song you randomly used for background can strike a 30 minute video and make earnings for the author company.

I mean if they upload the music with no other intent than making money directly from the unprocessed product then people do deserve to get struck down, in any other case they are practically stealing from you.


I'm really pissed of that there's no Jimi Hendrix or Beatles songs on YouTube...  It's detrimental to the legacy of those musicians and a lot of young people are missing out on discovering their music because of that


3:24 Image Smuggling (So Ingrained in the culture, but some companies still try to copyright claim)
4:53 Video Smuggling


If you find a nice song by an independent artist, that you want to use in a video, it's common courtesy to ask first and most of the time they only want to be credited in the description. <br>Of course if they let you use their music like this it's the nice thing to go to their website and buy their album too.

If you find a nice song by an independent artist, that you want to use in a video, it's common courtesy to ask first and most of the time they only want to be credited in the description.
Of course if they let you use their music like this it's the nice thing to go to their website and buy their album too.


Never forget the Nintendo music copyright attack of 2019

Brawl, Gilva, Dystifyer(Even the new account’s videos are blocked in my country), so many people have been hit.

Honestly I wish Nintendo would just make a streaming service for their music. I would even be willing to pay for that.

I've lost count of the amount of times Silvagunner and Gilvasunner have been hit

you didn't hear it from me but buhl still around you just gotta look

@TheNachoNinja FTW <br>But SiIva's channel was taken down by Sony, right?

@TheNachoNinja FTW
But SiIva's channel was taken down by Sony, right?

Rest in peace for Brawl, he'll be missed


wow this is actually super useful. This is exactly what happened to my channel!


I paid for a stock music site to use their songs on my vids and avoid copyright.  But then another stock music site had an artist claim some of that stock music as their own and stock music site 2 slapped me with claims even though they were peddling stolen music.
I did the research and pointed out the mistake to both sites.  The thieving site ignored me, my stock music site basically said "Thanks but we don't care."  And the copyright strike stood for a month.

I'd be willing to pay the percentage of my revenue the same as the percentage of the song was in my video (a 5 second music clip in a 100 second video gets 5% of the revenue for example).  But instead a 5 second clip in a 30 minute video means the song get's 100% of your revenue.
That's not fair on any level.


I find it funny how near the end of the video, Emp uses a song from tf2 from a gamemode called "Mann vs Machine", which I think is hilarious, due to youtubers vs copyright is litterally men (and everything in between) versus machines.


5:14 GUESS WHO'S WRONG!
7:06 I swear I've seen that unsettling image in Dragon Quest.
9:36 Also upping the pitch for the audio. I've seen it done too
13:00 DUDE
Man, what a glorious second part. I've seen some second parts in MY time but that was the secondest of all. Seriously though, cheers, my belo Emp.


The Arist Niel Ciceraga, had to take the song "When he died" taken out of the Album Spirit Phone's upload on youtube, because it sounds similar another song, even though its his own unqiue creation and has been sincearound 2012.<br>Its pretty bad if a song can just get removed because some more popular person used a similar tempo or something and claimed you stole it

The Arist Niel Ciceraga, had to take the song "When he died" taken out of the Album Spirit Phone's upload on youtube, because it sounds similar another song, even though its his own unqiue creation and has been sincearound 2012.
Its pretty bad if a song can just get removed because some more popular person used a similar tempo or something and claimed you stole it

Sad thing is this isn't exclusive to youtube. There have been multiple occasions in the music industry where artists/publishers have sued other artists under the accusation of their song too 'similar' to theirs.

I don't want to be rude, but you made a error. It is Neil, not Niel.

When I was like 7 or 8 I made an original composition in Mario Paint called "Starlight Casino." It turned out Sony Music also had a song called "Starlight Casino", and my music got copyright claimed solely because the title was the same and they assumed it was their song. Thankfully, they rescinded the claim after someone actually checked it out and realized it wasn't even the same song

The God of the internet himself doesn’t deserve this

That's pretty wild considering he is the same guy who used to make mash ups of popular songs. Though Lemon Demon ACTUALLY is original material. I didnt know this though. My minds slightly blown. Neil is amazing.


And here I thought the copyright metagame was claiming completely unrelated videos to hijack their ad revenue.


You do realize you could make a channel that is able to content claim videos and content claim your own videos in order for ad-sense to be on said video right? Not counting copyright dead lock. I've been telling people about this for years!


I posted the full regular show finale on Instagram, it got claimed by the music company that held the rights to the ending song “hero’s”😐


empLemon is sorta like the legend Ned Kelly going against the law


If you make a company that helps content creators create content without being copyright striked you could make millions


I actually made a video (For educational purposes) and used "all you need is love" from the beatles. It got claimed less than an hour later. So, I used a remixed version than sounded almost exactly the same and didn't get copyrighted.


So THATS why every pirated disney video has the content itself in a corner or croped down!


this didnt age well. i mean the information and video is fantastic. however NO one could have seen the WARPATH both MUSIC and FILM studios have gone on now against content creators because of massive loss of revenue due to corona. holy shit balls. where do we go from here?


The bit about paying royalties to Cypress Hill's publisher reminds me of copyright law in China, especially in regards to toys/collectibles. <br>In China, if you make a bootleg Gundam, you actually own the right to the bootleg. So if ANOTHER bootlegger takes your design, you can sue them. Even though you stole it in the first place. WHAT A WORLD

The bit about paying royalties to Cypress Hill's publisher reminds me of copyright law in China, especially in regards to toys/collectibles.
In China, if you make a bootleg Gundam, you actually own the right to the bootleg. So if ANOTHER bootlegger takes your design, you can sue them. Even though you stole it in the first place. WHAT A WORLD


Had a particularly dumb encounter with Content ID recently. A few weeks ago, I uploaded a Clone Hero gameplay video of the song Dead or Lie from Danganronpa 3, and although the video was claimed, all they did was put ads on it. Fast forward to yesterday, I made a shitpost using a shorter edit of the exact same song... and it gets immediately blocked worldwide.

Apparently using the full version of Dead or Lie is perfectly fine, but using the TV edit is gonna get you blocked worldwide. What fucking sense does that make?


I am getting recommended the first two parts of this series so much more. But I haven't seen the one that has "Copyright Law is a Joke"  in the title once.


you do realize there is a dispute option
on my old channel i would upload music i made and copyright manipulators would false claim it

so i'd dispute it

and only one time did i lose a dispute

why? because the dispute i lost was actually correctly claimed by the actual artist because it was a video of my sister playing dance star 2012


20:53 and that's why you guys hear so much Undertale, Pokemon, Mario and Nintendo songs on YT videos and I don't mind at all because they are a jam!


From personal experience, licenced commercial music can be refuted if it was played through a video game. In my Taiko no Tatsujin guide, I managed to refute all copyright claims and won all of them. Give or take, this was a several years ago. There was one video that got region locked, but youtube assured me that it wasn't a copyright claim.<br>The song was called "Knuckle Heads" from the NHK Music Group.

From personal experience, licenced commercial music can be refuted if it was played through a video game. In my Taiko no Tatsujin guide, I managed to refute all copyright claims and won all of them. Give or take, this was a several years ago. There was one video that got region locked, but youtube assured me that it wasn't a copyright claim.
The song was called "Knuckle Heads" from the NHK Music Group.


lightning mcclaim needs to be a real character


If I were that claimant, I’d be happier to have my real name used than be called Lightning McClaim.


i used a song from the youtube audio library and still got claimed. big bruh moment


Copyright smugglers be like:
I'll steal it. No one will ever know!

Copyright smugglers be like:
*I'll steal it. No one will ever know!*


i would like to mention on the video game music section that there was a huge shit show back around 2014-15 with specifically the SMT: Persona series where a russian actress copyright claimed a bunch of songs from ATLUS and got a good couple of channels removed due to her actions, which i find absolutely fucking hilarious in hindsight cause she of course had nothing to do with the series at all. eventually it stopped and now you can search for them and get good results. i am pretty glad youtube is finally adding in rules to claim holders to actually prove that the client is using their content at all


22:45 my guy...Thank you for confirming how good the tf2 soundtrack really is


Step 1: Make your own song (or pay someone on Fiverr to make it for you, but make sure that they give you full ownership of the song)
Step 2: Upload your music to Spotify/Itunes/Wherever you listen to music
Step 3: Use your music in your video
Step 4: COPYRIGHT CLAIM YOUR OWN VIDEO
I know it sounds crazy, but this is how it works. If one person claims a video, then the owner of the video gets nothing, and the person who claims it gets all the money. If TWO people claim a video, then the monetization is split between THE TWO PEOPLE WHO CLAIMED IT. Therefore if your video gets claimed for something stupid, but you already claimed your video for having copyright music (your music) then instead of losing all the money, you're only losing half

Step 1: Make your own song (or pay someone on Fiverr to make it for you, but make sure that they give you full ownership of the song)
Step 2: Upload your music to Spotify/Itunes/Wherever you listen to music
Step 3: Use your music in your video
Step 4: *COPYRIGHT CLAIM YOUR OWN VIDEO*
I know it sounds crazy, but this is how it works. If one person claims a video, then the owner of the video gets nothing, and the person who claims it gets all the money. If TWO people claim a video, then the monetization is split between THE TWO PEOPLE WHO CLAIMED IT. Therefore if your video gets claimed for something stupid, but you already claimed your video for having copyright music (your music) then instead of losing all the money, you're only losing half


ok, this is something happened to me about 10 years ago...

I uploaded a video I made of me playing my original piece of music with the camera pointing at the sky. It got copyright claimed. I appealed the decision, and lost. I deleted my channel in response. Then came crawling back years later, dammit...


Normally i try 8 bit versions of the songs on the video. At least the youtube audio fingerprinting have no chance to get it by itself.
Oh, he said that...
HE HAS IT ALL... My hero.


The copyright system as well as American law must be torn down and built once more so that everyone can understand it and that it doesn't take 5 ever to be able to use content.


Wait a minute, Emp got claimed for saying "who lives in a pineapple under the sea."

someone's vlog got banned for music playing in a shop he was walking by.

drenn so it begins...

Everyone claiming copyright of everything to everybody.

No one paying and everybody in debt...

drenn happy birthday is copyrighted they just couldn’t actually charge or claim people for singing it in person.

Go ahead and upload a video of you singing the original happy birthday song on YouTube. You’ll see they still copyright strike that.

people tried to make  "happy birthday" copyrighted<br>everyone singing it in birthday parties would have to pay

people tried to make  "happy birthday" copyrighted
everyone singing it in birthday parties would have to pay

Jokes on us, memes are already banned on youtube.

Yes I think so. People have gotten claimed for humming lyrics to a song so saying the lyrics of the song would probably count as crooked as it sounds.


Btw gonna plug this in here, I really recommend listening to the Spin album referenced at 20:37 and its a great for background music as well.


Mann, so it all boiled down to: Use video games for footage, and use video game music for music, those devs can be taken advantage of


I successfully appealed a claim on a Beatles song. Lmao I have NO idea how. I felt like I won the Internet.


13:13 - This is the same reason why the song 'Bittersweet Symphony' by the Verve was claimed by the Rolling Stones. The sample they used was in the public domain, but when the Stones used it in their track it suddenly became copyrightable again.

Sad, the Rolling Stones are fucking amazing, but I guess that's what happens when like a third of their work are covers of 50's blues.


Now, I'm not saying it's ethical to copyright smuggle content on Youtube, but

...it is ethical to copyright smuggle content on Youtube.

Now, I'm not saying it's ethical to copyright smuggle content on Youtube, *but*

...it is ethical to copyright smuggle content on Youtube.


Been getting away with using non-IOSYS songs with my SoulCalibur VI touhou vids but with ads being run regardless of your video being monetized or not, I wonder if there's a point to my efforts moving forward.


Reaction vids don't deserve protection from copyright claims while real content gets flagged.


I once used a cover of a song in one of my videos. It was claimed... by the original record company. The melody was the same, despite the instruments and lyrics being different from the original recording. What a load of ass.


Goddammit man get to the good stuff! The shit we wanna mainline straight into our videos and ears,  🎶 🎵!


Ironically, Casiopea, the album showned in the video, is hard to find since some months on Youtube and the internet in general. Sucks cause that's one of my favorite album, and it's high priced on discogs.
Spin is  still around, and even in the recommendations on the right part of my screen right now.

My biggest fear about Youtube is that the channel Terminal Passage gets terminated someday. I would actually have real trouble recovering from this since nearly all the songs I listen are coming from there.


Classical music gets claimed because labels are saying a performance of a public domain piece is too similar to a recording they have of an artist performing the same music (record labels and songwriters/composers have their own, separate ways to claim royalties and lay stakes for copyright) and the person uploading the music is infringing on the recording. It's total bullshit.


When I was a kid I made some Youtube poops, and one day I was hit by three strikes at once by a company whose name was all in Japanese or Chinese or something. They were just shitty Super Mario World cartoon and Zelda CDI poops. I must have been about 13, I remember I was really afraid seeing all this official stuff, and I thought some people were going to come to my house and arrest me. But I think even now I would feel the same way. I think a lot of people don't even realize when the claims against them are nonsense and will just be frightened and let it happen without putting up a fight.


To fully maximize content smuggling, create a song that is unique and easy identifiable. Register that song with a label, they put that song into the Content ID System. Use the song as ur outro and claim your own videos for part of the revenue.


Even with the royalty free music you can be hit by a riff that’s taken from copyrighted music.


Fun fact:
Jagex was one of those companies that was really strict about copyright and runescape gameplay being featured in videos.
I originally started youtube making flash gaming videos, and runescape videos back in like 2006/2007, and got permanently disabled for having too many copyright strikes from Jagex LTD.


when tyranny becomes law copyright smuggling becomes duty


For my videos I began using my own custom-made 8-bit chiptune remixes of songs arranged in FL Studio, but sadly it's not entirely effective: one of my LEGO tutorials got claimed because of chiptune covers of '90s grunge songs in the background – and worse, another video got claimed for using a chiptune remix of a public domain classical song from the 19th century. For the latter copyright claim, YouTube said my 8-but cover of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" belonged to Disney, so I had to provide links to the Wikipedia article about the song being in the public domain and how the composer wrote it well over a century ago. I eventually got the video restored with the claim removed after a week or so. But anyway, I'm looking forward to hearing my 8-bit chiptune remix of the Downward Spiral theme in your next video!

Yep, can confirm, it can detect a chiptune covers as well

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I almost couldn't tell whether this was some sort of ironic hyperbole. It almost madden me that these policies are in place the way they are. Absolute horseshit!<br>I think you're lucky anyway since I've heard in many videos that appeals and other ways of reaching out amount to nothing if you don't have the proper connections.

I almost couldn't tell whether this was some sort of ironic hyperbole. It almost madden me that these policies are in place the way they are. Absolute horseshit!
I think you're lucky anyway since I've heard in many videos that appeals and other ways of reaching out amount to nothing if you don't have the proper connections.

That's actually a scary thing to hear about. Disney is really scummy, and has been trying to prolong the period during which the author gets royalties and the rights of the work belong to them (and after which, said work goes to Public Domain). In fact, they've been gradually doing this since the 1950's, by relentlessly lobbying the lawmakers - first they got it changed from 35 to 50, and then to 70 years.
These bills and legal acts were first introduced with the right intent - to make sure, that the author and owner of intellectual property would get paid for their work... But if you ask me, making this "copyright protection period" even longer makes no sense at all, because the work in question would've been copyrighted for much longer, than that author could possibly even be alive. In other words, the copyright would then outlive the creator by orders of magnitude - but who knows. I mean, at this point, there's no telling what Disney is gonna do next.

That's actually a scary thing to hear about. Disney is really scummy, and has been trying to prolong the period during which the author gets royalties and the rights of the work belong to them (and after which, said work goes to Public Domain). In fact, they've been gradually doing this since the 1950's, by relentlessly lobbying the lawmakers - first they got it changed from 35 to 50, and then to 70 years.
These bills and legal acts were first introduced with the right intent - to make sure, that the author and owner of intellectual property would get paid for their work... But if you ask me, making this _"copyright protection period"_ even longer makes no sense at all, because the work in question would've been copyrighted for much longer, than that author could possibly even be alive. In other words, the copyright would then outlive the creator by orders of magnitude - but who knows. I mean, at this point, there's no telling what Disney is gonna do next.

I feel they would claim songs for using a note that the other one used, not even the same context or pitch, just "You used E, i'm sorry pal"


YouTube continually stressing and pushing the line of "I cant leave youtube its not that bad theres no where else to go" to the point people are gonna start uploading to fuckin facebook


You wanna talk jacked up sampling logic: the tracks that come with iMovie and Garageband are essentially unusable because so many hack "musicians" have used them unaltered as the backbone for their songs, that they instantly get claimed by some nobody. Despite clearly being royalty free in Apple's terms.


When I play Metroid on the NES, I owe royalties to a rap artist who used a nearly unedited music track from that game and called it a song.


I sometimes hear on youtube songs with one its audio channels had its phase inverted, producing a discomforting, through-your-head sound.<br>Is this valid technique?

I sometimes hear on youtube songs with one its audio channels had its phase inverted, producing a discomforting, through-your-head sound.
Is this valid technique?


Your advice about game music should come with a strong disclaimer. While there is a lot of original game music out there, the fact is that there is also a fair bit of game music which is licensed from artists or music companies. You can get copyrighted by uploading game footage with in game music because the music is licensed.


You think that's bad? Youtube once demonetized my whole channel claiming that it has copyrighted content. Only there was no specific claimant, no timestamps. Because there couldn't be, because literally all of the content on my channel, from music, through sounds and visuals were made from scratch by me. From scratch. Imagine my frustration. I've emailed them back and forth, but they had no explanation for this claimantless claim. Eventually they reinstated monetization a month later - no explanation whatsoever. (PS in case you got curious and checked - this is not the channel I'm writing from that went through this)


Just use Darude - Sandstorm (8bit version) for all your videos. That'll chill the cops on your heels.

Seriously though, it's creators like you that are the sole reason I keep coming to this hellhole, and I don't know how you endure. It's only going to get worse, almost infinitely worse too, come 2020. Not just talking about COPPA, but that's a sizable part of it. Love what you do and know lots of others do too. :D


How would you even go about getting video game music in the first place? What's a safe bet for acquiring it without fear of malware and to get the best quality (because I refuse to use my phone to record audio off a tv)?


The smash documentary line drop was just a hint of what was to come. Wow emplemon even uses foreshadowing


19:21 This joke, so elegant, so freaking hilarious.


I would recommend "The Original Ace's" videos on how to use copy-strike to your own advantage.


i have a theory that popularity of slowed down/chopped and screwed music like vaporwave and ambient was due to copyright avoidance, people had to get creative


you can also just abuse the system to claim your own video


To be honest I think that $50 thing would be an ok thing to do but only if you were able to swap out tracks after uploading. Unfortunately only Gillette can do this as YouTube supports them in their propaganda


I see we've gone from putting ELP as soundtrack to outright citing them.<br>Good.

I see we've gone from putting ELP as soundtrack to outright citing them.
Good.


7:07 not just that, some games have it in their EULA that you can record footage, and others say outright on the startup screen that you can use the footage in any way you want.


I think they should take the revenue based on the amount used,
example:
video is 20:00, you used 5 seconds of copyrighted material, not fair use, you get the 19:55 you made, they get the 0:05 as if it was it's own video.


Slowing down music does nothing to change copyright claims. Haircuts for Men, a vaporwave artist, has had some of their music lost due to copyright claims.


I love how the intro to the music category used a clip from the White Stripes, I wish they were still together as a band :(


15:08 and that’s why i love vapor wave

sometimes it does get claimed, but there’s a few that havent been


"in episode 3, we look at why things are the way the way they are"<br>spoiler alert: its money

"in episode 3, we look at why things are the way the way they are"
spoiler alert: its money

@Edward Elric why do you think the State exists, to protect poor people?
Ask any politician exactly who they work for?
Ask any rich man where money comes from... It isn't magic
It's law

Copyright is a invention of State governments, not youtube.

@pyropulse <br>If you have watched emplemon's video about Viacom and Youtube, you'd really know that Youtube isn't primarily at fault. It's basically the cooperates that want to steal the revenue. Blame it all on Viacom.

@pyropulse
If you have watched emplemon's video about Viacom and Youtube, you'd really know that Youtube isn't primarily at fault. It's basically the cooperates that want to steal the revenue. Blame it all on Viacom.


What really sucks.. is when you upload a video with an original song you spent weeks or months working on, and 30 seconds of it gets erroneously claimed through content ID. So you look up the reference song it says appears in your video and it literally sounds nothing like your content.


Jokes on you, I clicked out of the sponsored ad before you said you'd sic the ftc on me.... but then I thought about it and felt bad and realized I can just go back to youtube homepage in another tab and let this finish in the background. Thank you for doing God's work.


Big beat Mario? Respect.

I make my own music and am happy to give original music to others to fight against YT.


Copyright has saved but moastly destroyed this platform


a lucrative company caring more about money than the content creators that its business model relies on? the legal system rewarding this behavior, as it cares more about said companies than the people it is supposed to protect? wow, who could've predicted this surprising turn of events


Basically: Copyright Laws Kills Internet


“Rarely will you ever find a (video game) song that gets copyright claimed.”

Nintendo: yeah Imma stop you right there chief. ✋🛑


Apparently you can create your own music, copywrite it, and then claim your own video to make money off of it. It even bypasses demonitization.


For shutterstock they probably filed the claim because of an agreement with a client. Gotta remember they make stock images for businesses


Apparently Ubisoft used to heavily enforce copyright on gameplay footage of their games as in 2010 and before that they often took down most videos that included gameplay footage from their games and often got entire channels terminated with a number of those people still banned on YouTube to this day. Anyways there’s also a number of indie developers that have absolutely no reason to take down gameplay videos of their games because of absolutely all of the publicity their games are getting coming from those videos so without the videos their games would forever remain to the side of the internet with not many people knowing about them! :)


Here's a mind blowing fact. Silvagunner exists because of how bad the YouTube copyright system is. The "game rip ost" genre was created because there was no other way to get the songs and they seemed to be claim proof. SiIva took this trend and made a big meme out of it with his high quality rip series.


Holy shit, I got a movie review content claimed constantly, but by cutting a few clips shorter and jumpcutting them, it got through :D


We are all clowns, and we live in a society

"We live in a society, but we live in it TOGETHER"


What do you put the odds of this video getting claimed for the background tracks?


I'm a music nerd and I certainly respect you (anyone who uses Van der Graaf Generator's music is all right to me).

Can you timestamp it please? Van der Graaf is one of my favorite bands of all time. I think the only bands I like more than it are Yes and Genesis


I'm glad you at least had the decency to credit Rusty Cage's background music smh


Difficulty levels of copyright smuggling
Photos = Easy
Video games = Medium
Videos = Hard
Audio = Fucking impossible


"click off this add and I'll make the FTC fine you 42,000$"

I'm here waiting for him to make a whole video rant about the COPPA situation....


I once made a parody of a famous music video wherein I replaced the audio & all the actors heads with anime girls (do not ask). Took me months. I tried flipping, cropping, overlaying, hue shifting, noise adding, panning, all without success. What worked? I ran the whole thing through a neural network style transfer AI thing. Came out looking like an acid trip but was finally able to get it past youtube.


The way to win the metagame is to not play. Last time I tried I used music from BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR and it was claimed. I quit. YouTube should only be a hobby, not a source of income.


Don't forget that if Youtube REALLY hates you, you'll get copyright-claimed even if you don't have any content.  That's what happened to Mister Metokur.


6:43 yeah its pretty sad how nintendo almost shut down super smash bros melee at evo 2013 and telling them they couldnt legally stream the event despite the fanbase raising money for charity to get the game at evo in the first place. That being said nintendo doesn't act that way any more and they've learned a lot (but they still don't support the competitive scene like other esports do smh)


This is a really good and educational video. I highly recommend homestuck music for copyright free music. Even though the web comic itself is controversial, the music itself is good, diverse, basically copyright free, and there's hundreds of songs so you won't run into redundancy issues.

I mean, I am SO for creators using HS music in their videos.

@Jared K no shout out to the original megalovania from the earthbound holloween hack

600+ songs for the official albums and tons more fan music, unreleased demos, banished to the underworld songs(rip bill bolin music)<br>but man, it all starts to feel the same until vol. 6-10

600+ songs for the official albums and tons more fan music, unreleased demos, banished to the underworld songs(rip bill bolin music)
but man, it all starts to feel the same until vol. 6-10


what if a Youtuber found something to copy-write strike a big media corp for something? for instance if a news website reported on a meme or video without their permission? if the media corp went to court to actually fight it and win... would they not be setting a future precedent for fair use?


I don't think it's even possible to legally withdraw a license from something already licensed? I know that open source software will always remain open source independently of the wishes of the creator, and all they can do is to release a new version with another license, yet the older one will be open forever.


21:29 I know this video is 2 years old, but a popular video game soundtrack channel was completely wiped due to Nintendo's copyright claims


Actually emp, at roughly 4:30 in the never ever, the "ooooh" from the start of the title song is in whatever the remix that's playing is. Is it bullshit? Yeah. But I am pointing it out that it's there in the slightest tangent.

Actually emp, at roughly 4:30 in the never ever, the "ooooh" from the start of the title song is in whatever the remix that's playing is. Is it bullshit? Yeah. *But I am pointing it out that it's there in the slightest tangent.*


As a reviewer of copyrighted garbo and sometimes running into this crap, I’ve been eagerly waiting for this vid since the last one.


Using watermark photos is easy pickings for stock photographers to claim your whole video. Fish in a barrel comes to mind.


"Avoid songs with recognizable baselines" <b>ends video with rock and roll part 1</b>

"Avoid songs with recognizable baselines" *ends video with rock and roll part 1*


I wanted to be a youtuber... went to school for event and promotions management, learnt law, learnt how dumb copyright and trademark law is, and left entertainment industry. Copyright law is straight up evil


I've heard people getting struck now for using the 'melody' of a song, so stuff like 8 bit/MIDI covers aren't safe now either


Honestly I'm glad I get to listen to all this smash and TF2 music. Music companies are evil and Nintendo is a bitch but I like that music


The Spiffing Brit situation was even dumber, because he had a license for every image he used, but he didn't have a license for the watermark.


I've made tons of videos using Metal Gear games. Around 75% of those videos are claimed by Konami. 2% are claimed by remixers who sampled music or audio from Metal Gear Games.


21:15
Oh man, that one aged well huh? Still the most infuriating shit.


Then coppa comes along and makes this look like a joke

They can try, but machines will always have their limits.


what i learn from this: using raw music will get me hit by copyright sooner than if i do mess with it


Reaction video is fair use.  Playing video games is fair use. commenting on videos can be fair use . None are copyright smuggling


I got hit with a claim once, which on its own isn't a rare thing, but it was for a Stepmania video where I replaced the audio with my own remix, which I realized I could do. I'd posted versions of this remix twice before, and neither of those got claimed


Hey Emplemon you showed the color red too many times, prepare for the court because I have lots of ground to sue you!


This series has been hugely helpful for people like me who hope to post mixed-media content soon.

Also, what is that song at 10:40?

𝖁𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝕴𝖗𝖐𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆 🐲 𒀭𒌉𒍑 𒄫 𒅇𒋗𒃲


wonder if an adversarial machine learning attack can actually distort the audio so that Youtube cannot recnognize it but a human brain can


Once I get copyrighted by a music that nobody hears because it's sounds like ambient noice.<br>Ambient noice with copyright, that's a new one for me, the song is real and the claim is understandable I guess so I let him get away.

Once I get copyrighted by a music that nobody hears because it's sounds like ambient noice.
Ambient noice with copyright, that's a new one for me, the song is real and the claim is understandable I guess so I let him get away.


personally, if someone uses known music as background music, it's really distracting, so I don't know why they'd even want to do it.


11:35 the only thing that could even hint or copyright infringement or something like that is when emplemon says "who lives in a pineapple under the sea", a lyric from the theme song. if this is true, its both disappointing and expected, since mrbeast got claimed for saying the lyrics to a song he didn't even know in a baritone voice in a video of his, like shown inside this video.


Game OSTs in general have a lot of variety. Like Paper Mario The Origami King has a song that mixes Arabian and Disco.


I want copyright laws in place to protect people from having their work claimed as someone else. IDGAF if someone uses my content for their own creative freedom. Just dont claim that my work is yours.


At least it's kinda fun as a challenge and making your creativity work


isn't that the guy who only says "downward spiral", like a stroke victim, in real life?

I mean this is still a reference to Simian Jimmy’s fake drama about Rusty Cage’s background music.

@Player-87 Please don't make the joke we all know you might make. People don't understand things sometimes. Poe's Law, 'member?

@Benjamin Burke ...and just like that, right over you head. xD

What are you talking about? EmpLemon originally made videos called YouTube Poops. A community of people who made these kinds of videos has been around for a while. Emp found enormous success with breakthroughs like the Uncredibles and Frying Nemo, but those in the YouTube Poop community began to resent Emp, and a hostile relationship developed. Eventually, some creator that Emp really respected put out a statement saying that "EmpLemon has been on a downward spiral mentally, and now he's lost it completely." Emp turned this around and made it his catchphrase. It's not a reference to any real-world person who only says downward spiral.

@Dragon empress It's a reference to a Mumk- I mean a Simian Jimmy video.