Posted: 2014-03-18 | Updated: 2020-09-11

5 Music Licensing Mistakes that Can Make Your Video Disappear from YouTube

YouTube flagged your video for using background music? Here are some common reasons why. I’ll start with one of the most common “suggestions” that I often see popping up in Yahoo Answers, Quora, and in numerous blog posts around the Web. Myth 1: I can use any music I like if I give credit to …

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Posted: 2014-03-04 | Updated: 2019-06-07

How Royalty Free Music Libraries Hurt Music Industry, or Do They?

I recently came across an interesting (and somewhat controversial) infographics by the Production Music Association (PMA). In that infographics, the PMA presented a variety of thoughts arguing that royalty free music hurts the traditional music industry. In this post I’m sharing my comments on the topic. Terminology: What is “performance royalty”? First of all, let’s …

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