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[HammyCraze]

Hello everyone!

I am thinking about beginning a YouTube channel to educate people about correct hamster care but there is a thing that keeps popping into my head. That would be copyright. Please could someone answer my following questions:

1. How do I know if something is copyright?
2. Why is copyright a thing?

Please could you tell me all that you know about copyright!?
From Hamsterqueen101 xx

[MrCheesy]

So copyright is where you post someone elses thing and say its yours, as long as you dont copy someone elses video word for word you will be fine

[dancinghammy447]

Just make sure you don't put any copyrighted images or videos in your videos.

[Bearthehammy~]

Hello everyone!
I am thinking about beginning a YouTube channel to educate people about correct hamster care but there is a thing that keeps popping into my head. That would be copyright. Please could someone answer my following questions:

• How do I know if something is copyright?
• Why is copyright a thing?

Please could you tell me all that you know about copyright!?
From Hamsterqueen101 xx

One thing you will need to worry about us music, you would have use non copyrighted music. So no for say redio music by bug time artists.

[dogshamsters]

For my YT videos I always make sure to use copy right free music (make sure to double check this because sometimes this is only the case if you pay or something like that, or the website is called 'copy right free music' but not all of it is) and I if I use someone else's video or picture I have permission / give credit

[Robin~]

I seriously doubt you would run into copyright issues as long as the music is royalty-free. If you use any images be sure they're under Creative Commons, or just take your own.

 

Copyright was set in place to prevent stolen works of creativity. So, you can't create a Star Wars movie and publish it because Star Wars is already a thing and isn't under public use yet. But, you can create a fictional movie about space provided it has a different experience than Star Wars.

[Lillias]

I don't know exact details in the UK (because there are some differences), but in the US, if someone creates something (a picture, music, text, other creative work), then the copyright automatically belongs to them. They can file a copyright to have it in the records, but they technically already have copyright the moment the work is created. Copyright means they have the right to limit "copies" of their creative work, including on the internet. So if you are using images, music, or a blurb from someone else; get written permission from them.

 

Really old stuff is in the public domain. This means that the copyright has expired because the creator has been dead for many decades. There are also sites with images and music that specifically allow them to be used, but you need to make sure that the website is legit and isn't just stealing images and music from artists. Music is probably where most youtubers run into copyright issues.

 

If you are relying on specific sources for your hamster care facts, you should cite (mention) these sources. This can be done at the end of the video.

 

Companies usually have trademarks (for the company name, product names, logos, and tag lines), which is separate from copyright. It's okay to review a product, like Carefresh bedding. But you can't pretend to represent Carefresh, and you can't sell items with the name Carefresh on them.

[IsAnyoneThere]

Hello everyone!

I am thinking about beginning a YouTube channel to educate people about correct hamster care but there is a thing that keeps popping into my head. That would be copyright. Please could someone answer my following questions:

1. How do I know if something is copyright?
2. Why is copyright a thing?

Please could you tell me all that you know about copyright!?
From Hamsterqueen101 xx

 

 

Others have answered about what copyright *is* (essentially, that you own the stuff you make, and you shouldn't use other people's stuff without permission).

 

In terms of Youtube:

MUSIC: in the UK at least, it has an automatic program that will detect if you are using copyright music as the background music for a video. If you do, you can *still* make the video, but you have to put a tag on it acknowledging the original author. For example, I made a flying video with a background track by Greenday, and it's fine because it cites that the background music is by "song name - artist". NOTE however: that the laws differ in different countries so a video that is allowed here may not play in another country because you are just straight up not allowed to use copyright material, rather than crediting it.

 

IMAGES: When you Google search for an image you want, there's an option at the top to only include images that you are allowed to use. It's called "permissions" or "usage rights" and the options are:

 

 

... basically, by default, it selects "not filtered by licence", which means that most of the images that come up in a search will belong to somebody, who probably doesn't want you just using them in your own stuff. You wouldn't like it if you created some art or took a photo, then found that someone else had basically stolen it and used it. All of the other options are fine to use. The top two on the list mean that the original artist is happy for you to use their stuff and share it, but doesn't want you to change what they did. So, like, don't take the image and put stickers or a filter on it, or crop it and put it in another image. The bottom two options mean you can use the images however you like

 

Hope this helps. I really wish people had more awareness about copyright and intellectual property. I have had too many friends who are artist and musicians upset when they suddenly see something they created appear on someone else's Etsy shop, or on some Youtuber's channel, or even worse (and yes, this has actually happened to a friend of mine) being used *without permission or payment* in a commercial brand line.

Edited by IsAnyoneThere, 26 June 2020 - 08:13 PM.

[allkpop]

Yes, agree with all commentators above, according to YT laws, you can't use in your comercial video any type of content that contain copyright. It means if in your video will be music that under protection copyright, all money you reicieve from them will be gained to member of licence. 

 

According to my experience don't use any music at all, exception is royalty free music free that you can download and add to video. Youtube have their own tool to add music while you publishing video.