Fingerstyle arrangements and Youtube's copyright.

lacatedral · #1 01-14-2018, 12:02 PM

Greetings, so I'm about to upload some popular songs arrangements I made for fingerstyle guitar in YouTube.
I was wondering if:

1. As I researched, the licence given is the standard one, so will I have any issues with the videos (considering they are arrangements of Sia, Shakira, etc...) being take down. I've seen many videos of fingerstyle arrangements but I'm not sure if they pay to someone or not.

2. I'd like to share the tabs/score of those arrangements in the description of the video for free, I don't know if that's a legal problem also.

Teleplucker · #2 01-14-2018, 12:14 PM

You can give away anything. You cannot sell your arrangements without paying the owner of the music.

lacatedral · #3 01-14-2018, 12:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Teleplucker

You can give away anything. You cannot sell your arrangements without paying the owner of the music.

a) I was thinking in putting the URL of my tumblr blog in the video's description, so anyone could just get there and download it.

b) Option B would be to put a ad.fly URL to the tab file itself.

KevWind · #4 01-14-2018, 03:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lacatedral

Greetings, so I'm about to upload some popular songs arrangements I made for fingerstyle guitar in YouTube.
I was wondering if:

1. As I researched, the licence given is the standard one, so will I have any issues with the videos (considering they are arrangements of Sia, Shakira, etc...) being take down. I've seen many videos of fingerstyle arrangements but I'm not sure if they pay to someone or not.

2. I'd like to share the tabs/score of those arrangements in the description of the video for free, I don't know if that's a legal problem also.

1. This depends on some things that are beyond your control and if the copyright holders have an agreement with Youtube or not

2. That one I do not know about

You might check out this video about how to use the new copyright search feature in YouTube