You cant use music from pond5 on youtube for Monetization

Either the musician or a publisher can put music into youtubes content id program. The only way a publisher can is if they have full exclusivity (only they have the music available to license), and that is a YouTube policy so there aren't conflicts. Since music is available on Pond5 it means no publisher has exclusivity of the music. The only other reason it would trigger is the musician uploaded the music into the content id database, or it was just a flat out accident and youtube identified it incorrectly. Either way you purchased a license from Pond5 to use the music so don't worry.

It is absolutely not Pond5's fault at all. The best thing about the Pond5 marketplace is they make it very easy to get a hold of the musicians. If you have questions before you license a track you can always send an email. If the musician is to cool to get back with you in a timely fashion, there are a lot more fish in the pond as they say.

Either way you purchased a license that is appropriate so don't worry. Remember it's not Pond5, it's not PRO membership, it is a YouTube Program called content id.

MuscoSound explanation is very clear .I have sold music files here to customers that added them to youtube and vimeo with no problems or rejections.

Dear AbstractZen,

I always get "The Dean's List" each week from the ASCAP and they had this article.

http://musictechpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/how-youtube-monetizes-your-songs-to-sell-illegal-goods/

It's rather sad when google can pay 500 million in fines and everything is better.

Anyway, I read this and thought of your forum post and how content ID is effecting everyone. Take care.

Sincerely,


Nathan Luis Steinke
Owner/Composer/Publisher
http://www.liftedCREATION.com

Please check my music!

Dear malkermusic,

Spamming is hard to take my friend. No one likes it, not even you. My suggestion is, try to add to the conversation otherwise you make yourself look desperate and petty, which of course your not. So. You must stop what you are doing and go back to the drawing board and come up with a better way to advertise your music. Personally, I hardly do anything people tell me to (unless it's GREAT advice)...So when you say "please check my music"...most won't - just because you told them too.

We LOVE free will. Try to capitalize on that!


Sincerely,




Nathan Luis Steinke
Owner/Composer/Publisher
http://www.liftedCREATION.com

As artist you can choose a 3rd party publisher to become your YouTube content ID administrator, but they will have very different policies for YouTube content. So sometimes, it will be a problem. Sometimes, not.

a) Some publishers will demand a takedown of clips with your music if it was not sold through them.
b) Some publishers will just try to monetize clips with your music (e.g. by adding a commercial in front of the clip)
c) Some publishers will NOT monetize nor block clips with your music. They will just send a notice to the one that uploaded the clip that THEY are YouTube content ID administrators for this music.

So for (c), you can sell your music through Pond5, and it will not ruin your client's YouTube clips.

Rumblefish is an example of (b). Even worse with Rumblefish: if you sign with them, you actually sign over the copyright of your music to them!

AudioSocket is an example of (c).

Best Regards
/Christian, Craze Music Productions

If you ever signed your copyright away to a publisher you are not allowed to upload to Pond5 because they only accept music to which you are the copyright owner. Basically doing that violates your agreement with Pond5, and probably violates something you signed with your publisher.

Yes. However, signing over your copyright is only required by Rumblefish (...as far as I know, but please, fill me in if you know others that also require it ... ).

I should also clarify that if someone here ever signed with Rumblefish, fear not! You can terminate their agreement (but not before 12 months!) Their copyright-holding is only valid as log as you're signed with Rumblefish. As soon as your terminate the agreement with them, their copyright claims also ends, so then you can upload the tracks to Pond5 again.

One more thing... as you may have guessed, I was signed with Rumblefish long time ago.

The tracks I had with them (not so many) generated a quarterly payment of $350 from Youtube content ID admin system. And that was during the time I had only about 20 tracks...

But as some people have already concluded here... their business model is not compatible with most other agencies and libraries on the market, so I terminated my agreement with them as soon as I could.... But yet... somehow, I wonder what 500 tracks could generate for me today.... By then, I only had around 20 in their catalog... :-/

It's not just P5 audio. Another company Square Enix Co., Ltd seems to be going through YouTube and claiming copyright of audio. This allows them to automatically insert banner ads over our videos and collect money for our videos. So in affect a real good money making deal for them, monetize other peoples YouTube videos.