Created by Jeff Besos in 2013 Audiam gives music creators the ability to collect music royalties through
YouTube anytime their music is used in a video. Ipersonally have been using them since launch but recently i
discovered something that makes the service virtually useless for me and possibly all electronic music
creators,see i am a rapper and hip hop producer and audiam’s terms of service now states no music with
beats,loops,sounds from sound packs,drum kits or any daw that is available to the public, any licensed royalty
free sounds etc can be added to their service for royalty collection.This leaves all the modern day online
producers out in the cold,while i understand why they did this having received a couple of YouTube copyright
claims from other producers because we both used a sound from the same sound pack and considering there
are now millions of online producers the claim disputes must be through the roof but is there no way to take the
entire composition ,melody, sequence into consideration and not just one sound? Unless you compose every
single part of your music yourself your shit out of luck with protecting your releases on YouTube from would
be beat pirates.
Artist who lease or purchase or even use free downloads your finished songs will suffer the
same fate if the producer used any sounds or samples that another producer may be using.
Don't get me wrong audiam is an awesome service and the issues is not with them its with how
you tube identifies copyrighted music but until they get it right the great service that audiam provides
is going to be hindered.
Producers be careful when selecting your sounds and artist be careful when selecting your beats your not as protected as you thought.
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