Question About Copywrite and Making Money

[Zaul]

2 Questions -

If I use OC Remixes in a Youtube Video ( Not for Profit ) Will they get taken down or classed as copy-write, even though they aren't the original songs?

If I use Oc Remixes in a Youtube Video and It got famous enough that Youtube put advertisements on my page and I was making money would it be classed as making money off copy-write material?

Thanks

[The Author]

Short answer: if it ain't your material, you shouldn't make money off of it.

Someone else will be providing you with a long answer shortly.

[Calpis]

As far as I know, YouTube doesn't automatically put ads on your page. In fact, to get those ads on, you have to go through and manually set up a Google AdSense account and link it up and tell it which video(s) specifically you want to put ads on. Sure, YouTube will email you and let you know when a video is available to put ads on, but I don't think they'll automatically just start putting ads on videos once they hit a certain view count.

[Fishy]

2 Questions -

If I use OC Remixes in a Youtube Video ( Not for Profit ) Will they get taken down or classed as copy-write, even though they aren't the original songs?

If I use Oc Remixes in a Youtube Video and It got famous enough that Youtube put advertisements on my page and I was making money would it be classed as making money off copy-write material?

Thanks

1. You can use them in non-profit situations as long as you credit them.

2. You are not allowed to use them anywhere to directly or indirectly make profit from them. Technically speaking, you would have to pay royalties to the original copyright holder in order to do that I think.

[DarkeSword]

"Copyright." Copy-write refers to writing copy, as in advertisements.

[Arcana]

As far as I know, YouTube doesn't automatically put ads on your page. In fact, to get those ads on, you have to go through and manually set up a Google AdSense account and link it up and tell it which video(s) specifically you want to put ads on. Sure, YouTube will email you and let you know when a video is available to put ads on, but I don't think they'll automatically just start putting ads on videos once they hit a certain view count.

In addition they will ask you at least twice if everything that is in the video, including music and video content, is yours and that you own the rights to the content.

As you don't own the rights to OC ReMix songs that aren't your own you shouldn't be using such a video to generate advertising revenue.