Recently had one of my go pro videos deleted from YouTube due to copyright infringement on the music. Anyone know a way around this? Luckily I do a bit of music production so I can bang out an original pretty quickly but it's a pain to upload a video only to have it denied.

but you can surely see the musos point of view....its their art...its their livelihood....and some little SUP guy runs up yipping and yapping coz he can't get something for free

I have posted a few vids on SB. Only one was affected. I bought the song on iTunes, all good. Posted vid, all good. About 6 months later the song was taken off and I got a copyright notice. Didn't go into it, too lazy

mattyongoldy said..
The tracks aren't free I've supported the artist by buying their track. I'm not using their work for commercial gain. Just want to have a banging track on a clip for my friends.

You didn't actually license the track for re-broadcast when you bought the track. You simply acquired the right to listen to it, not re-upload it. By re-broadcasting it, you are ever so slightly diminishing the value of the composition and the recording by providing it for free for others. You can't argue that it you are uploading it for personal use. If that was the case, you would have password protected the upload and prevented anyone except you from viewing it - that's personal use, when only YOU personally will be using it.

As has been mentioned, you can try Vimeo instead of YouTube, although they are also beginning to use the same screening software.

Google has done a very cool thing in my opinion: when a label recognizes a track, it can have the choice of either blocking it, or just getting all the ad-related income be sent to them instead of the uploader.
This is a very good solution, everybody wins.

Myself, I try to be as "authors friendly" as possible, by crediting the music, and giving a link to other youtube videos of the group. I never had a music track disabled anymore, but had seen sometime the ad revenue sent to them (Note: I dont use ads myself).

For instance the music copyright holders of my uploaded video at claimed their royalties this way. They even add a link for viewers to purchase it on itunes.

Or you can just add a music directly from Google catalog (the music note icon), like in

If the copyright holder are too dumb to take advantage of this opportunity to make money, just go to vimeo...