Problems with music

Music is a big problem on Youtube these days. Youtube videos that have music from artist or from movies in their videos are mostly likely are going to have their videos muted until they decide how to resolve the copyright claim. If this has happened to you before then you are not alone. Users I know have had their videos muted from these claims and even I have suffered from this sort of thing. When this happens to you, you are given four options to choose from:

1) Audioswap: This means to get rid of the music in your video and replace it with one of Youtube's selection of music. The problem with this is that dialogue and sound effects used in your video will be gone as well and the music may not match with what is going on in your video.

2) Resolove the claim: This means that you will be sending a message to youtube saying that the music that you used in your video is perfectly legit. When I say "perfectly legit", I do not mean that you wrote them in the credits or that you don't own the music. When I say "perfectly legit", I mean that you bought a license permiting that you can use the music. Buying music for such a license from a well known music artist or movie can cost about $100,000 at least.

3) Mute the video: This is self explainitory.

4)Deleting the video: This is self explainitory too.

What i suggest to do when selecting a music for your video is to check if you can use the music. Royalty free music for example, is a type of music that you can use that is legal (You should give them credit for the music though). Some of the royalty free music is free and some costs money. Many websites have music that is free and legal to download, like freeplaymusic.com. I will add on to this article later.