Project Going In The YouTube Trash Bin?

Fran! Yay projects! Please doodle what you’re trying to do and how you’re trying to do it. I’m getting lost in your explanation of your fabri-cobbled resistors in a box. Paper and pencils are cheap, informative, and it fills time. You can even take us through each iteration of it not working. Plenty of YouTube channels are solely devoted to the drama of things not working! Like half of all the sailing channels are the drama of their boat breaking. Motor Trend channel was created on the back a single YouTube show about making old 60’s/70’s car junk (not) get down the road. So you’re stuck to scales and arpeggios… oh well.

[also, insert disclaimer about not being a lawyer, etc. here]

UpLateGeek

The other thing you might want to look into is registering the copyright of your outro music. This would allow you to sue anyone who tries to claim the copyright of your videos, by way of a DMCA counter notice. If you win a case and have a registered copyright, you can claim compensation, whereas you can't do that if you the copyright isn't registered. Although I wouldn't try to do that in a video with content originally made by a third-party (e.g. your digitised films), since they'd just move to have the case dismissed on the grounds that you didn't make the original film.

UpLateGeek

The way to get around copyright trolls is to get your music into the Content ID system. You can create an account with a music distributor and get your music published through them, and they'll shove it into the Content ID system for you. Then the distributor claims the copyright of your own video and gives you the adsense (or some portion of it). Here's a link to an article that talks about digital music distributors, and compares them in a huge chart: https://aristake.com/digital-distribution-comparison/. They key rows you want to look at are "Distribution fee", "Youtube Monetization", and "Youtube UGC Content ID Monetization (commission)". Some charge a once-off fee to publish a song/album, some charge a yearly subscription fee, and some are "free", but they take a percentage commission from your sales/streaming/Content ID earnings. Anyway, you've probably heard about this before, but I just found that blog post and thought you might want to check it out if you haven't looked into this in the past.

UpLateGeek