A company is claiming they own your music on one of my videos!

  Matched 3rd Party Content Cures below...

VERY VERY  IMPORTANT --> If you want help in dealing with any claim against a 3rd party content match on a YouTube video, it's vital that you read the whole of this page.  

I can not help you unless you have already carried out steps 1 AND steps 2 below!  

If your video has been flagged on You Tube by a 3rd party company claiming rights to my royalty free music, then the claim is not valid. The Rickvanman royalty free music you are using is perfectly legitimate to use, and nobody has a right to make a claim against it. NONE of my royalty free music has ever been registered onto any auto-detection system, therefore any claim made against your video is not valid.

What normally happens in these circumstances is that someone will have registered a piece of music that contains within it a general stock music loop that I may have used within the construction of my own music.  The detectors pick up on that single loop and flag it (incorrectly). The claimed matched music content may sound similar in places to my royalty free music, but it is not the same, and is a completely different piece of music.

IMPORTANT CHECK -->  Make sure your video only contains the royalty free music from THIS website.  If you have other music included on your video, even if it's just a short jingle or a snippet of someone else's music, it could be what's triggering the claim.   I can only help with video's that contain just my music.

STEP 1

If the video only contains my music, then you are fully entitled, and NEED to dispute the claim made against your video through the You Tube dispute process, informing You Tube that the music has been incorrectly identified, and that you are fully licensed to use this music according to the terms of the royalty free licence agreement with music4yourvids.co.uk

Once the dispute has been filed with You Tube, the claim might be removed straight away, or it may take many days before the dispute is looked at and settled, at which point the company claiming ownership will either completely remove their claim, or will maintain their claim.

STEP 2

If the company maintains its claim, or does not address the dispute in reasonable time, then you NEED to contact the company making the claim against your video.  Simply Google the company name and go to their home page, then try to find a "contact us" button.

Some of these companies are reluctant to answer emails, so you may need to persist or use strong wording to attract their attention.  I appreciate just how frustrating and annoying this can be as I have experienced it myself recently.

I'm finding these false claims are becoming more prolific, not just against my own music, but also against the legitimately purchased royalty free music that I have purchased and used in my own video's too. It's becoming a huge thorn in the side of the stock-music industry. After discussions with other royalty free music suppliers, I would go as far as saying the activity from some of these 3rd party match claim companies seems to be bordering on criminal.

STEP 3

If you have no success after disputing your claim with You Tube, and after you have attempted to contact the claim company directly and have not heard back from them after waiting a reasonable time, then I can try to help you, but please strictly follow the steps below.

VERY IMPORTANT

In order for me to help you counteract a false claim against your You Tube video, I will need the following:

1) The name of the entity (company) making the claim

2) The URL of the You Tube video being disputed

3) Details of the status of your disputed a copyright claim with You Tube - example below:

"Your dispute is still awaiting a response from these content owners:   

Entity: BFM Digital,  Content Type: Sound Recording"

As you can appreciate, getting involved with a claim can take up a lot of time,  and I can not proceed to help anyone without this vital information.    Sorry, but Messages sent to me without the required information (as explained above) will likely go unanswered. To ask for help please use the contact me page.