It seems there are two different things at play here, at least from what I've been reading this morning over at CDBaby (I use CDBaby to release my music).

For the digital music places like Spotify, iTunes, etc., it seems only necessary that you have the rights to use all the tracks used to build your song, and of course we do when using realtracks.

It seems that Youtube monetization is different however. I found the following:


Quote:
Eligibility:

Songs that you control all of the master and publishing rights to.

Use only your own material for which you have exclusive rights.
Use third-party material for which you have exclusive rights.

The following examples are Ineligible and cannot be used for YouTube or Facebook Monetization:

Content licensed non-exclusively from a third party (such as samples that are not exclusively licensed)


I don't claim to understand legal stuff, but wouldn't the above sentence exclude realtracks because we don't have exclusive rights?

Having said that, every song I have ever released through CDBaby is also opted in for YouTube Monetization and I have never received a warning from them about it.

The article I quoted from is here: https://support.cdbaby.com/hc/en-us/arti...t-be-monetized-

Dave

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