Copyright law says you can't legally do that. You need to get the license and the license covers the use you are planning.

It doesn't matter if you are not making any money and you're giving the songs away for free..... you can't legally do that.


Use of copyrighted material is limited to using it in educational settings such as music classes in a school, and for parody purposes. Aside from that.... nope.

There's a grey area in copyright regarding how it is treated by YouTube and other such media sites. It is essentially out of control on those sites and they are not about to shut down....so they have come up with a kind of compromise. They determine if your posted video is a copyrighted song and they monitize it and pay the copyright owner. If the copyright owner doesn't want it monitized, they will delete it from the site.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 04/09/20 10:20 AM.
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