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Re:Shred Video (YC S15) Turns Hours of Video into a Montage ... by mikeshreds on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @12:36PM (#9923510)
the same licensing rules apply if you edited the song yourself to a movie in final cut/imovie/premiere and then posted to youtube. we've found that most times youtube detects content in a video, they'll pre-roll an ad to make sure the artist gets paid.
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Re:Shred Video (YC S15) Turns Hours of Video into a Montage ... by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @01:11PM (#9923840)
So it is legal?
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Re:Shred Video (YC S15) Turns Hours of Video into a Montage ... by caio1982 on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @01:31PM (#9924033)
On YouTube it's "legal" because they have agreements with movie and music industries so they revenue from those ads go to them, not you. Even then, in some countries (Germany?) they flag it anyway and you won't even have the ads option, hence those quotes around legal.
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