Hi
I’m wondering if anyone has ever run into the issue of getting a copyright strike on YouTube after using some of Steinberg’s samples, especially if they are unedited?
I have heard about cases where someone registers a music track to be copyrighted, and as a result everyone who uses a sample that is used in that track can risk getting a copyright strike on YouTube. Meaning, that royalty free samples, for instance, are suddenly not “royalty free” anymore.
There is also the case of “copyright trolls”, where someone will try and profit from the works of others and it can get them into trouble, even if they made a piece of music themselves, but I digress.
I remember where someone gave the general advice of staying away from unedited samples of premade chord progressions, vocals or anything that is prominent and thar could potentially be registered by the YouTube bots.
And obviously, he also suggested to edit as much of the sample as possible to make it “your own”.
There are a lot of cool stock samples in Cubase (especially if you have huge libraries like Absolute 6) that are too tempting to use out of the box, just as they are. But that makes me wonder about the risks.
Anyone has any experience with that?