In the midst of the era of social networks, streaming, direct and a thousand multimedia content available online, it is important to know whether or not the music used to create content is protected by copyright. The copyright of a song goes hand in hand with it from the moment of its creation until it expires, which in Spain means up to 70 years after the death of the creator, moment from which the song becomes public domain.
If we have found a current song on some kind of streaming platform, on Spotify or other music channelswe have bought a CD… All these themes will be copyrighted and, of course, they cannot be used to publish multimedia content on the internet, even if they are not going to get income or have no advertising intentions.
Check the conditions of the page
In the case of finding a song on YouTube, this platform identifies the music of the videos according to European copyright law and copyright, so it is possible to check what weighs on a song using YouTube Studio or YouTube music library. Both pages contain data on the copyright of thousands of songs.
The same thing happens on platforms like Twitch, which have libraries with royalty-free music or use warning systems when copyright is infringed. In the case of finding a song on the internet, it is best to go to the tag used by the author or the conditions of the page where it has been found to make sure of the type of copyright that weighs on it.
On the other hand, there are platforms with free music and Creative Commons licenses in which it will be necessary to discern when the song can be used for commercial purposes or when not. Usually you have to pay a price to use them, but they work with a subscription model.
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