I made a slideshow with music. I’d like to be able to post it on Youtube and have it be used by a public organization. Or have them use it on their social media sites.
I don’t want to get in the way of copyright infringement.
Any way to get around this or permission, so that the organization doesn’t get into any trouble???
Thanks.
The simplest way is to use music which is public domain to begin with.
I have never done this but if you are using commercially released music I believe it would be prohibitively complicated to get permission, especially if you don’t want to pay for it. The copyright holder has nothing to gain, so you may get no response at all.
What do you mean by “public organization”?
YouTube scans for copyrighted soundtracks but does not necessarily prevent them from being posted. (I have posted videos with copyrighted soundtracks, but these were family videos and not for commercial use.) However, you are subject to a cease-and-desist from the copyright holder and YouTube will take it down if there is a complaint. The same would be true of posting it on the organization’s own web site or social media sites.
The organization is for blood donations locally. About 50 photos and 1 very popular song by Supertramp.
It all depends on how hardcore the copyright owner is. I have uploaded videos with music by artists like Donovan, The Kinks, The Monkees, Al Kooper, Ten Years After and various movie or TV themes without a problem. I’ll sometimes get a note from Universal Music Group or whoever notifying me that they music is under copyright but that’s it. The worst that can happen is they’ll send you a takedown notice. If that happens you can always edit/replace the audio with something from youtube’s library, which has hundreds if not thousands of songs to choose from.
I’d be impressed if it’s anything but “Give a Little Bit” 
Good guess. You don’t like that song???
Or royalty-free. There are many Internet sites offering such music, and the quality can be top-notch. One I use (not free) is nTracks.com – I’m not a shill, just a fan. They will sell you unlimited use of a desired song for a small fee. Pick your genre and your cut, and you can download it, or pay a yearly fee for use of all songs and all variations.
Or post on a site that doesn’t seem to care about copyright. Vimeo.com seems to be pretty liberal, but they charge a small fee to sign up.
Posting things on YT that incorporate commercial, contemporary music can be a crapshoot. Not every theoretically-copyrighted tune is flagged, and there are many false positives. And to make matters worse, it may be years before you get an infringement notice. My advice is to accept the ads they impose if you can, but fight the egregious claims. Works for me.
See, I would have thought “Bloody Well Right”.
I put up a video using music performed by the California Guitar Trio. I got the email of the group from their website. I emailed asking for permission and explaining how I was going to use the video, and he emailed me right back granting permission but explaining that I also needed the permission of the songwriter, and including an email address for the outfit that held those rights so I could do it. They took a little longer to get back to me (about a week) but they also granted permission for the limited time. (I was putting the video up as a promotion for an event and was going to take it down on a certain date, which I outlined in my emails, and which I did.)
It was all very easy, but it wouldn’t have been if I hadn’t had the email about who had the rights and I’d had to find them.
Only about 1000 people saw my video, but neither the performers nor the songwriter asked how many views I expected. I guess they could tell from my email that it was going to be pretty limited.
YouTube has a system called Content ID, and it not only recognizes famous recordings, it identifies the song, no matter who covers it - even a bunch of eight year old kids.
There are three responses:
They put an ad for the original on Google Music next to your video.
They cause the copyrighted music to be muted.
They issue a Digital Millennium Copyright Act Takedown Notice. Three of these and you lose your entire channel.
I have 1300+ videos on YouTube with amateur performances of copyrighted music. Roughly one third have been identified and monitized with ads. Of those, a dozen or so have been muted (usually Led Zeppelin songs). Two have received DMCA notices (from Prince.)
In nearly ten years of doing this, I have only received one “cease and desist letter”, from the Hard Rock Cafe about their trademark. I blurred it out, and now refer to them as “Famous T-Shirt Shop.”
I’m good with all Supertramp. I just meant that was the obvious choice and I would have been impressed if you managed to find a different Supertramp song that was a good fit for a blood donation drive.