royalty free usage proof

WendyLuvsCatz

how do you prove you have the right to use Daz content and software?

I am having issues with monetization and Youtube
Dear wendyvainity,

This email is regarding the monetization of your video "Drow Tales" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uatextuSQC8). We need to verify that you are authorized to commercially use all of the visual elements in your video. Please provide the following information so we may examine your claim:

Name of the video-game
Name of the video-game publisher
Direct link to the publisher licence terms, permitting commercial use of game footage
Please note that messages, comments, and postings from social media websites (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc.) or blogs may not be sufficient to establish your commercial use rights

If you would like to monetize videos that contain video game content, please refer to our Help Center.

Please submit required information here. Note that your video may not be monetized if we do not hear from you within 14 days.

YouTube reserves the right to make the final decision whether to monetize a video, and partners who repeatedly submit ineligible videos may lose the ability to monetize.

Thanks,

The YouTube Team

[email protected]
10:25 AM (41 minutes ago)

to me
Hello,

Please provide us with documentation proving that the proper fee(s) have been paid to the website (Daz 3D) in order to confirm commercial rights to all of the content in your video. Thank you for your cooperation in this regard.

Also, to assist us in processing your submission for monetization, we would like for you to provide us with more information regarding the license agreement for the audio (music) contained in your video. Specifically, we need for you to confirm that you have been cleared to use the aforementioned material for commercial purposes. You may e-mail us this information as an attachment or provide us with a direct link to the terms.

If you would like to monetize videos that contain audio from or created from software, please refer to our Monetization FAQs at http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=2490089.

Sincerely,

The YouTube Team

On 02/11/14 12:20:59 my email
full_name: Wendy MY NAME
email_prefill: MY EMAIL
gamename: not a game, models by Daz3D rendered in Carrara 8 pro and iClone
5 pro
vidgame_pub: see above and Daz3D, Reallusion
vidgame_TOU: http://www.daz3d.com/eula
http://www.reallusion.com/Reallusion_Content_EULA.pdf
http://www.reallusion.com/Reallusion_EULA.pdf
comm_use_rights_details: I used animation software and rigged models to
make this video and all my others using computer graphics.
Carrara 8 pro, iClone 5 pro, Daz studio 4, Poser pro 2012 among others, and
bought content
static_subject_line: YouTube Partner Support - Monetization Claim
video_id: uatextuSQC8

WendyLuvsCatz

the music will be harder as not sure what they want, gave links to scores used
I performed it

icprncss

They probably figured game when they saw the Drow reference. Good old Gary Gygax and D&D. Tell them to look it up in Funk and Wagnell's Unexpurgated Encyclopedia. It's where Gary borrowed it from.

Arien

YouTube can be quite asinine... in the past, they've gone after Heather Dale claiming didn't have the right to monetize videos of herself performing her own music, because she's not working with a big recording company. It was rather messy, for what I remember, and I've got no idea how it was sorted, or even if it was ever sorted out at all. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2KXakxq96w for details. Also, keep in mind that music has rights for authorship, not just performance, so if it's not a piece under Creative Commons, or out of copyright completely, you might still have issues with that.

As for how to prove you have the rights for the content used? Make a list of all the content you're using in your animation, take screen caps of all the invoices where you purchased it, attach all together and send, along with a link to http://www.daz3d.com/eula , which is the EULA that says you are allowed to make movies out of it. That should be enough, although yes, it will be a royal pain in the rear for you to compile.

Faeryl Womyn

Basically you need proof of everything. My son has a YouTube channel and he is working towards having a partnership with them. If you are using music you did not create, you need to show proof that you have permission to use it. You will need to show proof from Daz, iClone and Carrara that you have permission to use said programs in your video. Of the content you used in Daz in your video, you need an email from each artist stating you can use their content in your video.

It's going to take time to collect those permissions, send them to YouTube and then hear back from them. Could take a few months. YouTube is not exactly user friendly especially with the new copyright laws they recently incorporated. They are trying to make it next to impossible to start a channel you can get paid for. Long time users of YouTube who have been getting paid are currently fighting with them over the new rules, even gaming companies are siding with the users against YouTube over their latest actions.

He says the quickest way is to just post the video and if you do get a notice of copyright, then you can produce proof of permission. He also says it's not actually YouTube you are partnering with it's actually companies (in your case Daz, Carrara and iClone), that you get paid from them and YouTube pays the companies. You are also better off getting views and subscribers built up before you try to get monetized. You have a better chance if you build your fan base first.

WendyLuvsCatz

I have 14 000 subscribers

Faeryl Womyn

Check each video and see how many views you are getting and likes, that is also important.

Faeryl Womyn

Sorry was not likes and views it's your analytic, also he said with that many subscribers then you simply need to collect your permissions and my advice is have copies of everything, just in case. Once you have the permissions, send them in and yes I would also suggest giving the link to EULA for Daz and any other items you use if available.

WendyLuvsCatz

I did EULA link first off
hope copies proof of purchase of items used in question enough for example
blacked out my details for public forum
did a heap of these
some poor bugger will have to read them all

Faeryl Womyn

Best of luck to you Wendy and I wouldn't mind a link to your video's, would love to check them out, think you are allowed to put YouTube links in your signature.

WendyLuvsCatz

it is!
the "do not click" will take you straight there!
don't say you have not been forwarned :snake:

Faeryl Womyn

Well I responded to a couple under the name CalieVee. I can't believe how rude some people are in their stupidity, so I showed them their lack of intelligence...lol

WendyLuvsCatz

I mostly try not to feed the trolls
thx anyway! :lol:

WendyLuvsCatz

this is the form they keep wanting me to fill out
I actually can only put NOT APPLICABLE in most of it and a tiny space to explain

Faeryl Womyn

Ya they're not giving you an option to tell them it's not gaming stuff. I am not sure what you can do about that, however, there are two ways to get the answers you need. First is to contact YouTube directly.

This is one way...
http://www.youtube.com/t/contact_us?gl=CA

Secondly, they have a help forum that might have the answers and certainly you can ask questions and hope you get the right help.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/youtube

I also found this site that might help you with contacting them to get the answers you need. It's quite a list of things so read carefully to fine what you are looking for.
http://www.reelseo.com/contact-youtube-info/

Midnight_stories

Wendy you are making too much money out of the advertising that's what it is !!!

icprncss

Here's a suggestion from one of our Legals: demand that they specify exactly what part or parts of each and every video they see as having been derived from a game or other material.

Their implication is that your videos are not original and are otherwise not your work. Essentially they are making a presumption which is not legal. Inform them that you will be happy to provide proof when they show cause.

robkelk

icprncss said:

Here's a suggestion from one of our Legals: demand that they specify exactly what part or parts of each and every video they see as having been derived from a game or other material.

Their implication is that your videos are not original and are otherwise not your work. Essentially they are making a presumption which is not legal. Inform them that you will be happy to provide proof when they show cause.

Does Wendy really want her account terminated for being uncooperative, though? Not saying that will happen, just that it might.

mjc1016

robkelk said:

icprncss said:

Here's a suggestion from one of our Legals: demand that they specify exactly what part or parts of each and every video they see as having been derived from a game or other material.

Their implication is that your videos are not original and are otherwise not your work. Essentially they are making a presumption which is not legal. Inform them that you will be happy to provide proof when they show cause.

Does Wendy really want her account terminated for being uncooperative, though? Not saying that will happen, just that it might.

Basically, the DMCA gives them the ability to do just that, if they don't want to deal with the hassle in specifying everything. Yes, the burden should be on them...but...