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Instagram and copyrighted music?
Posted by on February 25, 2021 at 4:22 amThis is so weird, because whenever I upload a personal video edit of mine to Instagram, a notification comes up within about two minutes of it being uploaded saying “we’ve muted the song in your video because you may not have permission to use it in your country” or something like that. When I tap on this notification, it shows me a full list of countries where the song is allegedly freely permitted to use, and my country isn’t on there. However, whenever this has happened in the past I always appeal to the owners, and within a couple of minutes the appeal is accepted, and the music in my video (aka the copyrighted song, I suppose), is restored. I’ve never had a video completely removed by Instagram themselves before, I don’t make any kind of profit from making video edits, and I buy the songs off of iTunes, but I’m scared I’m doing anything that violates some kind of law? On one hand, I’ve been told that I’m not doing anything wrong by doing this if the dispute is accepted and Instagram restores my things, but only recently I’ve been worried that I’m doing something wrong or technically illegal by doing this when I don’t even know if I actually have official permission to use the song in my country, as my country is not on the list Instagram gives with the full list of countries where the song is legally permitted anywhere, but I suppose on the other hand I can’t be doing anything wrong because Instagram accepts my disputes always and always restores the music in my videos? Someone please please please help me/reassure me with this? Is it just Instagram being stupid or what?
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Technically using music in your videos (even non-monetized ones) without paying for a license is a copyright violation and music labels have the right to mute/take down your video. Buying on itunes doesn’t count as clearing the rights for social media usage. Recently the music industry has been cracking down on copyright violations because they’ve lost a ton of money from no live shows happening. Its an automated filter that targets any use of the audio, youtube and twitch have had similar systems in place for years. Labels are more worried about not getting their cut from large accounts profiting from use of their music, if your appeals get accepted and none of your videos have been outright blocked you’re probably fine.
TLDR: What you’re doing is technically copyright infringement, but your account is small enough that music labels aren’t concerned with enforcing their copyright.
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Use properly licensed music.
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