I just love The Eagles! Brings me happy memories. My Mom loved this album. 
I hope you are all enjoying a peaceful, easy January.
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Fun, fun memories being young, with the Eagles playing in the backdrop of my life. Nicely done!
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I made this video private for fear that Iāll get another copyright strike. Got my first one today without any previous notice and they instantly took down my Hotel California video. Like literally deleted it. 
Scary since you only get three strikes and I currently have three Eagles covers up! Apparently they donāt care if you change it to private, either. They will delete your whole account and all your videos. Iām a little freaked out and discouraged.
@newukenewyork you seem to have survived this horror. Do you have help for me?
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One reason I do shorts now. They allow covers if only a minute. But the copyright notice isnāt a strike - it should say the owner allows usage. Unless they donāt. But I havenāt seen that yet. Itās just that you canāt monetize it but I have nothing to worry about there. Iām way off from qualifying for that - lol!
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The Eagles/Don Henley are not safe to cover. I wouldnāt post them at all on YouTube ā not private, not unlisted, not public, not a minute clip. People get away with it but it can get a strike at any time.
A copyright claim or block is okay, but the strikes are scary, I agree. Do the ācopyright schoolā or whatever they call it when you get your first strike, and I believe the strikes expire eventually? But technically covers without permission can get strikes. Itās a danger zone.
Hereās the current list Iāve compiled of artists who like to punish cover artists. To be safe, I wonāt be creating YT content with their work:
DO NOT COVER
- Bryan Adams
- Calvin Harris
- The Cars
- The Eagles/Don Henley
- King Crimson/Robert Fripp
- Michelle Shocked
And here are a few artists Iāve seen strong warnings about but itās unclear whether they are issuing YT strikes, as more covers exist:
- AC/DC
- Guns and Roses
- Ozzie Osborne
- Note that Iāve also seen some warnings about The Beatles, but I think thatās possibly just if their original audio is audible in your video (which is something I avoid with any artist, as itās a different copyright ballgame than covers). Iāve covered over 100 Beatles songs without any strikes. Of course, this means if they start striking, my channel is gone.
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Good to know! Shorts permissions depend on if itās in their official āSound Libraryā - Eagles are there. In my experience, if itās in there, my version is also okay - only as a short. I havenāt had any problems doing a full Beatles song - as long as it was my music. Sometimes it does seem hit or miss.
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Thank you, Ladies. I was hesitant to do covers for two years because of all this, and now I finally got the courage to go for it since others seem to make covers work, and instantly touch fire. Itās so disappointing. I love the Eagles music so much. Donāt they realize itās a good thing to be honored in this way? Now theyāve left a bad taste in my mouth.
@sbs @newukenewyork
Another cover questionā¦
When I released covers on streaming through CdBaby, I earn tiny royalties for each play. Iām wondering if that means there is a similar cover royalty (maybe itās the sound recording portion?) for the videos separate from YT Partner ad revenue sharing?
CDBaby has a separate deal for covers and royalty sharing - mine didnāt qualify because you cannot use Apple Loops and I had a couple in my album. So I donāt know the details.
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This is as good an overview concerning covers and āfair useā and etc.
I am not familiar with this domain, distribution sight, but their putting this up for their folks makes sense. Itās the basics of what I understand, and may be helpful. One, possibly, needs to read through to the end for it to make complete sense. Itās like a 5 min read maybe.
- An analogy may be, and is just how my mind works, if helpful, I offer it such as it is:
If āiā (or anyone) had a song that, Taylor Swift liked, and Covered it - and then got a small CDBaby commission on her Cover of it (hahahahahaā¦, my song) - Iād possibly be more than a little interested in āwhatās going on with thatāā¦ and so it is likewise, if we Cover and especially then monetize it a song in any way.
- If that makes sense? If not skip it - itās only meant to be assistive, if even only just my experiential opinion. We do live in a period when folks not born āthenā, are ānowā hearing material for the first time - a story I read somewhere - āmy daughter came in tonight and at dinner was raving about this new singer she found, Paul McCartney; had I ever heard of himā.
In all the public domain stuff Iāve done, researched, it is amazing at how quickly that person that ācoveredā it, then got attributed as the - āoriginal authorā! Nope, they didnāt! There was a song in the past few months here i saw that, that had occurred - canāt remember which one. They were then attributed as the original author for a song they covered, and was not āpublic domainā. That attribution didnāt matter, thatās not āillegalā, the song was licensed. However, typically the licensing requires āAttributionā to the original author, etc. (Then thereās āwork for hireā - e.g., Motownā¦ TLTR for hereā¦).
PS:
One can search on ādon henley testifiesā for more on him and the Eagles.
Additionally, I think āNapsterā and all those āillegal downloadsā got conflated with āCoversā, each other, and other, like Covers. It may have been attributed to being like illegally downloading the original track (entire albums) and not paying for it - who knows. Things definitely shifted with that as a possibly milestone event. Anyway, folks, or the companies that purchased the work - want to get paid for their product/work-product/intellectual property/or otherwise āprotect itā.
- Possibly, arguably a quick skim of this may be of interest to some:
The Piracy Sites That Nearly Destroyed The Music Industry: What Happened To Napster