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Final Cut sound effect being claimed by 3rd party on YouTube

Head's up all: The Sound effect "Thunder and Lightning 3" from Final Cut is falsely being claimed by A$AP Rocky on YouTube. If anyone at Apple is listening it would really be helpful to act on this as soon as possible as this kind of copyright abuse is pretty common by smaller publishers right now. Final Cut owners should feel safe using the built-in sound effects Final Cut provides.


Posted on Sep 7, 2024 8:35 AM

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Sep 7, 2024 2:45 PM in response to RetroRob

Apple's sound effects and other Music resources have been around for a long time now. They've *all* been used by thousands of people. You have a *license* to use these resources in private and commercial videos, but you really have a responsibility to give credit to those resources which you did not create yourself (and actually, you *should* credit yourself for music and sound effects you create yourself as well.)


Credits need to be applied *in the video* itself — like: Sound Effects by Apple, Inc. —  you cannot get away with placing them in the video description — PLUS — a Copyright notice needs to be applied to your video: ©2024 by Your Name or Entity Name. Videos on YouTube are scanned for this information and that will protect your video, in YouTube, from those idiots who claim copyright using those same resources you're using.


Bottom line: if you stick a copyright notice ON your video with appropriate credits, YouTube will leave your account alone because *they* are legally protected. "Open ended" copyright disputes makes them vulnerable for allowing copied works being "published" on their platform (hope that makes sense).

Sep 19, 2024 9:07 AM in response to RetroRob

Submit a dispute to YouTube and include a link to a screen recording with audio uploaded to Google Drive where you play the audio effect directly from the Final Cut Pro's Audio Effects browser (not from the timeline). It's against YouTube's ToS to have public domain/copyright free content in their Content ID system, so ASAP Rocky is in the wrong here.


To dispute a Content ID claim:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left menu, select Content .
  3. In the Videos tab, find the video with the claim you want to dispute.
  4. To find the video more easily, you can click the filter bar and then Copyright.
  5. In the Restrictions column, hover over Copyright.
  6. Click SEE DETAILS.
  7. Under the Content identified in this video section, find the relevant claim and click SELECT ACTIONS and then Dispute.
  8. Include a link to your screen recording uploaded to Google Drive.

Sep 19, 2024 10:32 AM in response to RetroRob

Just *one* copyright — yours!


Just list the credits like:


Stock footage by *****

If more than one provider - least each under the Stock Footage label (just a list of providers will generally do).


Music "name of track" by ********

If more than one track - list each (name of track by *******) under the Music label.


Sound Effects by ******* [for many Apple sounds, the "by" can be found in the Info inspector > Audio — check for Authors like for Motions & Transitions Wipe 01, the Author is "Detroit Chop Shop", otherwise use Apple, Inc.]


(You can find the actual copyright notice in the inspector for *most* Apple sound effects/jam packs.)


If more than one SoundFX provider, split the credits for each creator, like the stock footage section.


——— it is understood (and automatic) that each of these creators credited has a copyright to their own works, you don't need to post it for them! ———



Then your ©


Basically, just like you'd see on any commercial work, with any similar format you like [Line at a time lower thirds, Scrolling credits on the backend, etc...]. You can be creative with this, just have the credits burned into the video some kind of way.

Sep 19, 2024 9:34 AM in response to fox_m

I like this idea - note that this does not necessarily work at all as I have had other resources claimed as well - even when correctly tagged (I have been on YouTube for over a decade and only had this happen a few times). It's just that the Apple effects should already be "claimed" by Apple - and abuse of this is something Apple should really address as YouTube creators don't really have recourse.


Also note that most music creators specifically ask that you to place (c) information in the description. Bummer if YouTube ignores that as it is the most common requirement.


I can understand on music, but putting a (c) notice on every sound effect in a video would be pretty distracting for viewers and painful for creators. I honestly think YT just needs to work a lot harder on their detection capabilities.



Final Cut sound effect being claimed by 3rd party on YouTube

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