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Jan 25, 2014 7:40 AM in response to kmgrby AppleMan1958,★HelpfulYeah, this is a big can of worms.
You cannot use copyrighted material in your movies without the permission of the copyright holder. And you are unlikely to get it. The Beatles are picky about projects where they allow their music to be used, and when they permit it (like, say, an episode of Mad Men), they charge a royalty of tens of thousands of dollars.
In the days before YouTube, we all made DVDs to share with family, and you could get away with using a copyrighted track. It was still illegal, but there was no way for them to find you. Now, with YouTube, there are automatic algorithms where they can spot copyright infringement very quickly. You need to pay attention to this, because with repeated violations, you can lose the ability to post to YouTube.
Sometimes, music rights holders will allow you to use the track on YouTube, even though you are violating their copyright. But in this case, they will sell ads that play over your video and compensate themselves in that way.
So what you really want is to use Royalty Free music.
These two links might provide further help.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3921
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Jan 25, 2014 7:49 AM in response to AppleMan1958by kmgr,Thank you, this is helpful. Though now I feel like I'm back at square one.
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Jan 25, 2014 8:27 AM in response to kmgrby Pieter_from_Ehv,You can send the video to your friends using services like http://wetransfer.com/