 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. I want to show you guys the signup process for a service called Licked. It's a really, really cool website, Licked.co. And it's basically a website that allows you to use copyrighted music on your YouTube videos. It's been something I've been meaning to check out for a while because in a lot of my videos, in order to avoid copyright strikes, if there's any music that like I get incidentally in the background, what I'm doing is filling in with music from the YouTube audio library. It's not necessarily always the best music and it's not music that really fits the footage so much. So we're meaning to sign up for the service for a while, but the first time I looked at it, I got kind of a bit freaked out by the terms and conditions. I thought I was giving this service access to, you know, like all the details was my account. And I'm one of those people that really cares about when I integrate with the third app, I want to see like what data does that have access to. So I want to talk to you guys through the signup process. When I make this video, there's other videos about clicked out there on the internet, but I'm doing this one specifically for those who are like me are kind of a bit edgy about giving terms and conditions. So firstly, let me show you guys what I'm going to be working with. So I put up a video on this YouTube channel a few days ago. There's a coffee shop near me in Jerusalem. They do Turkish sand coffee. So I just re-edited that. I just kind of changed around the order of the shots a little bit. It's really, I think, nice footage of the coffee, Turkish coffee being brewed traditionally in the sand, a bit more of that. Then the cup comes in at the end. Basically all the B-roll I grabbed from the shot and there is a little fade out there at the end. So it's a one minute and 20 second clip. So it's going to be pretty short now in terms of what sort of music I'd want to go along with that. If I went into YouTube audio library, I could definitely find something like Arabic theme, but I'm going to look for something. Maybe I'm thinking like Nancy Adram, who else is I thinking about? I'm really a little bit too old school, but maybe something like even like something very classic Arabic, like Fireu's or something from Awa, which is a modern Israeli band. So I've got a few different thoughts on mine for what I could have to fill in this music. Another thing when I'm doing adding video to music is I always and I add it using a software called Caden Live on Ubuntu. I'll often apply a gain filter to the track where my video audio is and just like crank it down all the way to, let's say, two percent. And I'll play around with this just so sometimes I think it's nice and especially in segments. Once you apply it across the audio track here on Caden Live. So that's all going to be at, let's say, five percent. So pretty quiet, but I can then go into an individual clip and tweak that gain adjustment a little bit. So anyway, let's go now over to the signup process. So here is licked and I'm going to say it says all the music a creator needs. Tell me, I don't want to be on the newsletter. I'm just going to accept the. So usually I don't. So this is why I kind of chickened out the first time. I'm generally very skeptical of doing syndicated signup processes because now licked has access to my Google account in some way or another. But when you're just doing sign up, I think it's pretty much just used for it just gives them your name. So so so far I'm comfortable with it, right? It has my it has my email address and I've signed up through Google and I can log into it. So that's the first integration I got there. I was like, that's fine. But it's going to need a bit more than that because the way this service works is as follows. It's going to integrate with your YouTube channel. So the YouTube is a separate service than your Google account. So now we need to connect to my YouTube channel and it's going to give when you select music and pay a license for a music for a piece of music, it's then going to deal with any copyright strikes on your behalf. So it needs to be integrated. Now, this is where I got cautious or just again, chickened out. So I'm going to go ahead now and select the YouTube channel I want to use here. So I'm going to go into a connect channel. And now I've jumped down towards the end of my channel. This I have a few channels that just use for testing purposes and stuff like that. So I'm going to click here into the one that you're watching, my main YouTube channel. Now, this is what I want to draw your attention to, because the videos I saw for signing up for Lyct really, really glossed over this. And this for me is very important. What exactly does permission does Lyct ask for? So it's not as bad as I first thought. It needs to view it's requesting view permissions for your YouTube account and also YouTube analytics. Now, the reason it needs these permissions is that Lyct is going to be taking in your channel data from YouTube in a read only fashion. And based on your view count, it's going to be charging you for the license. So in other words, if you're a super popular YouTube creator, it's going to charge you more. If you're a small account like me, it's going to charge you less for licensed music. So I'm the type of person that, as you said, I'm on the cautious end of all stuff regarding web security and integrations. I actually always read through these pretty carefully. So maybe it's changed or maybe I was just being more conservative last time. You can click on the icon here and it says view your videos and playlists and view your YouTube activity. So that to me is fine. It's fine that it can view my videos and playlists because I've got nothing you know, sensitive up here, let's say, and it can view my analytics and you can get a bit more info here, pretty much what it says. So that to me is fine. What I wouldn't want is if Lyct had the ability to release videos on my account, because that always freaks me out. If somehow Lyct is hacked and Lyct is hacked and Lyct is integrated with my YouTube channel, they could wipe it of all the videos. So these permissions are fine. And once you have them, by the way, it's possible in Google Security to revoke your permissions to a third party app. And they can't just like randomly ask for more permission. So I'm actually growing more comfortable with the process. So I'm going to click on allow and we'll just wait for a few seconds for the integration to work. And now my channel is added. I guess it's going to take a little bit of time because I have 600 subscribers and it's not showing up right now. And that's the first stage of the process complete. So I'm just continuing to show you guys the signup process in detail because of the fact that this was not something I saw in other videos. It's going to ask me for my name and my country of residence is Israel. And I'm going to accept the term conditions and the privacy policy. And I like this. They're transparent about why they're requiring every piece of information. I'm assuming it's because for tax purposes, so I'm not going to I'm not going to dove any deeper into that. I've already glanced over the TNC and they're fine with me. So I'm going to click further now and go to plans. And I'm going to choose for the pay as you go option because this is something that I only want to use occasionally. And I'm happy to just say, OK, I need this long song. I want to pay for this license and I don't need a monthly subscription because I'm doing this only now and again. It looks like they offer from 10 pounds sterling. This is a London based company. So if you're going to be using this a ton, I guess it would be cheaper to sign up for subscription service. I'm going to go just with the pay as you go option. So I'm going to click on this and I guess you get less music as well. Perhaps I'm not exactly sure, but I'm going to click on on a pay as you go. All right, so my plans now active. So to get this far wasn't wasn't really that hard. Just to just to recap for those who are similarly concerned about data stuff. I needed to sign up. There is no option to sign up with a just with your username and password, which was always my preference, but it does make sense in this case because it has to integrate with your YouTube channel. And in order to have a YouTube channel, you have to have Google account. So I guess that's reasonable. There's there's no way to get around that. So now I'm going to try to license my first song and here's my rate card. So this is telling me now, based upon, I guess my popularity on YouTube, how much I'm going to be paying. So our standard license allows creators to use any licked music in a single video that will be uploaded to YouTube. Your license is granted in perpetuity for the life of your video. So you'll never have to take it down. As always, all licenses are copyright claims free on YouTube. So basically after it's integrated with my channel, it's now calculated my rate card and I have standard sponsors and essential. So standard is, oh, we already did that. Excuse me. So six pounds is, you know, it's going to be very depending on the, you know, where you are in the world and what your local currency is and the exchange rate, all that. Because I'm just assuming most people always watching YouTube videos are US based for whatever reason, it's about 10 bucks. So if you're going to be using two or three tracks in a YouTube video, it might get a little bit, you know, more expensive. But if you're just using one music track throughout your one video, I think $10 to license that track is very reasonable. The second thing to say is that it's valid for one video. So you can't use this, it's licensed to a particular video once it's uploaded to YouTube. So you can't just go and use this, say, okay, I have paid for a license for this song and I'm going to use this song, drop it into five or 10 of my videos. It's on a per video basis. So this license to be crystal clear is granted in perpetuity and licked music licensing is definitely complicated, but licked really takes out the complication because they're striking the copyright agreements with the big music labels. And they're just giving you the simple system of connect to YouTube channel. We're going to give you a rate card, tell you how much it's going to cost, et cetera. If it's a sponsored video, it's going to be more. So if you're being sponsored by a brand to promote their products and that you have to declare that on YouTube anyway, so if it is that, it's going to be actually jump up by 10 times. I've never done a sponsored video yet, so it's going to be a six pound charge for me. So I'm going to go now and jump into the library and pick some music to accompany my random video of somebody making a cup of Turkish coffee. All right, so I said it wasn't going to be stereotypical and use an MRD app song in an Israeli produced YouTube video with an Arabic theme, but that's exactly what I'm going to do. I couldn't find some of the artists. So I wasn't super impressed, I must admit, by the choice of a selection there. I did type in some Hebrew characters who was looking for remixes and I couldn't find those. I tried to fuse radio artists. They weren't there either. Even regarding this pretty well-known song from Amr Diab and I'm not going to play it because I'm not going to license a track for this video just for the coffee one. This was actually, I didn't find the original. So this is actually a remix by a DJ, but I actually quite like this remix. So this is what I'm going to use and I'm only going to be using a, it's a one minute 20 video as I showed you. So just using a small amount of that. The user interface is really pretty intuitive. You can set up a little like list. So if you want a short list browser library and pick out a few songs you might want to use on your next video, you can do that. I'm going to click on the license button and that's pretty nice to give you 25% off your first track. So the first track is only going to cost me. Do, do, do, don't observe how bad my mathematics are. That's like $4.50. So four pounds 50. So it's probably going to be five or six bucks rather than 10. So that is quite useful. And now I'm going to go ahead and pay for the license for this track and then download it and add us into my video timeline. I think that's how this is going to work. We're going to see, find out for myself. All right. So I'm at the checkout phase now and I'm hoping that we're getting near the end here. Now, as you can see, it's added my license for MRDApps Habibi remixed by Boody R. Reedy and it's a standard license for a six pound sterling. It did say there was going to be a two pound discount but I'm not seeing that being applied. It's still saying total to pay six bucks or six dollars, but whatever, six pounds even. But what I wanted to do in this video is really just kind of go on a deep dive and show you guys all the stuff that you might be, you might have not seen in other videos. I'm going to click on the view license button and this is going to bring up really important information about exactly what you can do here. So as it says, look, read this carefully to understand how it works. Allowed platforms YouTube. So that's important to know you can't buy, download this track, upload it to YouTube and then try to do another cut for Instagram or Twitter or Facebook, right? Because those are platforms that are not covered by this license. It's only specifically saying you can use it on YouTube. Restrictions, region, charities, politics, military, tobacco, firearms, pornography. So if your video is regarding any of these topics like this was video promoting smoking or whatever, you couldn't use this video pornography. You couldn't go on YouTube anyway. I'm not too sure these ones might be a little bit more tricky politics because I live in Israel and I do some videos about the political situation here. I'd have to get more clarity regarding that. Usage also says no remixing. So that's important to know too. So I can't download this music which happens to be a remix itself and then remix it. But even if it wasn't a remix, I couldn't then make my own remix. And then it's a lot of verbiage. That's good enough for me to know the key details. And then by clicking on the audio icon, it's gonna be an MP3 file which is okay. It's usually better to get a WAV file but that's whatever. So publish your YouTube videos as unlisted or public so that leaked can clear your copyright claim. So that's totally fine. I'm gonna put this up publicly and now let us continue with this. So payment's very easy. You can either use Google Pay or you can also use Stripe or you can just enter your credit card info. So because I have my credit card on my Google Play account, it's pulled it up. And I'm just gonna go ahead and pay my six, six pounds. So it looks like I did get a discount. So that's nice. Your first because six pounds is cheaper than six pounds sterling. So yeah, it looks like I'm getting a little bit of a cheaper price for my first purchase which is nice if you wanna just test it out like I'm doing. So I'm gonna go ahead now and click the pay button and pay for this. All right, brilliant. So that's gone ahead and it says thank you for your purchase and I can view my license download track. I also have a little referral code here. So that's nice if you want to recommend. I'm gonna pop this in the video description just to be shameless. I can click on view license and see like the exact license that I have here. It's gonna have a unique license number. As you can see, it's got the song and it's got the ISRC ID and it's got my channel and my unique channel identifier there and calculated average video views, 50,000 views per video. That is way, way, way, way wrong. I think only some of my videos got 1,000. So that might be something I need to talk to them with support if I'm gonna be using this but whatever for the amount of money that that cost I wouldn't be so concerned about that. But just to show you that it gives you the full details of the agreement you've concluded and your ISRC number there. So that's really important. Okay, it doesn't end there. There's a bit more to do. So I have under licenses now. I've got my track and there's a little button here for view video attribution. And this is where I'm saying it's a little bit misleading and this is just my feedback for Lick because I think they need to make this more clear. You have to do this. Adding this credit to your video description is a must. Not only as part of your license terms but crediting contributes to healthy artist exposure and shows your support for the music industry. I mean, that's pretty fair. I'm definitely proud to be using this legally. I'm not doing it just for because I wanna support artists which I do by the way but also because I don't wanna get a copyright strike but both are applicable. So you have to copy and paste this into your video description. And I guess that makes sense because when I post my little coffee video I'm gonna have that description and then it's gonna link back to it. So that is so far so good. And now I can download my audio and add as my video editor. So I understand that. So this is good. It's again telling you here that look you need to add the licensing attribution. So in fairness, they do kind of let you know but I still think it could be a little bit clear. I'm gonna click download track and that's pretty much it. As you can see, I've got my like eight megabytes download there finished. And I'm gonna go ahead now and pop this into my video. Okay, so because this is mostly like an experimentary project I haven't like been super amazing about doing this but I've just got the coming in fading in with the chorus fading out and then I've just reduced the gain on the actual audio for most of this video so that it's still there a little bit in the background but it's not gonna be distracting. And that's it. I'm gonna go ahead now and render this out and upload it. Okay, I'm in the homepage of my YouTube studio now which if you are a YouTuber I'm sure is one of the most familiar places on the internet to you as well. I'm gonna go ahead now and find my file. Here it is, sand coffee in Jerusalem in my video render as folder. And I'm gonna go ahead and begin uploading that. I just created a custom thumbnail. And now of course what I'm gonna need to do is go back into link licked and we're going to then copy over the video attribution. It takes a second to load and I'm gonna just pop that into the description. I'm gonna just write a description for the actual video itself. And I'm just gonna put this here and to keep it short I'm gonna get rid of this bit of my video description. So I have gone ahead and added the thumbnail that I created. I've added the music license. I copied and pasted it straight out of licked added it there at the bottom. I've given the video a title and just a one line description. And I'm gonna set the visibility to publish and I'm gonna click on public and I'm gonna click on publish. It's gonna unfortunately be a slow upload because I have to at the moment use a hotspot for a specific reason. So I'm gonna do this now and wait for this video to go online and I hope that there will be no problems. After I purchased the license I also got this email saying that your license is ready to use and it gives me instructions about what to do. Do not set your video to private and it gives me that license as well and a link to it. So yeah, all in all, really happy with this experience. So just as I was preparing to render and export this video and so everyone use licked this tool is amazing. I logged into my YouTube studio. I'm bare in mind if I only had this on YouTube for like, I'm gonna say five minutes maybe and that's something if you've ever dealt with YouTube. I had once I recorded a friend's wedding. Livestream did and it was like on YouTube and it got a copyright not just for the song. This is something that people don't realize that the melodies copyrighted like the band doing a cover was actually detected. These algorithms are freakishly good. So I must say this is actually really disappointing because I thought the putting that little snippet would not result in the strike in the first place. It's not a strike, it's a copyright claim. There's a difference. So you can see here in if I go into my Turkish coffee one everything else, my channel is fine but there is a copyright claim on the video. I've just uploaded. So it says your video is ineligible for monetization due to a copyright claim, review details and dispute the claim if you believe this is an error. Revenue is held separately until it disputes resolves, see details. So what you can see here is that they have zoned in on the right song. It is indeed on behalf of Boody Aready but this has been as you saw in the video legally licensed. So now I'm gonna see how this can be resolved. So I've done what anyone else would do in the situation I put into Google. I've had a copyright claim my video anyway and I got this updated the support resource. It was only written four days ago. So it's pretty fresh from the supports team. It says, don't worry, we've got your back. Okay. I mean, that's fine, but like, yeah, I would say this is kind of disappointing to be honest. Firstly, it's quicker and easier for us to help if you haven't disputed the claim. So don't dispute, so I'm not gonna do anything. Given that my YouTube channels are monetized, it wouldn't have made a big difference as it was in a copyright strike, it was just a claim. But nevertheless, it would kind of defeat the whole point of using this. So I am going to try to use something about it. It says the majority of claims in YouTube Studio will automatically be cleared within 30 minutes by our vouch software. Once resolved, YouTube Studio will update and you'll also receive an email notification from us. So the claim happened really quickly and it's saying that within 30 minutes, this offer they have vouched should actually legitimize and then automatically take that away. If you're still experiencing issues, it says to get in touch with their support team at this email with each of the video link and the license ID. And it says they'll do that and the turnaround time for releasing a claim is up to four hours on a weekday and 48 hours at the weekend. Any ad revenue that's been held during this time will be paid to you. So basically YouTube holds, if you have a copyright claim, I always get claim and strike mixed up. The system is pretty slick on YouTube system. In other words, they're gonna hold the money in a crew. They're gonna hold your side of the revenue or sorry, all the revenue is still being counted if you are already monetized and they're keeping it in a crew. But once the claim is released, they're gonna release it back to you. So it's not the worst, but I would say it's also not the best start to this process. But I'm gonna wait for 30 minutes now and see what happens and whether I indeed have to contact support or if this will clear by itself. Okay, so I've waited the requisite 30 minutes during which Lick said that the majority of claims are going to be automatically resolved because their system, which is called Vouch and that interfaces apparently with YouTube's AI system content ID that automatically detects matches with music and thereby issues copyright claims. Remember copyright claims not strikes. Unfortunately, that email has not arrived and if I go into my YouTube dashboard, you can see I'm just gonna refresh to be 100% fair to Lick. I methodically timed it, it's been now 32 minutes and you can see there's still a copyright claim showing up in that video. So what do I have to say? Firstly, I imagine that this is going to be resolved. Like I don't think it's not going to work. I think it'll probably be resolved by itself but at this point, as I said, most are the majority will happen within 30 minutes. I'm gonna go ahead and email their support people with my license and with my video URL in order for them to look into that. I was expecting, I have to be honest, I did not go into this video expecting it not to work. To me, it looked like a brilliant service. I'm all in favor of legally using music that fair for the artists and YouTubers can use more than what's in the YouTube audio library without having to worry about copyright. First impressions make a really, really big difference and given that this was the very first video that I uploaded, I followed all the instructions carefully and I've still received a copyright claim. I have to be honest, I'm not that impressed. Now, all the videos on YouTube I've seen have said that this is a great product and I haven't encountered other people so maybe this was good to make just to show that it looks to me that there are some kinks in their system that whatever interface, I'm sure it's probably out of their control but at the end of the day, they're in the business of supposed to be protecting people from copyright claims and strikes so given that my very first time using it resulted in that is, again, not so impressive. So what I recommend is or what I use it again, assuming this does get resolved favorably, I probably would but I'd be less enthusiastic because I don't want to be writing emails every single time I try to license a video or watching copyright claims come in and hoping they're gonna be resolved. I kind of wanted something that I just said it and forget it to use that American language and it doesn't look to me like at the moment the product is at that point. This, of course, has just been my experience, other people have apparently used this totally successfully without getting that. The product is nice, the library didn't look that great to me, I was looking for some relatively obscure Middle Eastern music but I didn't find Israeli Arabic music in there and again, on my first time using it, I got a copyright claim so that's not great either. Hope this video was useful and if you would like to get more videos from me, please feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel and thank you guys very much for watching.