[alaskayorkie]

Originally Posted by Nancy1999

Well you can do it, but if or when you get caught you will get an e-mail saying that you have violated the agreement with them. You only use to get caught if someone reported you, there are millions of videos, and in the past, most people didn't get caught. However, with new digital music recognition programs that the major music companies are using, it's much faster for them to find videos that have used their music, and report them. So U-tube will be changing, and not in a good way.

Thanks, Nancy, for clarifying. You're exactly right. And thanks everybody else for the suggestions. I'm just seeing your replies but will check them out.

I've gotten all my music for Yorkie vids legally off iTunes. I can listen to it to my heart's content, but I can no longer use it as background music on my vids. I'm just glad that they're not trying to prosecute anyone and that youtube is giving us an alternative to taking them down completely. It's definitely not youtube's doing. It's the music industry's.

And hviola, I'm not sure about parodies that use names of copyrighted characters. It may be technically illegal, but I don't think they have an easy way to search for that yet.