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Hi all, This is my first post on songstuff. I tried searching "youtube covers" in this forum, in the hopes that someone else has already asked the same question, but couldn't really find anything. If it's already been addressed, my apologies! I'm planning on recording some cover versions of jazz standards and uploading them to YouTube. I wouldn't be using the recordings for any other purpose besides YouTube. I'm trying to find out about the licensing details. A really good website that I found that got me partway to finding an answer is www.harryfox.com. Specifically, this page: https://www.harryfox.com/license_music/youtube_license.html, where it says this: "To use the song composition, you need to negotiate a synchronization license directly with the music publisher. However, many music publishers have entered into license agreements with YouTube permitting the use of the songs they control in exchange for a percentage of any advertising revenues (although in some cases the publisher may set a policy that a particular song is blocked from use)." But, I can't figure out what songs would fall under that category of having already entered into agreements with YouTube. Finding and contacting the publishers of each individual song seems unnecessarily prohibitive, especially if they've already negotiated the agreement. Does anyone know if there is a list anywhere of the publishers and/or works that do fall under this category? It would seem that for people like me (and looking on YouTube for jazz standard covers it seems there are many) it would be useful to both the musicians in question and the publishers themselves to have this information published somewhere, though I can't find anything like this online. I'm guessing that all the people who do jazz standard covers on youtube have just uploaded them without worrying about it, and if they happen to get a take-down notice, so be it. For myself though, I want to be confident that everything is totally legit before I even get started. Some of the songs I was planning on recording (though it's not limited to these) are: Summertime (Gershwin/Heyward) The Girl From Ipanema (Jobim/Moraes) Autumn Leaves (Kosma/Prévert) What a Wonderful World (Thiele/Weiss) Caravan (Tizol) April In Paris (Duke/Harburg) etc. So, the main thing I'm after is finding a way to determine if a particular song falls under the "already existing agreement" with YouTube. Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated! And, if there is anyone who is actually an expert in the field, I'd also be happy to pay a consulting fee to chat with you to get some of these answers. Thanks very much! Tobin