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What content can be distributed to fingerprint stores (YouTube Content ID, Facebook/Instagram, TikTok)?
What content can be distributed to fingerprint stores (YouTube Content ID, Facebook/Instagram, TikTok)?
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Written by Fer Isella
Updated over a week ago

Our Quality Control team will assess your song that contains at least one segment from another song already distributed to music platforms, and whether is eligible for DSPs that utilize fingerprinting technology, like YouTube Content ID, Facebook/Instagram, TikTok, and Soundcloud Content ID.

Our automatic content recognition tool will identify these matches and promptly notify us once you submit your release for review.

limbo music is responsible for enforcing the rules of music platforms. Therefore, if a release was submitted to YouTube Content ID, Facebook/Instagram, or TikTok but doesn't meet the requirements, it may not be delivered to these DSPs, but only to streaming stores.

What can be distributed to stores with the fingerprint system?

  • To Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok:
    ✅ Original content.

  • To YouTube Content ID:
    ✅ Original content.
    ✅ Your release must be delivered to YouTube Music.
    ✅ Your release must not have territory restrictions.

What cannot be distributed to YouTube Content ID, Facebook/Instagram, TikTok, and other stores with the fingerprint system?

❌ Content that you licensed from another party on a non-exclusive basis. For example, content licensed for soundtracks or compilations, or licensed from a production music catalog.

❌ Content that contains non-exclusive sounds, beats, backtracks, and loops. For example, songs containing drum loops or samples that are contained in sample packs.

❌ Content that includes any samples from audio libraries, sound effects, or production loops (e.g., GarageBand loops).

❌ Content that includes fragments of sounds, beats, backtracks, or loops acquired under non-exclusive licenses, even if they allow commercial use.

❌ Content published under Creative Commons or similar free/open licenses.

❌ Public domain speeches, recordings, or compositions.

❌ Audio from gameplay videos.

❌ "Sound-alike" versions that seek to imitate and infringe upon original copyright.

❌ Songs already monetized on YouTube by another distributor.

❌ Content with very generic and typical sounds. Examples: audience applause, simple drum loops, animal sounds, cell phone ringers, laughter, TV/movie dialogues.

❌ Compilations: mashups, countdown lists, continuous DJ mixes, or complete album sound recordings played on a single track.

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