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# How To Avoid or Prevent Copyright Takedowns

| If you've been experiencing issues regarding copyright notices or even takedowns regarding your material being streamed on streaming platforms, take a look into the following solutions.

# Users Without Copyright Ownership

To ensure that your stream does not get interrupted, It is generally recommended to use non-copyrighted music and content to avoid copyright takedown notices, effective way to do this is to utilise the YouTube Audio Library, which gives you a wide range of free music to use in your videos without worrying about copyright.

You could also utilise alternative sources of uncopyrighted music, such as:

* [Bensound](https://www.bensound.com/free-music-for-videos)
* [Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/music/)
* [Uppbeat](https://uppbeat.io/)
* [Tunetank](https://tunetank.com/)

Don't feel limited to only these sources, if it's not copyrighted, you're good to go!
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You can find the Youtube Audio Library in your  [Youtube Studio](https://studio.youtube.com/) 

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# For Artists, Purchased Music holders, Copyright Holders, and Labels.

If you have the rights to the content you wish to stream and/or you are streaming and still getting copyright notices regarding streaming your own material:

* If you're an Artist or purchased Music - you would have to contact your music distributor (e.g Distrokid) to exempt your channel from the systems which are looking for copyrighted materials.

* If you're a YouTube Partner, you can exempt channels from Content ID check by heading over to [this official Google guide](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6070344). This is also especially important if you are a Label allowing other users to use the content under your name.

| You can find more information on how Content ID and Copyright are handled in [this Google article](https://support.google.com/youtube/topic/9282364).
| Don't also forget to check each platform's documentation regarding copyright - as each platform might have different ways of handling copyrighted material.