---
name: clear-music-for-a-video
category: media
description: Clear music for a video by verifying composition, recording, contributor, territory, term, platform, advertising, edit, and reporting rights. Use when music will be synchronized with moving images or distributed with a video.
---

# clear-music-for-a-video

Identify every right before treating a track as cleared.

## When to use

- Use for original, commissioned, library, commercial, archival, live, public-domain, or user-submitted music.
- Obtain qualified rights advice for ambiguous ownership, exceptions, union, or jurisdiction questions.
- Do not publish while a material permission, territory, term, or contributor right remains unresolved.

## Procedure

1. Record track, version, recording, composition, writers, publishers, label, performers, source, and identifiers.
2. Define exact use: duration, edit, scene, title, trailer, ad, platform, territory, term, paid media, live, download, derivative, and archive.
3. Verify synchronization rights for the composition and master-use rights for the recording.
4. Confirm contributor, performer, producer, sample, interpolation, moral, publicity, union, and neighboring-right obligations where applicable.
5. Treat public-domain composition and public-domain recording as separate questions.
6. Obtain written licenses or source terms that match the use, entity, dates, and versions.
7. Record fees, cue-sheet, credit, notice, reporting, fingerprint, claim-release, renewal, and takedown requirements.
8. Match the exact edit and file to the clearance register before publishing.
9. Monitor platform claims and preserve licenses plus correspondence.

## Failure plan

- If any material right or use is unresolved, replace the music or hold distribution.
- If a platform claim appears, preserve the notice and license, then dispute or replace through the authorized route.

## Done

- A music clearance register records work, recording, owners, sources, permissions, use, territory, term, media, fees, credits, and duties
- Published-edit verification proves every audible music segment matches an approved license and required reporting, credit, and claim controls