Can You Release Music Using Splice?

Can You Release Music Using Splice Copyright Free Samples?

This is the story of my battle to release music made with Splice samples.

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The playlist is now available on all major platforms (minus the tunes I had to give to Sony)

NFTs

LoFi Angels on Objkt: NFT loops from the Life's Dreaming playlist with hand drawn art

Solsea - Silent Loop - this is 'unverified' because I don't have a following but I promise you can trust me ha ha

I had already started working on the second playlist when I burnt out on this so, who knows, maybe that will find it's way out on to Audius or the dark corners of YouTube one day!

Nice one

[AshElectric]

Hey! Got sent this video by someone else, and yes, you can generate a license cert for each sample you purchase through the app using the little 3 dots next to the sample for when or if you get a claim.

Most claims are automatic, so if you used a loop that was pretty easy for algorithms to spot, it has a likely chance of being used based on the sheer volume of people dropping music and the percentage of those people putting their works on contentID. Huge names use splice, Loopcloud, and now FL Cloud, and it's a problem with the automated systems, not Splice or any of the services that offer loops.

Splicing, editing, chopping, and even just timestretching and pitchshifting samples is an easy way to "get around" filters, but if claims still happen, you still had the right to use the sample, it's just that someone else is virtually abusing DMCA (common thing). Even appeals being rejected is common.

That's the main issue with sample platforms, but it's more a problem with how easy it is to perform auto takedowns than anything else. No matter how much someone says it, if it's licensed from Splice, big chance it's not even a grey area, you're legally in the...green?

(Sample pack creators ripping samples is another story but that only really was a big problem 15 years ago)

[TRXST.ISSUES]

Don’t sweat all these people knocking loops, I stayed away from them for 15 years till I realized it was my ego stopping me. My need to be awesome and significant (how pretentious is that?)

Good thing is people grow.

Keep creating and fuck the big labels tbh.

[unc]

No Splice has to answer for this in their advertising!
Why do we use Splice?
To click on samples that we can only use at home?

[geistbeatz]

I fortunately haven't ran into this issue yet. I make most of my own sounds, but I do enjoy modulating splice samples for some tracks, maybe it's because I edit them so much? Even then, it's a very strange grey area that Splice presents.

[mazhermon]

Wow thanks so much. I was totally assuming I could use splice and release the music I make with some of their samples. Epic save to hear this now. Thanks heaps. From NZ

[abelchristian]

The problem with Splice Is that they dnt show the amount of people that download a sample pack

[fenri]

Thats insane. I looked up wtf splice is because a midi controller im looking at buying it comes with a license.

[hlqa]

Keep chasing bro, this is wack from da big companies, always stomping da people, but ur input is very useful, not using splice seems da way 2 go now

[Sylfa]

Okay, so what they are literally saying is that you can't use piano for music because Mozart did. It's nonsensical.
You *don't* have the copyright to the instruments, you *have* a copyright to your performance.
Though, I'm not a lawyer or anything, but as a software developer I have had to learn a fair bit of copyright law.

A CC0/PD/copy-left license on a sample gives you the full right to do *whatever* you want with that sample. The only thing you don't have, is exclusive access to the base sample. Putting it into a *song* is literally altering it and allows you to copyright *your* song, as performed by you.

You *can* copyright a sample you recorded/produced, if you chose to sell it as a royalty free non-exclusive sample then anyone that got a license from you has the rights you afford them. In this case Splice gives you the right to publish a song made with it, so you *do* have the rights required to publish your copyrighted song.

[KordTaylor]

Man this is a great video. Thank you! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[MankyFrilla]

take the stock drum midi create another midi track below - make it a sax for instance and the midi will make some kinda tune then go in a delete the noted you don't want and keep the shityou do then mash it up with plugins till you get something . . use gates, and that SLOWMO plugin with a tape thingy . .

[emilsundbaum]

You have to generate a license file on splice. If you send that to the distributers they’ll accept it

[MrYEETman]

From what I know Tunecore is pretty awful as a distributer. You may be better off with Distrokid. Also if problems persist, you could try to just recreate the *sound* within those samples. I'm not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure no one can OWN the copyright to just a sound (everything from a finger snap to a super "unique" distorted wacky guitar sound). So if you recreate the sounds, even if they sound practically identical to the sound in the sample it would still be your original work.

[jamestillman]

I see videos like this all the time driving up fear. Nothing against OP/Channel. Melodies yes you will get copyright strike, its a MELODY! It IS the song! Drum samples that originally came from drum machines can't really be used for copyright strikes. So one shots are extremely safe but If you get a drum loop and are not at least chopping it up, changing the tempo/pitch, then that could get copyright striked by another artist who happened to upload their track first before you

Edit - Also The reply from splice said you fill out one form for EACH SONG not sample. You then make a huge argument about how stressful and time consuming it is to do this for each sample, when their reply said each SONG or VIDEO. I am no longer a splice fan because of their anti consumer practices but the copyright strike for reusing melodies is definitely going to get a strike but one shots and slicing up drum loops (with no melodies just percussion) is very safe.

[DSPsWifesBF]

If you use a sample at least change it up and make it your own.

[MadazzaMusik]

I monetize all my tracks with splice samples you just have to generate the lisences for the sounds in the track and submit the lisences when you monetise. i create a pdf with all the lisences and attach it.I use soundcloud and never had a problem

[Ranakade]

R.i.p then to all splice points I spent lol

[jacapopol]

How were you using the sounds? Did you change the key, tempo and chop the samples? if you do that you will get no problems. As for youtube monetization, you cannot use melody's, chord or vocals as is on content ID because they are non exclusive samples, meaning other people are also using them. But if you use one shots, or generate new sounds in sampler from splice sounds and add your own vocals, you can apply for content ID because your music is now exclusive as all the sounds and melodies are made by you, no loops.

[WestCoastCartelMusic]

This is crazy does anyone know if arcade by output has the same issues?

[BIONDIEST]

so im confused now.. i just got a 3 month trail for splice with my focusrite. I have to generate a certificate and keep everything organized just on the off chance that i make a song good enough that people actually want to listen to it?