How do I know if my YouTube video is copyright-free?

Question

YouTube

Good day.
There was an idea to create a news channel on YouTube, which will be dedicated to musical directions and everything connected with it. I have an idea, I know what should be there and how to arrange it all.
But then I have a question about copyright.
Let's say in the intro I will have an excerpt from one group to play. In the middle there will be an excerpt from the concert or I will express my opinion about the album and insert an excerpt from the song from the album. At the end, something else will play in the background, etc.
Let me explain that I will not show full-length clips or the entire album, only some part.
1. Will it be copyright infringement?
2. Is it possible to find out somewhere whether this composition is protected or not?
3. How can I get around this or what materials can I use for my own purposes?
PS In the future I will monetize the channel.
Please tell me who knows.

Answer 1

There are restrictions on use - but you can try to get around this restriction.
1. First, edit a test video as you imagine it - and upload it to Youtube, but don't publish it. If there are complaints about your video - Youtube will tell you about it within the first few minutes. Sometimes the truth is that complaints are received with a delay of a day, or even a week (not often, for one out of 100 videos). If there are complaints - delete, remount, reboot.
2. If you limit the duration of a fragment (for example, to a fragment of 10-15 seconds long), then there are usually no complaints, except in cases with VERY greedy copyright holders.
3. There are other ways to "mask" copyrighted content. For example, if you overlay the intro music of your channel on top of a fragment, this of course creates some kind of cacophony, but claims also stop coming. You can tear a fragment into pieces, sometimes it also helps to disguise ...
4. Well, or a universal way, it came up to me to disguise the music from the radio playing in more than 200 commercials, and even when playing entire compositions - just reducing the volume of the radio itself to barely discernible level .. More precisely, not just, there must be other ambient sounds in the video, in my case, background noise. But this method is unlikely to suit you =)
ps all of the above applies even to my own YouTube affiliate program, in fact, I'm sitting on it ....

Answer 2

Have you received permission to use third-party materials? Not? Then you have every chance to get a hand.

Answer 3

What kind of partner are you using? Native YouTube's affiliate program is very strict, requiring that almost all the data in the videos be your own property. Terms of cooperation for other affiliate programs may be different. I advise you to use resources from Creative Commons.