Youtube Copyright Question

I commented on another thread with the same question. Basically, I use and buy music from Amazon (they have Sims soundtracks) and haven't had any problems with copyrighted material, so far. I have run into copyrighted content and was alerted on my YouTube admin panel, which I 'acknowledge' that I don't own, and that's it - my video is still viewable and playable in most countries...

Okay good to know. What about making your videos monetized?

You cannot monetise anything you do not own. I would review the YouTube rules on this :)

Okay. Because I seen some other Sims Youtube channels have their videos monetized. Thank you (:

I don't monetize, I turn off the in game music. If I'm doing something the requires music, I either use Youtube's royalty free library, JewelBeat or BenSound.

I have the same problem, I recorded a video of Resident Evil 6 but got the copyright claim. I turned off the music and no copyright claim appeared.

It's said that the game's music triggers it. If the music is disabled, the copyright claim doesn't appear.

According to EA, you can monetize the videos as long as the gameplay is from a game that they publicly released (eg No pre-release review videos)

Well then again, I contacted an EA Advisor and they said you can upload the videos with music from the game (3rd-party music is a separate issue) and be alright. But then I asked if I could monetize the videos and they said based on the information they have in their help center, you can't monetize the videos. EA's website states that they are okay with commercialized videos (as of October 1, 2015), so it could just be that EA Advisors don't have all of the information. I have monetized my Sims 4 videos and so far there haven't been any problems, although most of the in-game music is cut out in my videos. I know there are a bunch of youtubers who post the Sims 4 soundtrack and monetize the videos (which I think is worse than having a little bit of the music in your videos), but they seem to be alright. Pewdiepie has in-game music in his Sims videos, and he's doing just fine. I think the worst case scenario is that youtube will flag it, and tell you that that specific video cannot be monetized, but EA's website and the EA advisors agree on one thing, and that is you CAN post gameplay videos on youtube without monetization.

Can you monetize a short movie that you make with the Sims 3 or Sims 4 if you use your own voice overs and background music???

I think best bet for wanting monetized vids is turn off all music that isn't yours, use your own music or music from the free library or other free music sites. Otherwise you can use the music but you wont get profit