Can you put music from your CDs onto YouTube legally?

No. Unless you are the copyright holder (you wrote, recorded, and released the music) it is a breach of copyright law to rip music from CDs and upload it to Youtube. This page may be out of date. Save your draft before refreshing this page. read more

To legally download music from YouTube, you must either receive permission from the recording artist or the song must be in the public domain: the rights must have expired or the artist has put the song in the public domain. read more

No, it's not true that you can legally use the first 30 seconds of any song in your YouTube video without getting in trouble. If you want to use copyrighted music, video games, and movies legally in your YouTube videos, there's only one way to do it. read more