Summary: Don’t use Epidemic Sound if you want your content shared as widely as possible, otherwise chances are they will annoy content users with copyright claims – even if you paid them already.

We recently published a video about climate emergency, the climate crisis. After the video views past the 2,000 mark someone affiliated with Epidemic Sound manually filed a copyright claim for six seconds of video content, for sound recordings from ‘The Podium – Josef Falkensköld’.

We disputed the claim, citing fair-use, the particular segment is part of a 6 seconds clip from a  We Don’t Have Time trailer showing Friday’s for Future climate activists demonstrating in the streets.

Epidemic Sound manually made a copyright claim on Climate Emergency video. The video was free to watch, and not monetized. Yet, after our dispute Olof from Epidemic Sound was quick to reject our dispute, he wrote an email.

Thanks for using our music in your YouTube channel Climate State! However, you need to get a licence or a subscription with us if you want to monetise your videos on YouTube.

Solution: We deleted the video, and uploaded a new version.

What others say about Epidemic Sound

Oscar Höglund, CEO of Epidemic Sound, invited me to a concert, an opportunity to explain him again his own company’s license and terms (2020) https://medium.com/@mr_standalone/oscar-höglund-ceo-of-epidemic-sound-invited-me-to-a-concert-an-opportunity-to-explain-him-again-3cc5d1d965cc

Bonemane: Same thing happened to me. They are freaking claiming the menu music! The scumbags then took my info and premade an account for me on their website without my permission. People need to be aware of this.

Reddit: I posted a video, with music from epidemic sound, I paid for the music, and credited them, yet they still copyrighted me, when I filed a dispute with proof of payment, they ignored it!

MrBeast & PewDiePie: Even my new video just got claimed and we only used epidemic sounds.’

Climate State can recommend for Sound & Music

• EPIC STOCK MEDIA http://epicstockmedia.com
• BOOM Library https://www.boomlibrary.com
• SOUND MORPH https://www.soundmorph.com
• Vlog No Copyright Music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEickjZj99-JJIU8_IJ7J-Q