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@KontraVersus You can always try to look at the licensing of the song if they present such information.
https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/ Has some knowledge it seems, but I have no idea how it works exactly so I can't really help in understanding any of the specific licenses.
https://freesound.org/ This website is cool as it has songs you can use, although some have instructions on how to use them, so you have to look out for that.
@KontraVersus In a nutshell: 'Fair use' has to be _really_ good in order for it to hold up in court.
As in "I worked 9 months on this and it has 24 hand-drawn frames per second and backgrounds".
Otherwise you'll just pour endless hours into syncing up an animation to a song just so 5-ish people can be entertained while earning another whistle point.
I have some _really_ cool "lost media" animations on my harddrive where I thought "Well, I hope they have other places where they upload this as well or they just wasted 2 to 80+ hours of their life. Just because they did not invest 5 minutes reading the rules..."
There might be a cover version that's far enough removed from the song to be usable...
Or you hire a legally savvy music producer on NG to make "a cover that doesn't break copyright". If you've made friends with audio Portal artists, one of them might give you discount or trade with you for cover art.
oh man, I did read in regards to games here on newgrounds that you can't have copyrighted audio in a project, and yeah I was wondering if that also includes movies
And I mean youtube also doesn't allow it, I suppose Vivziepop's "die young" animated video is a good example of how it is never allowed but has to get serious to be removed lol (basically she animated something to Kesha's music and the video stayed on youtube for years until she became mor well known and stuff)
On one hand I get it because people like to bite off entire arms when you give them a finger but well, coming back to Vivziepop she managed to get Kesha herself to be in her show so it's a shame I can't animate my OCs to edgy sad music maybe Justin Bieber would come and play a song in my game thanks to that it's a real shame
I hope I don't sound incoherent I haven't slept today lumfao
@KontraVersus I 'was' 'wondering' 'if it was you or me'... My brain is getting 'cooked to perfection' right now. ;3
But I think I got what you wanted to say.
As Cushee-Foofee already pointed out so helpfully: There is a lot of royalty-free music available - not just on Newgrounds.
Alternatively, you could win the lottery, pay for a "license" (or "mechanical license"(?)) and keep paying for it yearly for as long as you want the video to be up. But that's not exactly the typical Newgrounds-crowd could afford - which is why nobody brings it up when these things are discussed.
It is 'legally possible' - it's just expensive.
Cushee-Foofee
Just because you get away with doing something on Youtube doesn't mean it's legal, just that no one wants to bother going through the legal process if it's not something too big or serious.
KontraVersus
I dunno how that works, hence the question. Thought that it might come under fair use if it's just an artistic non commercial project