Unoffical Response: "Music in online challenges"

[MayorMonty]

@Riley
Let’s take a look at the definition, of public domain, according to Wikipedia:

Public Domain. The state of belonging or being available to the public as a whole, and therefore not subject to copyright.

When an author has relinquished their copyright of a work, it is Public Domain. Note that, unofficially, the specification most likely includes all Creative Commons licenses, not just ones where the author has entirely relinquished their copyright.

Also, note that the submission date for most (or all) challenges is already past due (due on Jan. 11 2017)

[AidenPyle]

Youtube: What is the public domain?
Works eventually lose their copyright protection and are said to fall into the “public domain,” making them free for everyone to use. It typically takes many years for works to fall into the public domain. The length of a term of copyright protection varies depending on where and when the work was published, whether the work was commissioned as a work for hire, and other factors. Certain works created by US federal government agencies fall into the public domain immediately upon publication. Keep in mind that the rules for public domain differ in other countries.

It is your responsibility to verify that a work is indeed in the public domain before you upload it to YouTube. There is no official list of works in the public domain. However, there are some useful resources online that might help you. Columbia University Libraries and the Copyright Information Center at Cornell University both offer helpful guides to works that may fall in the public domain. Neither YouTube, nor either university, can guarantee that all the works linked to are free from copyright protection.

I found this on youtube’s website.

@MayorMonty

Also, note that the submission date for most (or all) challenges is already past due (due on Jan. 11 2017)

In their post, they said that they would be submitting an online challenge next year.

@@Riley

I intend to take part in Online Challenges next year with my VEX Robotics Competition team…

[MayorMonty]

@Aiden Pyle While works which are older than the current public domain limit of authors life + 80 years (thanks, Disney!) are free to use, OP is more likely to want to use works wherein the author has relinquished their copyright, as opposed to much more ancient, copyright-expired works