Now you can check Content ID on YouTube before publishing.

The official YouTube blog has announced a new opportunity for video owners to find out in advance without uploading to the service itself - whether the audio track used in the video does not violate someone’s copyright, so the video can be blocked.

Identifying illegally used audio on YouTube is handled by a special Content ID program that scans user-uploaded videos. In the event that the violation was recorded, the rights owner was provided with a further choice of actions:

• Mute video
• Full blocking roller
• Monetization by advertising
• Just tracking the statistics of video views in order to determine further actions.

Now users are invited before downloading the video to make sure that their material does not violate any rights with the help of the YouTube Audio Library. On three tabs are available options for songs that can be found and downloaded for use in your video:

• You can listen to free and immediately download
• There are some restrictions imposed on music with advertising by the copyright holder, which can be viewed after clicking on the song found: for example, the song Take on me from A-HA is prohibited:
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  Whereas for the well-known Gangnam Style phenomenon there are no such rigid restrictions:
  
  
  
  
• Sound effects are also allowed to use without restrictions.
  

About a week ago on Geektimes, the case when YouTube had to remove the sound of a videotape of the conference due to background music received fame.