user17469: I add my own content to music and post it to you tube.I am not very prolific my last upload being four years ago. Have You Tube relaxed their attitude to music being posted in that time as it seems there are lots of full albums which are on major labels being uploaded? I remember trying to upload a Roxy Music video and being threatened with being banned four years ago

user6273: This has nothing to do with the YouTube Standard Licence, but rather with copyright. The licence selection you get when you upload a video to YouTube is about how others may use your work. However, you are asking about using other people's music in your videos, so it's the other way around. 
Whether you can legally upload other people's music depends on your country's legislation. For example, in Germany you would be infringing copyright in 99.99% of the time as our copyright laws are quite strict. In the USA, your usage may or may not be legal under the Fair Use doctrine. This depends heavily on how and with what intent you are using the music, if you are making money off of it, and several other factors. You need to read up on the legislation that applies to you (depending on where you live) and when in doubt consult a layer.

Have You Tube relaxed their attitude to music being posted in that time as it seems there are lots of full albums which are on major labels being uploaded?

The three most common situations for music on YouTube are the following: 

The uploader is the musician himself or his label. So they have all the rights to distribute the music however they want. 
The usage of the music is protected under Fair Use laws (see above). 
There is no legal basis for the uploader's usage of the music and they JUST DO IT, assuming noone will ever sue them and the worst thing that can happen is that they will get a copyright strike on their channel. For the most part, this assumption is pretty solid, as in theory 99% of the content on the internet infringes someone's copyright but only a minority of those cases ever get followed up on and even less people ever have to face real consequences following a copyright infringement. 


17469: <p>I add my own content to music and post it to you tube.I am not very prolific my last upload being four years ago. Have You Tube relaxed their attitude to music being posted in that time as it seems there are lots of full albums which are on major labels being uploaded? I remember trying to upload a Roxy Music video and being threatened with being banned four years ago</p>
 6273: <p>This has nothing to do with the YouTube Standard Licence, but rather with copyright. The licence selection you get when you upload a video to YouTube is about how others may use your work. However, you are asking about using other people's music in your videos, so it's the other way around. </p>

<p>Whether you can legally upload other people's music depends on your country's legislation. For example, in Germany you would be infringing copyright in 99.99% of the time as our copyright laws are quite strict. In the USA, your usage may or may not be legal under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Fair Use</a> doctrine. This depends heavily on how and with what intent you are using the music, if you are making money off of it, and several other factors. You need to read up on the legislation that applies to you (depending on where you live) and when in doubt consult a layer.</p>

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  <p>Have You Tube relaxed their attitude to music being posted in that time as it seems there are lots of full albums which are on major labels being uploaded?</p>
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<p>The three most common situations for music on YouTube are the following: </p>

<ul>
<li>The uploader is the musician himself or his label. So they have all the rights to distribute the music however they want. </li>
<li>The usage of the music is protected under Fair Use laws (see above). </li>
<li>There is no legal basis for the uploader's usage of the music and they <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">JUST DO IT</a>, assuming noone will ever sue them and the worst thing that can happen is that they will get a copyright strike on their channel. For the most part, this assumption is pretty solid, as in theory 99% of the content on the internet infringes someone's copyright but only a minority of those cases ever get followed up on and even less people ever have to face real consequences following a copyright infringement. </li>
</ul>
