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Nothing is specifically set to be under fair use. A song can't be fair use, your usage of it in your own content can be.

Fair use applies to all creative content in the public domain that is protected by copyright. If you make a video around someone else's video and use clips from his video to add to your own video it's fine. Note that music isn't covered by fair use when played in the background of a video.
 
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As mentioned above fair use isn't a blanket cover all for what you do with specific content. It's how you change this and adapt it that determines if you could claim its fair use.
 
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Nothing is specifically set to be under fair use. A song can't be fair use, your usage of it in your own content can be.

Fair use applies to all creative content in the public domain that is protected by copyright. If you make a video around someone else's video and use clips from his video to add to your own video it's fine. Note that music isn't covered by fair use when played in the background of a video.

As mentioned above fair use isn't a blanket cover all for what you do with specific content. It's how you change this and adapt it that determines if you could claim its fair use.

Obviously but im asking for your opinion is audio spectrum's with music protected under fair use? (In your opinion atleast). Let me give you an example. With this example do you think the audio can be used under fair use?

 
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Obviously but im asking for your opinion is audio spectrum's with music protected under fair use? (In your opinion atleast). Let me give you an example. With this example do you think the audio can be used under fair use?

Everything can be used under fair use. It isn't limited to certain producers.
 
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Again, everything that's protected under copyright can be used under Fair Use. This is a right by law and not by a certain video.

Yea not all copyrighted things in a video are protected under fair use.

Do you believe the song used in the video can be used under fair use? Or What?

Answers : Yes , No or IDK.
 
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Yea not all copyrighted things in a video are protected under fair use.

Do you believe the song used in the video can be used under fair use? Or What?

Answers : Yes , No or IDK.
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As I've pointed out multiple times in this post fair use doesn't depend on the content but on how you use it. Fair use can apply to all applicable use cases of any video, song, etc. by law. Whether or not your usage of that content is covered by fair use depends on (plain and simple) the way you use it and whether or not it adds to the rest of your video. You can't answer the question "If I put XY in my video, will it be covered by fair use?" with a yes or a no. It depends on so many factors. May I ask what you're planning to use the song for?
 
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As I've pointed out multiple times in this post fair use doesn't depend on the content but on how you use it. Fair use can apply to all applicable use cases of any video, song, etc. by law. Whether or not your usage of that content is covered by fair use depends on (plain and simple) the way you use it and whether or not it adds to the rest of your video. You can't answer the question "If I put XY in my video, will it be covered by fair use?" with a yes or a no. It depends on so many factors. May I ask what you're planning to use the song for?

Dude are you serious? Look at the video i JUST POSTED TWICE. Do you think the song can be used under fair use in the video i just showed.
 
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Ok I think this has gone far enough.

@kareem it seems that you want a blanket answer to a rather complex question - whether or not the song shown in the videos can be used under fair use. The plain answer is YES but it would depend on how you intend to use it, just adding a audio spectrum to the music might not be a big enough change in order for this to fall under fair use, also its really impossible to tell if an individual song will or will not fall under fair use until you outline the changes or things you are doing to do in order to bring it under 'fair use'.

Remember 'fair use' isn't 100% guaranteed and there are plenty of legal professionsals who could argue for days whether it does or doesn't fall under fair use - just because we might say it falls under fair use doesn't mean that the copyright holder of the song isn't going to challenge this or potentially ask for this to be taken down from YT.
 
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Since I'm probably the only one who knows what is he talking about then, I'm here to help you out..

The audio spectrum is considered fair use even if you are using the similar system like Trap Nation, but when it comes to the song, it depends, if you are a smaller channel, I don't think you will have an allowance to upload the song even with audio specturm, unless you are getting the explicit permission from the song creator.
 
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