Envato music copyright claim on YouTube

Two ways to clear a claim

Claim Clear. Envato lets you "safelist up to 3 YouTube channels to automatically clear eligible claims on future videos". You can also clear "up to 30 eligible individual videos per month". Clearance is usually done within minutes, though Envato notes that some claim partners such as HAAWK can take up to 24 hours. It only works on tracks marked "Claim Clear ready".

Licence certificate. For any other track, Envato says you can "dispute the claim directly through YouTube Studio, using your license certificate." Paste the certificate details into the dispute. Envato warns that this route "can take up to 30 days", which is the time YouTube gives a claimant to respond.

The catch

Envato licenses each download for one project. "If you want to use the same Item for separate projects, you will need to create a new license for each end-use."

For a Shorts creator, each video is a project. Using one track across a series means creating a licence for each video, and you need an active subscription to create one.

Envato's rule for Shorts

Envato's claims page repeats YouTube's rule that a Short longer than one minute with a Content ID claim is blocked globally. It also says that turning off audio remixing on the Short "is a requirement of the Envato License". Without that setting, other people could reuse the track from your Short without a licence.

After you cancel

"Completed end products retain their license." What ends is your right to start anything new. Envato says "You cannot use downloaded items to create new end products after your subscription ends, even if you downloaded the item before cancellation." A video you had not finished before cancelling loses its licence too.