What’s the difference between “eligible” sound recordings that I can monetize and “ineligible” sound recordings that I can’t monetize on the TuneCore YouTube Sound Recording Revenue collection service?

Eligible : You can submit specific tracks to YouTube for revenue collection that:

1. Use only your own material for which you have exclusive rights.
2. Use third-party material for which you have exclusive rights.

Ineligible : You can not submit tracks to YouTube for revenue collection that:

1. Contain public domain clips or speeches
2. Contain any ambient sound effects (like nature sounds), production loops (such as GarageBand loops) or samples from audio libraries (like Musicbed and Audiojungle)
3. Contain any third party content that you do not have exclusively licensed (such as samples/beats you do not have exclusively licensed)
4. Are karaoke versions or sound-a-like cover versions
5. Are part of a compilation/various artists’ albums
6. You have previously licensed to a third party, on an exclusive basis
7. Are already monetized on YouTube by another distributor
8. Are video game soundtracks (unless you are the video game publisher)

Important : Violations of these guidelines may lead to permanent blocking of your account from this service.