I have a good voice and want to make audio. Where can I find materials that won’t infringe my rights?

Hello,.

I am the anchor of a well-known audio platform in China, and I also have audio albums on the Toutiao platform. Regarding your questions, I can answer them for you based on my experience so far.

First of all, with the rise of video self-media in recent years, audio self-media has also emerged, but its share and edge have always been lower than that of video self-media. At the same time, the gradual increase in domestic copyright awareness in recent years has also brought certain troubles to audio self-media.

Secondly, there are many well-known audio media platforms across the Internet, so I don’t need to name them here. In fact, all the major platforms are playing around with things. The platform rules and regulations make it clear that the content you want to read must have copyright, otherwise the platform has the right to remove it from the shelves at any time, and even hold you legally responsible.

So are there really no infringing works and anchors?

Wrong, of course there are, and almost all of them are porters.

When you have time, you can carefully browse the contents of all audio media platforms. More than 90% of the contents are copyright-free. It is impossible for the platform to manually review each one one by one. There will be a voice-to-text machine for recognition in the background, but the probability is limited. As long as you make slight changes, it will basically not be recognized.

And the platform often openly lets it go for the sake of its own traffic and user market. For example, there are countless free song resources on major platforms, and all authors who publish these songs have no copyright.

But as the saying goes, no one deliberately reports the matter, and the platform is happy to turn a blind eye.

The next most important thing is how to circumvent the platform’s review mechanism.

In fact, sounds and words are different. If you publish an article and plagiarize and copy other people's classic paragraphs and content, it is easy to be discovered and identified. But sound is abstract and cannot be seen by the eyes. When you convert an article into sound, first, people who are not interested in the content will not click in to listen. Second, some people quit after listening to a few words, which will not have any impact. Third, if you really listen to it from beginning to end, it will be difficult to quickly reflect which chapter of which author you read aloud from which work, and then search for evidence, and then report you.

This is one of the reasons why audio anchors are infringing but few are discovered.

In addition, it is difficult for copyright owners to have the energy to search all the sounds on the entire Internet to identify infringements.

Does that mean you can be unscrupulous?

Of course not.

If you single-mindedly read a famous book or an online novel from cover to cover, word for word, then I can tell you that you will definitely be taken to court.

If you want to read a long story series or someone's work, you must obtain legal authorization.

However, as a self-media anchor, you usually only need to excerpt a certain paragraph at will, and you will not be discovered or discovered, because the impact will be minimal, and no one will embarrass you or report you.

If you just read some beautiful Internet articles, poems, prose and other topics, no one will pay attention to and pursue the copyright of the materials that are flooding all over the Internet. You can also move some original content from Weibo and self-media accounts, but it must be modified and processed appropriately. When you convert text into sound, it's more subtle.

In addition, many audio media have legally copyrighted content. They will purchase the copyright of some articles and works, or content that is not legally controversial, and provide it to everyone on the platform for free. Read aloud.

So when you first join the platform, you can choose this kind of free and non-controversial content to read aloud.

Finally, if you really become a celebrity in the future, have countless fans, and want to broadcast some complete and atmospheric works, then you will already have the capital and conditions to negotiate cooperation and authorization with the copyright owner. Of course, that step is still far away.

I would like to add something else, which can be regarded as a piece of advice: on the Internet, there are countless people with various qualifications, and there are too many who are good at reading, drawing, singing, and writing. But if you want to make money from this and really become a big shot, the hope is extremely slim. So you have to have a correct attitude and just keep it as a hobby. Those successful anchors have a large and professional team behind them, and they want to hype them up.

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