cakewalk acceptable use documentation for monetized youtube

A policy that would require permission to use creativity software to create content would pretty much defeat the intended purpose of marketing the creative software. Do you have to have Baldwin's permission to record and release a piano solo using one of their instruments? Or Microsoft for using MS Word to write a novel? The permission is implicit in the fact that the seller of the software offers it for sale for this purpose. Unless the written license specifically forbids the use for your own work, I would expect that to be an implicit license.
 
Loops or samples that are sold as a library without restriction should not be a problem. Most such libraries will prohibit simply copying the samples and selling them as samples. But in order to be a useful product they could not restrict your ability to use the samples as intended to make your own music. Where you can get into trouble would be in incorporating copyrighted work that is not intended for use in your own product. 
 
If you were to use a pirated sample library without paying the license fee, that would raise an interesting question. Since there would be no implicit license, the owner could reasonably claim that every copy of the sample used in your work was a copyright infringement. Another good reason to pay for the software you intend to use for publication. But using a pirated version of MS Word, although it would subject you to claims of infringement for your copy of the software itself, theft etc., would not make each copy of your novel an infringement of Microsoft's copyright, since all of the copyrightable material in the novel is your work. Publication using Microsoft's fonts might be a problem however.
 
Unlike commercial publishers of samples etc., some of the free sounds available on the internet might have much murkier licenses. A Creative Commons license requiring attribution, for example says you must acknowledge the licencor if you use the work. That might be pretty burdensome if you have to somehow list dozens of authors on a CD jacket. And one that allows free distribution but no derivative works would probably not allow you to include a sample in your original work. 

I don't know about utube, but if you bought Sonar and registered then it is in the name you used to register it. If you look in Sonar under the File Menu and "Info" any song you do is copyrighted by Sonar with your registered name in the info of the song file.
 
Same way with *.mp3 and ID info you put in as "copyrighted" by you and all the info pertaining to what kind of music it is, and the all of that.
 
The only thing you might add is the day, month, and not just the year as shown what you can do with Sonar in the Info menu item. It is saved along with your music file each time but the year you bought Sonar is the date it gives every time, so change it to the year you are doing the song in and add the rest of the info that you need I suppose.
 
I suppose the same thing in any video editing software, the name you registered the program in is what is recorded, and all of that. How you tell utube though may be a different subject, but then there is no permission that I know of needed because all the software programs are registered unless you did not register those programs in the first place but should have.
 
There is a link here at Sonar where you can look up your Serial Number to the software. I have looked up mine because without it, you can not install Sonar anyway, so look at the Cakewalk site and perhaps copy that URL to give to utube. The other programs (*.mp3 software or movie editing) may also have a page where you are listed with your serial number of the program you bought or are registered at the company's website such as Sonar shows when you look it up.
 
http://www.cakewalk.com/Support/Knowledge-Base/2007013115/I-lost-my-serial-number-or-registration-code
 
Of course I would ask someone else first before I sent anything to utube or anywhere else as to if the info is confidential and do they have a statement that states that and all of that stuff needed for your own protection.
 
Identity Theft I think they call it nowadays, but  I am not sure what anyone would do with software programs, only money stuff hacked I suppose.
 
You may have to do some more searching on the Internet to find out a satisfactory answer.
(or ask a lawyer perhaps or an on-line service dealing in such matters).
 
You can always find your serial number in the program you are using by looking at the menu item for that - usually About and or System Info - even in Windows OS there is the version number of the program and the registered person listed for any of Microsoft programs.
 
Make an image from the screen and put the image up in a PhotoBucket account perhaps and mark it Private use only so it is not Public and no one else can view it.
 
With Sonar it is in the Help Menu item of the program - version of the software and your registered name when you installed it.
 
 
 
 

The EULA is at the end of the User Guide pdf. The User Guide pdf is on this page http://www.cakewalk.com/S...and-Quick-Start-Guides

I expect that YouTube has a gazillion submissions using Sonar as the audio editor, and that if you just say you used Sonar they will not go any further to evaluate this issue. If they have any questions, they will send you a followup.
 
FYI the relevant language for Sonar X3 is:
"3.2 The Licensee may modify the instrument content. LICENSEE MAY USE THE INSTRUMENT CONTENT FOR
COMMERCIAL PURPOSES WITHIN MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS."
 
There may be other considerations that I discussed here:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3046532