Content ID
This section only pertains to apps that sync clips to videos that are uploaded from the user's device. Before going live with Feed Clips in your app, we'll work with you to determine whether or not your app requires Content ID.
To ensure user-generated content (UGC) on your platform contains only Feed-licensed music, we require all Feed Clips customers that allow users to upload video content to use a music identification service (aka Content ID). Content ID checks to make sure that no unlicensed music is playing in the background audio of a user's source video (ex: a cooking video where you can hear another song playing from the other room). If we detect music playing in the background of the source video, and we don't have a license in place for that music, our API will instruct the customer that we can't proceed to sync music clips until that background audio is gone.
How Content ID Works
First, you need to create an ACR Cloud account and install either the client or server side SDK for audio fingerprint generation. For a quick comprehensive guide to setting up Content ID in your app, see: Set Up Content ID.
When a user uploads a video, an audio fingerprint file is generated by the ACR Cloud SDK. This fingerprint is sent to the Feed Clips API via the Identify Audio from Fingerprint endpoint. The API checks the fingerprint against a database of copyrighted music and returns whether the source audio is clear to proceed.
If the source audio contains recognizable copyrighted music, the API checks whether Feed Clips holds a license for that music. If rights are confirmed, the user may continue adding a clip. If there is no recognized match, the audio is also cleared to proceed.
If the API detects copyrighted music in the source video's background audio and Feed Clips does not hold the rights to that music, the user cannot proceed with adding a music clip until the copyrighted material is removed. We recommend asking the user to record the video without the background audio, or to remove the background audio from the video file and re-upload.