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Answer 13 questions
What UGC platforms are, what rights you need, and what gets releases rejected. Every answer comes with the why, so a wrong guess still teaches the rule.
TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Content ID, Snapchat and Lickd verify rights differently from normal stores. Pass this short quiz once and our team can enable UGC distribution on your account.
To distribute to TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, YouTube Content ID, Snapchat and Lickd, you need to show you know what those platforms allow. Answer all 13 correctly; every question explains its answer, so a wrong guess still teaches the rule.
Select every answer that applies, then check.
Enter the email on your Unchained Music account and the team will verify your identity and enable UGC platforms for your account. Available on Grow, Pro and Partner plans.
Done. Your pass is recorded against that email. The team will verify your account and switch UGC platforms on; if nothing has changed within two working days, message support from that address.
The rules in this quiz are the ones we enforce: they come from the UGC Platform Distribution Policy in our content policy.
The quiz runs in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you pass and choose to submit your account email at the end.
What UGC platforms are, what rights you need, and what gets releases rejected. Every answer comes with the why, so a wrong guess still teaches the rule.
Content ID mistakes hurt other artists as well as you, so the bar is all 13 right. Miss any and you can retake it straight away; the explanations stay on screen.
Pass once and send us the email on your Unchained Music account. The team verifies your identity and enables UGC platforms for your future releases on qualifying plans.
User-generated content platforms like TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, YouTube Content ID, Snapchat, and licensing platforms like Lickd do something normal stores never do: they let millions of other people build videos on top of your audio, and they use automated fingerprinting to decide who gets paid for every one of those uses.
That automation is the whole problem. If you upload audio you do not exclusively own, say a leased beat, an unmodified sample-pack loop or a soundalike cover, the fingerprint system cannot tell your release from everyone else's use of the same material. The result is false copyright claims that land on other creators' videos, blocked monetisation, and in the worst cases your music, or someone else's, taken down.
That is why Unchained Music verifies every artist before switching on UGC distribution: full identity verification, a verifiable artist presence with correct Spotify and Apple Music profile IDs in your Artist Roster, and this quiz, which checks you know the rules the platforms themselves enforce. It is available on Grow, Pro and Partner plans.
The rules themselves are simple once seen from the platform's side: 100% original music you own, or music you hold exclusive commercial rights to, with documentation. Anything non-exclusive, like free-for-profit beats, standard leases and unmodified sample-pack material, cannot be fingerprinted to one owner, so it cannot go to UGC platforms.
A platform where users create, upload and share their own content using your music: TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, YouTube Content ID, Snapchat, and licensing platforms like Lickd. They fingerprint your audio and match it across every video on the platform, which is also why they need stricter rights checks than normal stores.
Because Content ID systems punish mistakes collectively. One wrongly-claimed sample can put false copyright claims on thousands of other creators' videos. The quiz confirms you know what is allowed before your releases enter those systems.
Grow, Pro and Partner. Passing the quiz is one of the requirements; full identity verification and correct Spotify and Apple Music profile IDs in your Artist Roster are the others.
No. Non-exclusive licences mean the same beat sits in other artists' releases too, so fingerprinting cannot attribute it to one owner. UGC platforms need exclusive rights, with documentation.
Submit the email on your Unchained Music account and the team verifies your identity and switches UGC platforms on for your account. You only pass once, and it covers your future releases.
Nothing bad. Retake it as many times as you like. Every question explains its answer, so a failed attempt is really just the study guide.
See when our team will typically review the release you are about to submit.
The full pre-submission audit, covering audio, artwork, metadata and timing in one pass.
Verify your WAV is what the stores expect before you upload it.
Distribution to 150+ platforms including TikTok, Meta and YouTube Content ID, with a human reviewing every release.