Where the free preview loops come from, what music is safe to publish in your own video, and what copyright actually means on YouTube and TikTok.
Two different questions hide inside “can I use this music?” — what is that music playing on the template pages, and what music can I put in my own video? The first has a one-paragraph answer. The second is where channels get protected, so it deserves the plain-language version: no scare tactics, and no myths.
The honest disclaimer
This article is general information about how music rights and platform enforcement work — it is not legal advice. When real money, labels or contracts are involved, talk to a music attorney.
Every template page plays music the moment it loads — one of three short loops at 124, 92 and 140 BPM. All three were composed and synthesized in-house at Novus, and Novus owns them outright. They exist for exactly one job: letting you judge how a scene reacts to real audio, at three different tempos, without uploading anything first.
They are preview music, full stop. When you export a video, the file contains only the track you uploaded — the preview loops never end up in your export. There is no leftover Novus audio to trigger a claim, and nothing you need to license from us. The rights question in your finished video is entirely about your own track.
For most Novus users this resolves instantly: you are visualizing music you made, so you hold the rights and you are done. The same goes for commissioned beats or mixes where your agreement covers releasing the result online.
It only gets involved when the music is someone else's. A song carries two separate rights — the composition (the written song) and the master (the specific recording) — and publishing a video with a track baked in generally needs permission on both sides. That is why “I found it on SoundCloud” and “my friend sent me the MP3” are not answers: possessing a file has never included permission to republish it.
YouTube scans uploads with Content ID, an automated audio-matching system that rights holders feed with their catalogs. When it matches your audio, the usual outcome is a claim, not a punishment: the video typically stays up, ad revenue routes to the rights holder, and some tracks trigger regional blocks or muting instead. A claim by itself does not damage your channel.
Strikes are the more serious tier, and they come from actual takedown requests rather than automatic matches. Most creators who use unlicensed music never see one — what they see is every upload quietly monetizing someone else's catalog. If you are building a music channel, that alone is the argument for keeping uploads clean: the entire point is for your work to pay you.
Short-form apps license huge music libraries — for sounds you add inside the app. That licensing does not cover audio baked into a file you upload, and a visualizer is by definition audio baked into a file. Post a visualizer of an unlicensed commercial track and the platform can mute, restrict or remove it on match, just as YouTube would. Business and commercial accounts get an even narrower approved library. The rule of thumb is the same everywhere: if the music is inside your video file, the license has to be yours.
Novus keeps its side simple by design: previews demo with music we own, your export carries only your audio, and the file it writes is free, watermark-free and entirely yours. Publish music you have the rights to and there is nothing else to manage. Pick a scene in the gallery, bring your own track into the editor — and if a rights question ever feels bigger than a blog post, it probably is, and an hour with a professional is cheap insurance. More quick answers live in the FAQ.
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