How can YT channels breakdown movies and trailers with showing the actual footage, but they have to mute the music audio a lot of the time?

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I see this with a lot of movie reaction/breakdown channels where there seems to be no issues showing anything video related, but they always comment about needing to mute the music in fear of strikes.

On the other hand, I see music reaction channels (with millions of subs) just playing and reacting to the audio like it’s no big deal.

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The music you hear in a movie doesn’t belong to the people who made the movie, it belongs to the musician. The musician licensed the movie to use the music, but not everybody else on YT. Musicians often have their label seek out and file strikes against others that use their music in ways that don’t benefit the musician. Music reaction, like radio play, benefits the musician, so they treat it differently.

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