Music copyright checker
Check your own released song or screen a beat or sample-based track before release. This copyright song checker reads the whole song — start to finish — against an industry database of 150M+ commercial recordings. You see every match and exactly where it lands, you decide what to do, and you keep a detailed PDF and a link you can send to anyone who needs to see the result. This is how to copyright check your music the thorough way — add a track below to start.
Whole-song scan · About 50¢ per track · PDF to keep + link to share
Start with your goal
The same whole-track scan supports two different questions. Choose the reason that matches your upload, then review the result in the right context.
See whether commercial recognition identifies your recording and which title, artist, label, ISRC, UPC, and catalog details come back.
Upload my released song →Pre-release screeningI'm checking music before releaseScreen a beat, sample, loop, or finished mix for recognizable commercial-recording material and see exactly where it appears.
Screen my track →See exactly what you get
Every completed screening produces a detailed PDF you can save, plus a link you can send to a label, distributor, sync client, YouTube reviewer, or anyone else who needs to see the same result online. They can open it without creating a Selekt account. The no-match example is complete. The matched example is clearly shortened to two windows so you can understand the format quickly; an actual customer report always includes every window checked.
Open full reportSee every window that was checked, the exact file that was scanned, total coverage, scan time, the Scan ID, and the link that opens the same result online.
Open previewSee what matched, where it appears in your upload, confidence, release and label details, and the identifiers you need to investigate, edit, clear, or document the track before release.
What you leave with
After the scan, you get a detailed PDF to save and a link you can send to a label, distributor, client, collaborator, or anyone else who needs to see the result. They can open it without creating an account.
The whole track checked
See whether anything matched and exactly where it appears, from the first second to the last.
A PDF you keep
Save a dated record showing the exact file checked, the result, and every scan window.
A link you can send
Anyone you share it with can open the same result online without needing a Selekt account.
Drop your track here — we scan the whole song
MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, OGG · max 10 min / 200MB · every second gets checked
For artists checking their own catalog
If you are asking “is my song copyrighted?” or “is my music copyrighted?”, there are two different questions hiding inside those phrases. Copyright generally concerns the legal rights in the recording and composition. This scan answers a narrower evidence question: whether a commercial recognition source identifies your uploaded recording and what metadata it returns.
You can upload music to check copyright-related recognition after release and keep the dated Screening Report with your records. A successful match can confirm that the recording is recognizable in the queried catalog; it cannot guarantee that every platform has indexed it or that nobody else can use it.
Review title, artist, album, label, ISRC, UPC, release data, confidence, and platform references when available.
A no-match result does not mean the song lacks copyright, registration, ownership, or recognition everywhere else.
The result does not establish ownership, chain of title, YouTube Content ID status, or permission for someone else to use the music.
Start with your question
Copyright screening, recording identification, and rights research overlap, but they are not the same promise. Choose the page that matches what you are trying to learn; each one runs this same complete scan and explains the returned evidence in the right context.
Find recognizable commercial-recording material and see where it appears in your upload.
Recording identifiersISRC Lookup by AudioIdentify a recording and see its ISRC, UPC, label, release, and catalog references when returned.
Rights researchWho Owns a Song?Collect the recording identity and metadata you need to begin verifying the current rights.
Video soundtracksYouTube Copyright CheckerScreen music before editing or uploading a video and inspect exact recognized windows.
Here’s what most copyright checkers won’t tell you: acoustic fingerprinting identifies one short window of audio at a time — roughly a ten-second slice. Hand a fingerprinting service your whole track and it still picks a single window to match. So a checker that runs one pass only ever looks at one slice of your song — and a sampled hook buried at 2:40 can sail straight through as “clear.”
Our copyright song checker scans your track in back-to-back windows, from the first second to the last, for up to 10 minutes per scan. Every part of that audio is checked, and the result shows you exactly where any match lands; split longer audio into sections. If a checker doesn’t tell you it scans the entire song, it’s worth asking what it’s actually covering.
Some tools hide anything below a high confidence score so the result looks clean. We don’t. You see every match we find — its confidence, the recording it matched, returned label and catalog details, and where in your song it hit — so the call is yours, not a hidden threshold’s. A faint, coincidental overlap and a dead-on sample are very different things, and you deserve to see both and judge for yourself before you release.
Most checkers give you a yes-or-no and forget it the moment you close the tab. Selekt gives you a detailed PDF to save and a link you can send. Anyone you share it with — a distributor, label, sync supervisor, client, or collaborator — can open the same result online without creating an account. Every scan also gets its own ID, like a receipt number, connecting the PDF to the online copy. Behind the scenes, Selekt digitally seals the record so later changes would be obvious. See how the record is protected.
Drop in any audio — a beat, a sample, a loop, or a finished mix (MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, OGG). It’s split into short segments right in your browser.
Every segment is fingerprinted and matched against 150M+ commercial recordings. You see whether — and exactly where — any part of the song matches a known release.
Every scan gives you a detailed PDF to save and a link you can send to a label, distributor, client, collaborator, or anyone else who needs to see the same result online. The temporary segments are deleted right after the scan — what stays is the record, not your audio.
Need the instruments and musical data too? Complete + Copyright Screen stem separation combines up to 16 stems, MIDI, MusicXML, chords, key and BPM with this same whole-track screening workflow in one upload.
Yes. Upload your released recording and Selekt will scan it against ACRCloud’s commercial-recording reference catalog. A recognized match may return the recording title, artist, label, ISRC, UPC, release information, and catalog links. Recognition is useful evidence that the recording can be identified, but it does not prove copyright registration, ownership, or enrollment in YouTube Content ID.
Add your track to the copyright song checker above — a beat, a sample, a loop, or a finished mix. ACRCloud provides the music recognition against its 150M+ recording reference catalog. Selekt checks the whole song in back-to-back windows and returns a per-segment result showing whether — and exactly where — any part matches a known commercial recording.
Music recognition is provided by ACRCloud, whose reference catalog contains 150M+ recordings. Selekt adds whole-song traversal, timeline mapping, result enrichment, and an Ed25519-signed Screening Report with a public verification link, so you can document what was checked and when.
The whole song, up to 10 minutes per scan. Acoustic fingerprinting matches one short ~10-second window at a time, so a single-pass checker only ever looks at one slice of your track. We scan back-to-back windows from the first second to the last. Split longer audio into sections so a sample buried deep in the file is checked too, not just the intro.
You get the result, a detailed PDF you can keep, and a link you can send to anyone who needs to see it. The link opens the same result online — including which file was checked, when the scan ran, every window that was reviewed, and what was found — without requiring a Selekt account. Behind the scenes, Selekt digitally seals the record so later changes would be obvious.
They can. A match means the audio fingerprints against a commercial recording — it is not, by itself, a verdict of infringement. That’s exactly why we show you every match and where it lands, so you can judge it, and why we keep a signed record: if a cleared or royalty-free sample gets flagged downstream, you have documentation of what you checked and when.
No. A copyright check is screening evidence — it documents that you fingerprinted your song against a large commercial database and what it found, on a specific date. It is highly accurate but not infallible, and it is not a legal clearance opinion or a guarantee. You remain responsible for confirming rights before commercial release.
Your track is split into short segments in your browser and uploaded only to run the scan; those segments are deleted right after fingerprinting. What we keep is the signed record of the result and its hashes — not a copy of your song — and your music is never published or added to any catalog.
A complete whole-song screening costs 0.5 credits — about 50 cents per track. The free trial includes enough credits to screen multiple tracks, and every signed PDF report you generate is yours to keep.
Flagged anyway? Read why royalty-free samples still trigger Content ID claims and how documented sourcing speeds up the dispute.
Scan your whole song, see every match, keep the PDF, and send the result to anyone who needs it.
