Board Thread:Beginning Singers/@comment-33366415-20171117055154/@comment-917693-20171118010651

lol wikia notified me, when you did your original post xD seems like you can post after all ^^

Anyway, I suggest you look at a few other utaites/youtaites and see how they do it.

You'll see most everyone at least includes the link to the original (pay attention to credit the original video, not some reprint of another channel).

Most also include the composer/lyricist, and some even movie and illustration artists, etc.

Also keep in mind if you use the video of another person (e.g. if you found an awesome fanmade PV that you like better than the original and want to use it) you need to credit them too. (PS. only if they're okay with you using it.) The same goes for using translyrics of another person!

Same goes with anyone who helps you (i.e. people who do your mixing, custom artwork, etc.)

So generally as a rule of thumb, it's best to just credit everyone who has contributed to the video.

About this "Do they mind if english speakers cover their songs?". In general if they allow covers of their songs (generally if they do, you can find off vocals on piapro. Often linked to on the original video) they wouldn't mind english speakers covering their songs, unless they're extreme xenophobes probably...

"Also, when going through various utaites, some of them copypaste a few paragraphs worth of copyright laws[...]". I don't think I ever saw utaite copy paste copyright laws... Youtaite on the other hand... that's because YouTube is sometimes shit, and will take down things believing they're violating some copyright laws. So I believe people copy paste things such as "This cover is not for commercial use/under fair use" or things like "I only own my own voice" so that it's less likely that YouTube accidentally takes down their video. If it works? I don't know...

PS If I sound like I'm rambling (it's late and I'm way past my bedtime), and anything is unclear be sure to ask.