Possible to monetize song mashups?

Post date: 2020-07-02 07:39:18

I am interested in creating "mashups" of popular songs that highlight similarities between them. Similar to this (Katy Perry's California Gurls vs Ke$ha's Tik Tok). Is it possible to monetize this on Youtube or similar, given that I'd be working with popular, copyrighted songs?

I have both the ear and the technical knowledge to do this. It's interesting to me as a project because of the lawsuits that trickle up claiming popsong X copied popsong Y; I think this type of "copying" is fundamental to how pop music is created and shouldn't be the subject of litigation. I'd like to create a Youtube channel to help illustrate this. I think my works would fall under fair use given my project goals; however I don't have the energy or interest to fight an uphill battle against algorithmic copyright detection, especially if I can't monetize it.

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