and I can't find the original license holders. Is it the record label? My video is getting pretty viral and I want to put adsense on it but I don't want to get it banned because of the song. Should I just do it anyways? This is the song: (not my video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d55bIYcrHKQ

you probably shouldn't
but if you do, and they don't want you to...they will only take the ads off.. you won't get banned

pretend you own it.

Doesn't seem like a song that someone would come after you for having on your video, or even notice, at that.

I'd just bank off it while you can. What's there to lose? If your adsense is banned, then you'll lose out on the money, but if you don't put adsense on it, you won't make any money. Of course, assuming that you don't already have adsense on your other videos.

I once made a channel and posted a song that was hyped up and popular with a download link, it reached the top of YouTube search within a few hours and within 6 hours it had around 10,000 views, however it was promptly removed from my channel and I got warned for it. That was for a very main-stream and popular song though.

With yours I think it will be fine, they will not ban your adsense account.

Originally Posted by Brainstorming

Doesn't seem like a song that someone would come after you for having on your video, or even notice, at that.

I'd just bank off it while you can. What's there to lose? If your adsense is banned, then you'll lose out on the money, but if you don't put adsense on it, you won't make any money. Of course, assuming that you don't already have adsense on your other videos.

Yeah, I decided to just put adsense on it and I already made like $40 . Hopefully nothing bad happens

Originally Posted by Zelthcon

I once made a channel and posted a song that was hyped up and popular with a download link, it reached the top of YouTube search within a few hours and within 6 hours it had around 10,000 views, however it was promptly removed from my channel and I got warned for it. That was for a very main-stream and popular song though.

With yours I think it will be fine, they will not ban your adsense account.

Thanks for your input.

This is how to make that song go viral
youtube.com/watch?v=6Zx39v3JUUI