NEW! Easier Copyright Protection for Creators

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[smashthings]

The copyright system is a joke on YouTube. I have been producing content for over 12 years. So why is it, that a BRAND NEW user can reupload heaps of my content in obviously very poor quality and cropped, and then file a copyright claim against the original! For which I GET IN TROUBLE! My video gets removed, and I have to file a counter-claim and wait upwards of 2 weeks just for my video to return after it's discovered that yes, it's CLEARLY my video!

Even worse, I have had individual channels re-upload heaps of my videos, and even though I filed up to EIGHT separate copyright claims on a single channel to have them all removed, these channels were not terminated and could continue to upload videos! Only much later do they finally get terminated. This has happened to me multiple times! Channels that upload nothing but infringing content from various creators and accumulate dozens of claims, yet they're never terminated - despite the fact YouTube's terms clearly state 3 strikes is the limit (unless you have over a million subscribers).

Then there's people abusing the copyright system. Last year, I had some extremely angry and not-stable people make new YouTube accounts to reupload my content, and then file fake copyright claims in an effort to terminate my channel. I got 2 strikes and was forbidden from uploading until it was resolved. 2 strikes from MY OWN CONTENT being used against me!

How come if I get 2 false copyright strikes, I am BANNED from uploading content (and an immediate termination if it were 3), despite the fact I have been a content producer for well over a decade on your platform. Yet if a brand new 2021 account gets 20+ copyright takedowns, they can continue uploading more infringing content without any sort of repercussions? The fact that it is that easy to terminate large, 10+ year channels by simply reuploading their content shows how broken this copyright system is.

Some of those false copyright notices I got from those people didn't even specify what the "infringing" content was, or what the actual copyright problem was! They literally filed a copyright claim with zero information and I got punished for it - great system!

Is it really that much of a challenge for the copyright tool to see MY video was upload first? Or to clearly see the reuploaded video is in much lower quality/cropped? Or how about not immediately siding with this brand new account with no videos trying to file a copyright claim? I also put hard-coded watermarks on ALL of my videos. So many of the reuploads aren't cropped and clearly have the watermark present! Yet your "creator support" (just robots) takes 2+ weeks to realise this?

It's beyond ridiculous and shows how little YouTube cares for smaller channels. I doubt the copyright system will ever get "fixed" or become fair. if you're not a giant media propaganda empire, a celebrity or have over a million subscribers, YouTube will simply not care about you. I've been putting watermarks on my videos since 2010, and to this day I still have to because the copyright system is a joke.

[StruggleDaPreacher]

what you guys need to look into is to stop giving strikes without a notification. There should be some kind of notification first and if the person doesn't comply with it, then go ahead and give the channel a strike. Some situations are just ridiculous.
One of my videos had been on the channel for more than a year, I couldn't monetize it but the copyright holder allowed me to use it after I had appealed then all of a sudden they decided to give me a strike. And i couldn't do anything about it neither save the comments nor restore it

[mattwo]

2:44 Oh hilarious.

Because you totally don't have special agreements with abusive bad faith copyright holders to ignore fair use. Which is illegal by the way.

[AlisonRussellsCrochetChannel]

Would it not be better to have a check box as we upload the video to say no one can copy it, and if they do YouTube should remove it or a warning flash up to the person as to say you are about to upload a copyright video?? similar to the opt out for shorts. I know you can prevent link sharing but a copy warning might be more useful.

[bearsandbutters]

We are curious to see how this is going to affect people who use copyright free music, and the OG artist has authorized their music to be used with attribution. We have had heard from 2 artists in the past 2 months say that they have had other creators stealing their music and are claiming the music as theirs.. and filing copyright claims on everyone else who is using this music, forcing the ARTIST to dispute with YouTube. What is going to happen if someone exploits this, claims a piece of music against an artist???

[forgottenuploads]

When people can copyright claim silence (as in no sound at all), your system is broken.

[DiskiDomain]

I feel the entire model should be reevaluated. If someone uses someone else's content, the original creator should always be making a slice of the profit. It could be a fixed percentage that the creator and new creator agree on. It's absolutely pathetic that we are still plagued with channels who claim "fair use" and they literally get 10x or 100x more views than the original creator. The effort put in for a voice over or just blankly staring or reacting to a video is utter nonsense and any Bob can do it. The entire model should change that allows ORIGINAL creators to benefit more. This has been an ongoing issue forever and I don't see how it's that difficult to implement.

[Kazarinfilms]

I hope once Youtube will start to struggle with fraudulent capture of public domain videos

[YolandaCalvo]

What about false copyright claims? I have an Epidemicsound account and uploading a video someone from Japan claimed 40 sec of a 8 h video, saying that the ocean waves sound I have used it’s theirs, when there is not. I have impugned the claim, Epidemicsound have reached the claimant. No answer after one week. This is the second time it happened to me, and it happens a lot, even with big youtubers. We feel abandoned and unprotected from these pirates 🏴‍☠️. It’s absolutely unfair.

[LFPGaming]

content creators should be given access to the content ID system, for the content which they possess worldwide exclusive rights. it's unfair that only massive corporations and copyright trolls have access to the content id system.

[philippages]

First, I absolutely *LOVE* the fact that we can protect our content WITHOUT it resulting in a copyright strike on another channel. That was an excellent move on your part. Thank you! I wish this was the standard approach to copyright with all videos on YouTube, ie. allowing original content owners to monetize copies on other channels or have the video removed without copyright strikes. I would love to see YouTube allowing for more "mixing" of content, which I know is already somewhat allowed under "fair use", but it can be very tricky to argue fair use. I understand that YouTube is trying to work within the legal restrictions that governments impose, so I very much appreciate YouTube's approach so far, because I know that YouTube would love to see more content sharing and mixing, at the same time wanting to protect the original content owners from people who would abuse the freedom and make money off of the effort and creativity of others.

[n.aclasheryt]

I cannot wait to see huge misuse of this feature and creating more problems for the creators. Can you please fix your copyright tools before adding more features? I am frustated of people taking a copyright free music and submitting it to youtube as their own music then claiming all the revenue from all the videos using that music legally. And if the original composet of that music is not active then there is no way to do anything about it instead of watching those fraudsters steal all our hard earned money

[ReadyToHarvest]

Here's my case. I like to monitor the videos people have uploaded before I decide. Some people have uploaded them on their channel, and I don't worry, but one day if they get 10K views I may take action. But there are people who have uploaded exact copies of my videos and they DO NOT show in the tool, so I have to keep a separate list to keep tabs on them. Is there a way we can give YouTube a url and manually add it into the copyright tool, after YouTube verifies that it is in fact our copyrighted video?

[Executive_Media]

Why would Youtube Demonetize A channel without proper guidelines of the content creator

[caloss]

The promised global opt out of people sampling our content for shorts function, when can we expect to see it ?

[ActorRathod]

Copyright is the worst thing on youtube.

[lionsground]

This feature sounds good for content creators who provide original content. It is said that bad actors who abuse this feature will be punished. But if we look at how some creators deal with YouTube's flagging system and the response time of YouTube, this combination means that another person who wants to make a video using the same clip is greatly affected or slowed down greatly. When you put such a big responsibility on the creator I think there should be an extra field for the creator to prove that he or she has exclusive copyright ownership on the material as extra verification. I mean, when signing up to a platform we need to go through all kind of verifications why is content verification being skipped.

[ADoseofBuckley]

Oh good, just what the labels needed, even easier ways to ruin the platform for people who are legally using clips under fair use/fair dealing laws.

How about, instead of worrying about this (it's a non-issue, people who re-upload other people's videos always get like 10 views, they're nobody channels, and the tools you had in place worked just fine), how about Google actually works on things like content licensing? You know it's pretty bad when TIK TOK has licensing to allow other users the abilities to use audio clips legally, and practically the biggest tech company in the world doesn't.

[UnwindLetGo]

trying to understand how to get this option, as i write my own music. You said something at 3:17 ''If you go to the webfront, or webphone or something :D :D? What is that?!

[DVDfeverGames]

When will you do something about false copyright claims?