What's the deal with YouTube and copyright?
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Multiple ways, I've not uploaded much to youtube this last year but when I did, and it contained copyrighted music, the whole video revenue got claimed by the copyright owner. Since I was uploading for personal reasons, and in general, it didn't bother me one bit, what did though was when I uploaded a video with a Royalty-free track and it still got claimed - the whole system is set up for copyright owners to abuse.
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A friend of mine had a long running battle with YouTube over it's constant taking down of his videos. He was the composer, he was the performer and all the music was his yet Youtube kept on taking his videos down for breaching copyright.
from what i understand there are a number of company's/people out there that basically copyright claim everything that is put up on youtube, it doesn't matter if they own the copyright or not, as they know a % of people won't fight the claim and they get any money the vids make
It is really bad at the moment. Large companies dealing copyright strikes right, left and centre, claiming videos with music in the background, covers of music, people teaching songs, even videos that had artists names in hashtags, etc.
But it also affects videos that use short snippets of TV shows, movies, programmes for illustration, getting copyright strikes from large sources - sometimes under completely false pretences - a friend of mine just regained control over his modern history themed videos after Chinese TV channel claimed the famous CNN footage of a guy stopping tanks on the way to Tiennanmen Square belonged and was copyrighted by them, they took over income and control of his 20 minute videos that used about 15 second snippets of the famous cam video. It took him like six month to battle them down and during that time they made his videos unavailable in various countries and on all mobile platforms. Large corporations and TV stations are really predatory on youtube at the moment.
But it also affects videos that use short snippets of TV shows, movies, programmes for illustration, getting copyright strikes from large sources - sometimes under completely false pretences - a friend of mine just regained control over his modern history themed videos after Chinese TV channel claimed the famous CNN footage of a guy stopping tanks on the way to Tiennanmen Square belonged and was copyrighted by them, they took over income and control of his 20 minute videos that used about 15 second snippets of the famous cam video. It took him like six month to battle them down and during that time they made his videos unavailable in various countries and on all mobile platforms. Large corporations and TV stations are really predatory on youtube at the moment.