Helping creators protect their content

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From the YouTube Creator Blog:

We know how frustrating it is when your content is uploaded to other channels without your permission and how time consuming it can be to manually search for these re-uploads. We currently provide a number of ways for copyright owners to protect their work, but we’ve heard from creators that we should do more and we agree.

Today we are excited to announce the new Copyright Match tool, which is designed to find re-uploads of your content on other channels. Here’s how it works: after you upload a video, YouTube will scan other videos uploaded to YouTube to see if any of them are the same or very similar. When there is a match, it will appear in the “matches” tab in the tool and you can decide what to do next.

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Here’s what you need to know:

  • It’s important that you’re the first person to upload your video to YouTube. The time of upload is how we determine who should be shown matches.
  • This tool is intended to find full re-uploads. If you find a clip of your content that you’d like removed, you can always report it via the copyright webform.
  • Once the tool has found a match, you can choose either to do nothing, to get in touch with the other creator, or request that YouTube remove the video. When you request removal you can do so with or without a 7-day delay to allow the uploader to correct the issue themselves. Takedown requests will be reviewed to make sure they comply with YouTube’s copyright policies.

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2 thoughts on “Helping creators protect their content”

  1. I can’t see this being misused to get someone’s content removed, nope it looks perfect. (me off to pop corn I’ll be needing in 5 … 4 … 3 …)

  2. That’s a pretty video you have there. Too bad you posted it to one of our competitors, like Vimeo. Now, the guy who scraped it there and posted it here owns it, as far as we’re concerned. Next time, maybe you’ll think twice about using the competitors hosting service over ours.

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