In case you found that somebody has taken your
YouTube video and then reuploaded to their YouTube
channel. YouTube does a good job these days of giving us a
notification within our YouTube channel that somebody
has done that. When we click on that notification, it takes
us to your Creators studio wherein we can do a removal
request. And in the recent past, YouTube has made it even
more simpler to fill that removal request form so that
you don't take much time in filling these infringing
videos to be taken down and send a notice to the person
who has taken your video and re-uploaded to their channel.
So let's see how to fill that form right now. So these days,
we can see a notification within our YouTube channel,
which says, new copyrighted matches found review videos
that may be using your content. Clicking on that will
take us to our YouTube studio creator's studio - directly to
the copyright section. And I have already removed my video,
so that's why it is not showing up under the Matches
section. But for you, whenever you start, uh, coming to your
channel copyrights section, you will see the infringing
videos showing up under the Matches tab. Since mine is
already removed, I'm going to show you how it looks when I
got that notification and will also go over how to fill that
form, which YouTube has given us. All right. So this was the
video and I had taken that down. It has been now
resolved. So in your case, this will show up under the
matches column. In my case, since it is already removed, I
won't be able to open this particular form. But then I
can at least show you how the form looks like so that you
can do that on your own. So this is how the form looks
like on the first step. You'll find both the videos, the one
that you own, that you have created and the video, which
somebody else has taken up and then uploaded to their
channel. You would also see a link to those two videos,
yours and then the others' that they have copied and also
sometimes their YouTube channel link - their channel
name as well. So in this case, it is showing zero because I
have taken a new form for this demo purpose. However, in your
case, it'll show you the videos that you have requested
for removal under this first step and this section is the
copyright owner section, and it's very important for you to
fill all the required details. The affected party is myself,
in case you are a company or an organization, or if it is
for your client, you can choose other option here. But
mostly if it is you the creator, then choose myself,
which will be the default option and then the name of
the copyright owner. I am going to fill in my full name
here and then the phone, my own phone number here, which
is required field, we will have to fill it over here and
then the primary email, the email that you have logged
into. So that goes in here for the communication purpose. In
case you have a secondary email, you can put that in
here. If it is like, for example, if it's a client,
maybe you can do that as well.
Next relationship to copyrighted content. So in
this case, I usually type in content creator or I am the
creator or something like that so that you can let YouTube
know that what is the relationship to the cooperated
content. So I usually fill in this as Content Creator or
just say Creator. Choose your country and then your address.
And then the third field - it's about how do you want
this removal timing to happen for the targeted video. I
usually go for the standard removal, which is the request
removal now because sending a seven day notice - YouTube
gives the uploader seven days to remove the video and avoid
a copyright strike. If they don't, the video is removed
after seven days. So this is based on how you want to do
it, but it's totally your choice. I usually go for a
request removal now because I do not want to give any time,
because if you look at it this way, the person who took your
video and re-uploaded to their channel - what is the actual
motive there? Why does that person have to steal or take
somebody else's creation and then reupload it to their
channel? I don't see anything happening here in good faith
because since your video is already there on YouTube,
people can search for and then watch it and you, the creator,
gets the likes and their watch
time and all that stuff. But why does that other person
should do that? Doesn't make any sense, right? So that's
why I always go for a standard request removal, which mostly
can lead to a copyright strike. But then that's the
risk that the person has taken, right? So I would go
for request removal now, which is a standard request so that
the request can happen within hours rather than giving them
a seven day notice. So I would choose standard option here.
And here is the new option that YouTube has come up with.
Check this box. I would suggest to check this box,
which says that it will prevent further copies being
appearing on YouTube going forward. And this they do, I
think maybe with some content matching algorithm that they
have. And if that takedown request is valid, which in
most cases will be YouTube will make its best effort to
prevent new uploads from appearing on the platform. So
I would highly recommend checking this box so that the
same video doesn't get into copyright issues so that you
need not spend time on doing this stuff and then check this
box because you certify YouTube that you have this
worldwide exclusive rights to the content which you have
created. So it's a good option. Make sure you check
these as well. And finally, the legal agreements, I would
suggest just check all these options. These are all legally
required fields, and it just says that you have a good
faith belief that the use of the material in the manner
complained is not authorized by the copyright owner, its
agent or the law, and the information in this
notification is accurate. And I understand abuse of this
tool like so you understand the legal legalese text here.
Make sure you check all these boxes and then write in your
name. Your signature should contain your full legal name,
which is usually your first name and then the last name or
your surname, as stated on your government issued I.D.
They also say that YouTube cannot process the request
without this info, so make sure you put in your name here
as per your government I.D.. Alright? So that's it. Once
you're done with all this, go ahead and then submit your
request removal form. Once this is done, you will get a
notification from YouTube. Copyright Complaint Submission
stating that thank you for submitting the takedown
request and your request will be reviewed to make sure it's
valid. And once it is complete, you'll get another
email which says that thank you very much for your
notification and the content has been removed. You can see
that the timing differences between here, the first and
the second email, the time it took between the copyright
infringement submission and then the takedown happening.
It's just a few hours on the same day at around midnight
12:42, I submitted it and then by 1:21, YouTube has taken
down that video and once it has been taken out, you can
see that the infringed video is also removed.
The person who has copied my video that
URL says that the video is unavailable and the video is
no longer available due to a copyright claim by
me - P B Arun Sarathy. So that's how it works. I hope you never get
into this situation, but in case you do, now you know how
to complete your video request removal form in YouTube
Creator Studio. Thanks for watching.