Did you know that you could receive a strike from YouTube if someone flagged
your video for copyright infringement? It feels like somebody has punched you in
the head if so your video will be removed or if you get three strikes your
whole account will be terminated in this video I'm going to explain what
copyright infringement is what features get deactivated how to avoid a copyright
strike and how to appeal a strike so you can get your video reinstated
recently somebody flagged a video on my channel that was three and a half years
old I unintentionally used half a second of music in the background so for three
and a half years nobody flagged my video until now
so YouTube emailed me a message saying the YouTube community has flagged your
video as inappropriate once a video is flagged it is reviewed by the YouTube
team against our Community Guidelines upon review we've determined that your
videos contain content that is in violation of these guidelines so this
was the first time that somebody had flagged one of my videos in the six year
growth of my channel so what is a copyright strike it means that your
video is taken now from YouTube because a copyright owner sent a request to
YouTube to take it down when a copyright owner formally notifies YouTube that you
don't have permission to use their content YouTube complies with the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act and removes your video this is not a law
created by YouTube but it's a standard copyright law for the Internet so what
happens if you receive a copyright strike your livestream access is
restricted for 90 days however you still have access to most of the programs and
features on your YouTube channel if your YouTube account receives two Community
Guidelines strikes within a three month period you won't be able to post new
content to your channel for two weeks if there are no further issues full
privileges will be restored after the two-week period each strike will remain
in your account and expire separately three months after it was issued if you
receive three copyright strikes your YouTube account will be terminated all
your uploaded videos will be removed and you won't be able to create any new
account so how do you get information about your strike YouTube will send you
an email to notify that you have received a strike on one of your videos
you can also view your copyright notices by going into creator studio - channel status and
features - Community Guidelines status how do you resolve a copyright strike
number one you can wait for it to expire a copyright strike will expire in three
months as long as you complete copyright school option 2 email YouTube if you
have YouTube Partner status you can email YouTube directly they'll get back
to you within one business day my experience is that they replied within a
few hours then we continue to email each other several times option three get a
retraction you may be able to offer to delete the video or contact the person
that put a claim against your video and ask them to retract the claim for
copyright infringement if this works the strike against your channel will be
removed option 4 submit a counter notification if you feel that your video
was mistakenly removed because it was misidentified you can submit a counter
notification here are some ways to avoid a copyright strike when using music
images or videos that don't belong to you music YouTube audio library
this contains copyright free music and sound effects some paid services include
audio blocks and audio jungle if you see an attribution required icon next to a
music track make sure you credit the original artist in your description
IMAGES you can get copyright free images from sites such as pixabay and pexels
you can also get copyright free images from google images just go to google
images click tools click label for reuse or labeled for reuse with modification
Photodune is a great place to get copyright free images for $1.00 or $2.00
VIDEOS a couple of great places to get copyright free video footage is pexels
and unsplash you can also search for Creative Commons videos on YouTube for
example enter Big Wave Surfing into the YouTube search box click search click
filters click Creative Commons I'm going to select this
Creative Commons video check the attribution click Show More here it says
Creative Commons Attribution license reuse allowed this means I can use the
video clip in my video and even monetize it video blocks and video hive are two
great places to get paid video clips here's a warning note some low lifes will
steal videos re-upload other people's videos as their own and put them in
creative commons to safeguard yourself against copyright infringement for
videos you've got from Creative Commons include a credit or link to the original
source in the description below your video here are some important things to
keep in mind deleting a video after you've received a strike from YouTube won't
resolve the strike if you receive a strike from YouTube and the appeal
failed then just move on otherwise it will consume your mind if the livestream
feature has been restricted for three months on your channel then just live
stream on Facebook or live stream from another channel back up your videos you
never know if somebody will flag your videos even if your channel has been
around for a number of years make a backup copy of all the videos on your
channel in case one of your videos gets a strike or your channel gets terminated
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