Hey guys, my name is Tim Schmoyer and it's Thursday, time for some YouTube Q&A
If you have a question about YouTube, audience development, anything like that
That I can answer for you maybe, please leave a comment below or there's
A link in the description text below this video here on YouTube where you can submit a video of yourself
Asking your question and I would love to feature it here and interact with you that way also.
Today's question comes from 'haveabestlife' and they asked this:
"Hey Tim, Your Channel has Helped me alot! Thanks buddy!" - You're welcome!
"I have a Question. My Account has got a Copyright Strike by youtube so now how can I get Rid of it!
I have deleted all Videos which are not mine. Please Help!"
Yeah, Copyright Strikes are no bueno because if you get 3 of them you're banned from YouTube
And you can't even create another account but once you start getting them you start
Losing features on your account as well
You lose custom thumbnail, you get time limitations, and it just becomes - just don't get Copyright Strikes.
But if you do have them, can you get rid of them?
Kinda. There's a help article from YouTube that I'll put in the description text below this video
That kinda outlines everything I'm about to give you
because basically I'm just telling you exactly what the article says
You receive a Copyright Strike on your channel when YouTube receives a complaint that something
In one of your videos actually violates their copyright ownership
Whether you're using their content without permission, or something like that.
They submit a claim against your video and when YouTube validates it and removes your video
Because of that infringing copyright material
You receive a Copyright Strike. If you receive 3 of those your account is suspended.
All your content on your entire channel is removed and you are prohibited from ever creating a YouTube account again.
So, you might not want to screw this one up.
Now just to be clear, a Copyright Strike is not the same as a Content ID match.
A Content ID match is when you use a clip from someone else's video
Or maybe you took their entire video and uploaded it to your channel
Which is a huge taboo and hopefully none of you guys are doing that
But let's say you took a clip from one of my videos or someone else and you added
Some commentary on to what they were saying
Well YouTube recognizes the part of your video that's actually from someone else's video
and says, 'Hey this content actually belongs to this creator over here, not to you.'
And if the other creator chooses to do so, they can either block your video from being viewed on YouTube
They can simply monetize the ads against your video and take the revenue for themselves
Just because YouTube positively identifies some content that you used from another video
In your video is not a Copyright Strike, so don't get those 2 things confused.
HaveABestLife, what you're trying to do is thinking "Well if I just remove any material from my channel
that is not 100% owned and created by me then I should be safe
And that is true going forward but it does not remove Copyright Strikes that you have in the past.
So what should you do if you do have a Copyright Strike and you want to restore
Your account to good standing.
Three things: #1) You can go to YouTube's Copyright School, which is essentially the same thing
as going to like Defensive Driving if you've gotten too many speeding tickets
You can go to their Copyright School and if you don't receive any more Copyright Strikes within
6 months then your strike will be removed and you'll be restored to good standing.
So that's good news.
#2) You can ask the person who submitted their claim against your content to simply retract it
If they release their claim of copyright infringement on your video then your Copyright Strike goes away
And #3) If you feel like your content was mistakenly identified as Copyright Infringement or you actually
Do possess written permission to use the material or whatever
You can submit a counter-notification and kinda go through a back and forth with the person
Who submitted the Copyright Claim and hopefully they'll either release it or
You still get screwed in the end, so that's an option.
It's important to know that just because you feel like your content falls under Fair Use that YouTube
Actually doesn't care; they do not go into negotiations to figure out if something
Falls under Fair Use or not
The only person that can make that determination is a judge in a court of law
Which means you must go to court with the copyright holder in order for that to be legally cleared up
So I just personally try to stay clear of all of that type of stuff
If any of you guys have ever had a Copyright Strike against your channel
I'd love to hear what you guys did to resolve it and if you got it resolved or not
Personally I have had Copyright Strikes against my main vlogging channel for my family
Because back in 2005-6 when I started doing this, no one was thinking twice about using copyrighted
music in their videos and all that kind of stuff
And then once that stuff got implemented
Boom! I got smacked hard with a bunch of them.
So I did remove all those Copyright Strikes just by going through the very process that I
Explained and outlined for you guys here.
So I do know what works so that's good news
Hopefully that's good news for some of you guys as well.
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