Hey, Derral here!
Now let me tell you as a content creator nothing's more frustrating when you produce a great
video and someone swipes it and uploads it to their YouTube channel, without your permission.
It is frustrating!
Now one of my loyal subscribers, HostileAE sent me an email this week saying "Hey Derral
people are copying my YouTube channel and my videos, how do I stop them?
Please help me, I'm so stressed out because people are copying my channel and taking my
videos and pretending to be me."
Now listen, HostileAE I really feel your pain.
This happens to me all the time.
In fact last year I had up to 42 people pretend to be me on G+ and also YouTube.
What?!
Now look at me!
Who in their right might want to pretend to be me?
I don't understand.
Now if you believe if your material was posted on YouTube without your authorization this
video is for you.
And I'm going to show you how to take control of the issue and how to report a copyright
complaint with YouTube.
Now I will also show you the fastest and easiest way to notify YouTube of copyright infringements.
Let's take a look!
Alright, so one of the frustrating things as a content creator is when somebody actually
takes your work and put it on their channel and tries to monetize on that.
So, I found this video right here made by a specific individual.
He basically took all my content, stripped out me at the beginning and the end and made
it his video and monetized that.
And you can see here that he has 2,000 views, which that could have been 2,000 views for
me as well.
So what we're going to do is report him so you see the flag here, let's go ahead and
do this.
And you can see that you can do all the different reporting, but you want to make sure that
this is actually legit, because if it's not YouTube could actually shut you down and blacklist
you from actually creating a YouTube account.
So you could talk about the issue that it's sexual content, violent, hateful, harmful,
child abuse, spam or misleading, or infringes my rights, which in this case it actually
infringes my rights because he actually took my content and put it on his channel trying
to make money off of that.
So I'm going to go ahead and say infringes my copyright.
Then you go ahead and hit submit and what you need to do next is you need to make sure,
and I'm telling you, you need to make sure you do not make false claims, because you
can be suspended on your own account or have other legal ramifications.
But if this is legit, so you go ahead and hit submit a copyright complaint.
And then basically you go through this form and they ask you all about it, say hey, is
it inappropriate, that you appear in this video without permission, or it's privacy,
trademark, whatever it may be and in my case it's actually copyright infringement.
And it's who's affected, that would be me.
And then basically it will pull in this information right here.
They want to know the videos to be removed, and this is the video that's infringing, so
let me go ahead and go to that video, pull in the URL, let's go ahead and do that.
And then you can say My YouTube video was uploaded by another user, or it's my name,
my original song, my software, my artwork, my live performance, my video, whatever it
may be.
Ok in this case it was my video and what you want to do is paste it in here of your original
video and it says where does the content appear, so if it's only like a quick segment you can
actually put a time stamp of when it is, so they can actually click on it and see.
For me it's the entire video and basically what's going on because we've got to go through
the complaint here we actually have to tell them who we are.
Now here's the thing, you guys, I'm serious you do not want to monkey around with this,
this is only for legitimate concerns because you're getting YouTube involved and if you
do anything like this that is faked or trying to be harmful to someone else and just tie
them up on a specific video they will come after you and they will whoop you.
Trust me, they track everything.
Ok so we're going to go ahead and put the information about myself here.
Ok once that's done what you need to do is basically click the following boxes.
That you've done this in good faith, and this notification is accurate, and here's some
legal things, so under penalty of perjury, I mean this is something that you need to
do as well.
And it's also talking about that you acknowledge section 512f, and that I also understand that
using this tool will lead to the termination of my YouTube account.
And then you need to type in your signature and then go ahead and submit complaint.
Now your complaint has been submitted and you will receive an email and they will actually
be notified of this as well that they are using your copyrighted material.
Now, special note, I know that several people made false claims saying that they owned the
copyrighted material just to get rid of a competitor or their ranking on YouTube.
And guess what?
It backfired on them.
They actually got suspended on YouTube.
YouTube takes this very seriously, you do not want to monkey around with this because
you could really be banned for life.
Now if I could only get YouTube to do something for my copycat problem.
Hey!
What are you doing?
Stop that!
Oh my gosh, ok!
Well let's see you say this!
I thought so...
Now that I've taken care of my copycat problem why don't you subscribe to the real Derral
Eves and watch all my videos.
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