How to Remove Copyright Claims on YouTube Videos

Here's how to remove copyright claims on YouTube

So if you've got a YouTube copyright claim, your video could be demonetized, it could be blocked in some countries, and you could even get a copyright strike against your channel

But don't worry, I'm going to go through the process step by step with the different ways that you can fix this quickly and easily

So YouTube is getting really good at detecting copyright material in your video

so much so that it actually does a check now at the time of you uploading your content

to make sure that it is all good in terms of copyright. But as a general rule

you really want to make sure that you have the correct license or permission to use everything that you're using in your videos

to make sure that you're not going to have any problems. But I'm going to go ahead now. I'm going to upload a video that does have some copyrighted music in it

And they're going to see how quickly that gets detected. And then I'm going to show you what we can do about it

So I'm over here on a test channel of ours. I'm going to go upload, upload a video

We'll go ahead and find our video here. So we'd usually then go ahead, give our video a name

description, fill out all the rest of this stuff. We do need to mark, is your video made for kids

I'm gonna choose no. Let's go next. We're gonna skip all of our video elements

and screens and all of that stuff here. And then on this next place here, this is where it is performing those copyright checks

It says we'll check your video for issues that may restrict its visibility

and then you'll have the opportunity to fix issues before publishing your videos

So everything I'm gonna show you here is in relation to publishing the video initially

but the, these same options you have if you've already got a video that is flagged later on

So once it's already live on your channel too. Now it's only a couple of minutes later and we can see here we get an exclamation mark here

Copyright protected content found. The owner allows the content to be used on YouTube

So it's up to whoever owns the copyright, the music label or the stock footage site even

to decide what they want to do in this case. So we can choose here, see details

So it says here for this specific example, the content ID claim on your video doesn't affect

your channel. This is not a copyright strike. So the channel is not affected. Our video, it's not

currently live on YouTube. So there's no restrictions on where this currently is right now

but does give us some insight here as to what the copyright issue was and where it's found in our

video. So our video here is 34 seconds long. This Blink 182 track was throughout the entire video. So we can

see here, starts at zero, goes to 34 seconds. But in this case, with this specific track

this is going to have no impact on our video. But a lot of music

tracks will and they will restrict where the video can be played and in some cases it could be that

the video isn't able to be played at all. So then we can choose our action here. Now in this case

where it's not really going to affect the channel, we're probably able to get away with it

But it's also worth noting that this channel isn't monetized. So if we put our mouse over here

it says if you become a member of the YouTube partner program, this claim may affect your ability

to monetize the video. So the fact that we don't own the copyright to everything in net can affect

our monetization. And a lot of cases, percentage of or all of the money that that video could make

could be going off to the original copyright owner once we're monetized

But we do get the option here to select what action we would like to take with this

So these are our options We have the ability to erase the song replace the song from YouTube stock music library We can dispute the claim So if we actually had rights to use this track then we can dispute it here

and I'll take you through that process in a minute. Or if it was a longer video and the copyrighted section wasn't the entire video

like it is here, then we can just trim out that section of the video as well

But this first option is something that YouTube has recently overhauled. So it now doesn't just mute the audio track

It'll actually try to remove the music and keep other sounds such as speech

If it can't do that or it doesn't do a good job, then it'll just mute that section of the video

So I'm gonna click on this one first. I'm gonna choose continue. We then get the option to try and erase the song

so remove the claim song in all detected segments while keeping other sounds such as speech

Or we get the option just to mute the video. And obviously in a video like this

where it's someone talking, we kinda want the audio or the video is gonna be pointless

So I would be trying here this first option, which again has been overhaul. So let's give this a go. I'm going to hit save. It says this process might take a while

if we're able to erase the copyrighted song. We'll update any viewing or monetization restrictions

on your video. The video will remain in its current state until this process is complete. So YouTube's

now finished removing that audio. Let's go ahead and click on it here. And let's play that back and

let's see how well this works. You could have the world's best video, but if no one clicks on it

no one's going to see it. Also needs to be related. They can work

that exactly what your video is about, and if it's for them, just

Okay, so it did a pretty good job at the start. I was absolutely blown away with it

And I was like, hey, this is awesome. But skipping through, you can see it's not perfect. The start of it had removed that song

No one's going to see it. Like, that sounds great. You can tell some sort of AI wizardry there

to remove the track, but up here, then there's like static in the background

Best case scenario, if someone sees your thumbnail image, but they, we can hear a little bit of music in there

It can work out, that they can work out exactly what your video is about

and if it's for them. And then it becomes like static. Just from looking at that bumming

But hey, I mean, this means that that section of the video, if this was only a small section

that's done a pretty good job of removing it and it could be the best outcome for you here

to still have this video live on YouTube, especially if this wasn't detected at the time

of you uploading the video, or this is something that's stopping you getting monetized

or making money from your content here, then this could be a solid option

No, it doesn't sound like it's gonna be perfect, but it's gonna be so much better

than just removing that section or having no sound through there. So if we didn't want to erase the song

we wanted to replace the song, we can select replace song, and we then take into YouTube's very basic video editor

We can then go through and find the music track that we would like to replace it with

and we can add that into our video in replacement of the other music track

But this is going to overwrite any audio in our video throughout those sections

So it's going to remove the spoken piece in our video in this case. So that's another option that might fit your unique case

I'm gonna go discard changes, but the other option that we have here is to file a dispute

You can dispute a claim if you've got the necessary rights to the content

So you got permission you got the license or you got some other valid reasons Maybe things like fair use It says it can take up to 30 days for a final resolution and your channel won receive a strike if your dispute gets rejected

So to file a dispute, we want to obviously click on this and go to continue

It then outlines the process here for you. You want to make sure that if you are going to file a dispute, that you do have the necessary

rights or a valid reason. But the process here says what to expect

We're going to submit this dispute. It's then going to be refute. buy the claimant and then we'll get our final outcome. So the next step from here then

would be to hit continue and we can then specify the reason for this dispute. Do we own the original

content? Did we make this thing? Or do we have a license to use it? Or are we saying it was fair use

Like I have significantly transformed the content claimed in my video. The video is protected by

fair use, fair dealing or similar expectations. So if it falls under that category

select that box or if it's something that's out in the public domain and free to use

you can mark this option. For the purposes of this video, I obviously don't have the copyright license

but I'm going to choose license so we can get to the next screen. But it's also quickly worth

pointing out that there are reasons here that aren't valid reasons to dispute your copyright claim

Like you bought a copy of these songs, or you bought the video, or you're not going to monetize

your content, or you gave credit to the copyright owner in your video or in your video description

That's not a reason to file the dispute. So we'll go continue. We've then got to read through this

page here and agree that we still have the correct license in our case and that we do want to file

a dispute. So it's telling us here to make sure that we understand the terms of our license to make

sure that we weren't in breach of the license that we had. We'll need to provide a copy of our

license agreement or anywhere that we have been given permission. If we had something in email from

the copyright owner saying that we could use it, we want to have all of that stuff here ready

to submit on the next page. And it's also asking us here to look for any country specific restrictions

within our license here as well. But once we're all good with these, we'll check the box

It says, I have permission from the content or the copyright owner or obviously a license

We'll go continue. And then it's gonna ask us here to provide our license information

And so he gives specifics that will help the claim and verify your permission to use this content

which will help them process your dispute. It's given you some sample questions here

and things to answer in here. So what rights does your license grant? Do you have a copy of your license

Which countries does your license cover? So you go through, and fill this out, provide as much information as you can

And then you will need to tick these three boxes here and agree to this to actually dispute the claim

So my video does not infringe the claimed copyright. I understand that the claimant will be able to review my video

and dispute my rationale. And I understand that filing fraudulent disputes may result in termination of my YouTube account

So you really only wanna do this if you legitimately have a license or strong grounds

for disputing this. We then need to add our signature down the bottom here, typing out our full name and then we hit submit and then that's going to go off for review

That is the process to dispute a copyright claim on YouTube. And then when that's done

you will get a notification on your YouTube studio dashboard area It be up the top in that notifications area when that has been reviewed and it give you the outcome of that whether you were successful or what the next steps are in that case Now if you looking on your channel to see if you already have any copyright issues

you just wanna come to the YouTube Studio dashboard area, come to content, and then in here

where you can see all of your videos, shorts, live streams, all of your content, you'll be able to scroll down

and see any here that do have restrictions or copyright issues. So here is our video that we've uploaded

and it's got one copyright issue. here. You could also run a search here or filter your videos by ones that have copyright issues

which is going to be helpful if you've got a lot of videos on your channel. Now it's also worth noting

the copyright area over here on the left. If we click on this, this really serves as the

opposite of what we've just covered. So it says if you're looking for a copyright claim that someone

made on your video to go back to that video list, this content tab here. But if you have submitted

any takedown requests for other people that might have used your content, then that's what

this page here is about. So I've switched over now to our main primal video channel

and again I'm on this copyright page to show you what it looks like when people have ripped off some of your videos

So everything that is in here is where someone has used some or all of our video

in their content. And YouTube is so good at this that'll even tell you what the percentage matches

So this person here, 100% of our video, is in their video

So they've literally downloaded our entire video here and they've uploaded it as their own

The irony of it is, is it's our older version this video, how to remove copyright claims on YouTube

And they've totally downloaded it without permission and uploaded it to their channel

It tells you how many views that video has and how many subscribers that channel has

But you can see if we scroll down here, so this case here, for example, this video here

40% of their video is including our content. And you can see for us in this case

this is showing one to 10 of many. So this happens all the time

But if we did wanna issue a copyright claim or strike against this channel for this specific video

all request a takedown of that, then we can do that here on this page. Then we have some options here

We can archive this so we can ignore it. We can request the video be removed from YouTube with this

button here. We can contact the channel to ask them to take it down or to reach out to connect with them

And the next one here is we can go and view that channel on YouTube. If you want to go and watch

this video, then we can click on it here. And if we hit the little drop down arrow over the side

then we get a bit more context around it. And again, it says, how much of our content appears

It's the entire video. But this again just goes to show you how well YouTube understands

the videos that are being uploaded on YouTube. And it knows really quickly

when there is copyright infringement or duplicate content. So again, wherever possible

use the stuff that you own, use the stuff that you have the correct licenses for

And that's why for us, we use places like story blocks and like art list and epidemic sound

to get our music, to get our sound effects and to get our stock footage

So that way we know that we're not going to have any issues with this stuff moving forward

So if you want to find out more about the best places to get stock video footage and music for your videos

check out the videos are linked on screen. As always, there is a bunch of other resources and tools to help you even further down in the description box

And I will see you in the next video