youtube, control of your content.
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Posted in the ‘Automotive Vloggers’ thread, but didn’t gain much traction. Recently on Joe Rogan, Chris Harris recounted meeting someone, who stated he’d put his kid through college on the back of CH’s youtube content.
I recall seeing on an overseas platform, CH, FF, and PM, doing a Q&A session, thanking their fans on that platform, although it’s fairly clear that platform does reimburse all content creators. I’m sure this not a new thing, foreign platforms are awash with old episodes of Top Gear.
However, a trend I’ve noticed recently (again, I’m sure it’s not new) is where a 3rd party individual, takes videos from channels, then bundles them up as there own channel/network, then posts then across a variety of platforms.
E.g. ‘van life’, people documenting their life/experience of travel/living in a van. A 3rd party gathers all the European examples, bundles them together to create a channel ‘European Van Life’ clearly the content creator is not in control of this and potentially is loosing out.
Q. How do content creators deal with this?
I recall seeing on an overseas platform, CH, FF, and PM, doing a Q&A session, thanking their fans on that platform, although it’s fairly clear that platform does reimburse all content creators. I’m sure this not a new thing, foreign platforms are awash with old episodes of Top Gear.
However, a trend I’ve noticed recently (again, I’m sure it’s not new) is where a 3rd party individual, takes videos from channels, then bundles them up as there own channel/network, then posts then across a variety of platforms.
E.g. ‘van life’, people documenting their life/experience of travel/living in a van. A 3rd party gathers all the European examples, bundles them together to create a channel ‘European Van Life’ clearly the content creator is not in control of this and potentially is loosing out.
Q. How do content creators deal with this?
I've noticed this, too.
Often the repackagers will add some form of meaningless drivel by means of "commentary" - presumably this allows them to argue it has some element of originality based on "fair use" of someone else's materials, rather than straight theft.
Often the commentary is an AI voice working off a script.
Absolute youtube slop.
Often the repackagers will add some form of meaningless drivel by means of "commentary" - presumably this allows them to argue it has some element of originality based on "fair use" of someone else's materials, rather than straight theft.
Often the commentary is an AI voice working off a script.
Absolute youtube slop.
It's fundamentally IP theft which YouTube doesn't care about as long as it can punt adverts.
Similar is also happening on Spotify for music and Temu (theft from Etsy) etc etc.
People won't be making huge amounts, but with automation and minimal effort can likely get a decent revenue stream.
Similar is also happening on Spotify for music and Temu (theft from Etsy) etc etc.
People won't be making huge amounts, but with automation and minimal effort can likely get a decent revenue stream.
YouTube will flag up videos/channels/creators that have used your content, or at least YouTube's "Content ID" should do this. It’ll tell you how much of your content has been used. You can then raise a copyright claim against the creator/channel. If one channel copies lots of your content, you’re better off making a claim for each copyright infringement, as 3 cases should take their channel down.
As for other platforms, there are ways to get in contact to have content taken down. If it’s a platform that isn’t mainstream, then you’re probably less likely to have success in getting content removed …
I haven’t had much experience in raising copyright claims, as fortunately no one has copied any of my videos … yet!
As for other platforms, there are ways to get in contact to have content taken down. If it’s a platform that isn’t mainstream, then you’re probably less likely to have success in getting content removed …
I haven’t had much experience in raising copyright claims, as fortunately no one has copied any of my videos … yet!
Edited by Ikemi on Sunday 22 December 19:45
daqinggregg said:
I’m referring to content, being taken and repackaged and posted on platforms, other than youtube.
Ikemi said:
As for other platforms, there are ways to get in contact to have content taken down. If it’s a platform that isn’t mainstream, then you’re probably less likely to have success in getting content removed …
YouTube is better at this than most social media platforms, imho. daqinggregg said:
Q. How do content creators deal with this?
If a platform is unresponsive to copyright infringement, there isn't much you can do. The only silver lining is that it's free advertising and some viewers might seek out the source content, rather than the bundled content. Also, considering payment per thousand views based on location, some of these countries/viewers might not be as important to the content creator. The highest paying countries on my channel are US, CA, UK and Australia ... 
Edited by Ikemi on Monday 23 December 12:46
Happend to me twice, both times YouTube sorted it out within 24 hours.
However,
I keep getting Copyright claims against my videos saying that my video breaches someone elses. Upon checking, there videos arent even car related. You have to go through the process of raising a counterclam and until its sorted out, you loose revenue. The process is a job.
Its upto you, the creator to prove your innocent.
However,
I keep getting Copyright claims against my videos saying that my video breaches someone elses. Upon checking, there videos arent even car related. You have to go through the process of raising a counterclam and until its sorted out, you loose revenue. The process is a job.
Its upto you, the creator to prove your innocent.
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