How YouTube Fights Fraudulent Copyright Claims and Takedowns 

Stop lying RU-vid. You do absolutely nothing against fraudulent copyright claims - as stated by countless youtubers

You need to require the claimant to provide not only a time stamp for music claims, but some proof too. A link to the original source would help, along with the correct name of the track and proof they have permission to represent them. I got a claim from a guy who used public domain music in his video, claimed it as his own... then copyright claimed me and many others channels. Not a single check by RU-vid. A ridiculous situation.

Watching this video tells me that you are aware of the absurd amount of copyright claims out there... the thing is, why is it that instead of making bad videos (like this one) you don't do anything to change this situation? There are laws, laws are bigger than record companies, you should follow the law, not the wishes of the record companies. Remember that creators are your income source, stop neglecting them.

What was explained in this video is NOT TRUE in real world I'm afraid! My channel with around half a million subs was targeted by false copyright claims from one of the content ID owners because he didn't like my videos! The result: 5 strikes! & a complete closure & termination of my 3 channels! (as they were linked to the same gmail account) and even after contacting RU-vid support many times, NO ONE seems interested to even investigate if there was any misuse to the tool!!

How RU-vid Fights Fraudulent Copyright Claims and Takedowns: They don't.

You really need to remake the system, innocent till proven guilty, NOT vice versa.

I made a student film in 2001. I had all original music composed and recorded. So many people have tried to claim it because of BIRD sounds in the video. These were free bird sounds for people to use, and many people have used it in their songs. How the heck can they use bird sounds to try to claim my content? Now SME is monetizing my video because they think a song they made AFTER mine is somehow theirs. My brother composed and recorded all the songs for me! I wrote them about it and explained everything and it was REJECTED. Now if I try to do it again I could get a strike even though I did not use their content at all.

EMI Music claims copyright to Brahms Lullaby! BMG claims Pachelbel! That's in the public domain. No court of law needed! No penalties for them though! It's FRAUD!

Recently RU-vid allowed a construction company in India called "Lodha" to falsely takedown over 40 of the RU-vidr Krishnaraj Rao's videos, because he highlighted the shoddy construction quality of the company. How can RU-vid allow such a blatant abuse of its takedown system? In cases like this, RU-vid should not only reinstate said videos and punish the abuser, but I think youtube should also help the RU-vidr in such cases to fight the abuser in a court of law, because the RU-vidr in 99% of these cases are unable to do so, and these absuers of the system KNOWS it!

I got a take down request even though I own 100% of MY video. This is a clear abuse. The guy, requesting the the takedown, does not like me and wants to hurt my channel. Please review my case.

5:13 Last month I had five copyright strikes on my account due to Content ID claims that misidentified content protected by Fair Use. This took away my ability to upload for weeks, almost resulted in my channel being deleted, and I lost a lot of money to the point where I could hardly afford to eat let alone afford legal help to sue the companies abusing Content ID. In the future I think it'd be best if Content ID claims didn't result in strikes seeing how easy it is for companies to ignore Fair Use and keep content suppressed.

It's so frustrating. Someone has submitted a false copyright claim on our music video. The music arrangement arrangement, mixing, editing, and sound engineering and vocals for the audio track are entirely our own work (for which we worked for around a month) and then suddenly after we uploaded the video we got a false copyright claim. Why does RU-vid not blacklist these people who submit false copyright claims? There should be counter copyright strikes against these people who make false copyright claims just to sit over it for 30 days. RU-vid are you listening???

Why do copyright owners take the entire monetary value of a video because of a few seconds of background TV audio was included? Why can't it be the % of time that the sound is being played?

Everytime he said "our team works hard" I laughed

This may sound nice, but it's not working. I've tried to report people multiple times for abusing the copyright system and all these times I got stuck in a loop of automated and copy/paste replies. RU-vid showed zero interest.

HOW CAN A CLAIMANT GET IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO THE RU-vid REVENUE? This is the first issue that you guys have to fix. We creators, work very hard to contribute to the community only to be abused by troll claimants who gets MORE ADVANTAGE. The issue is simple; if you are protecting creators like us, big or small... you SHOULD protect us!

Hi - I made the counter notification for a video that a had a copyright strike . He made a strike on my piano tutorial , even though it turns out he didn't write the song, he only made a remix - I didn't even make the tutorial for his remixed version, I made it for the original - which he does not own the rights to ... Now after almost a month , the issue has still not been resolved and my video has not been reinstated. Under my copyright notices it turns out he DISPUTED my counter notification of the strike, and it is now under review by RU-vid . It was my understanding that this video MUST be put back up after 10 working days, but I still have a strike on my account, from someone who does not even own the rights . I even reached out to him before I made the counter notification - he ignored me, then after I made the counter notification he finally starting talking to me and was incredibly aggressive. He refuses to just retract the claim - even though it is a piano tutorial that I made with my own keyboard on a song he doesn't own the rights to... How is this possible, and why has my video not been reinstated ? Thanks

Really? Because the same fake company in Brazil has been making fake claims since 2018. I can file a dispute, but the ACTUAL COPYRIGHT OWNER can’t do anything because YOU ‘don’t review copyright content disputes’.

But sir, filing a false copyright claim gives the person doing so a lot of power to do as they please, so why wouldn't scammers abuse it for profit? I mean, I could reasonably copyright claim people illegally and steal their profits, and if they fight me, I can reject their dispute, copyright strike them, and threaten legal action even though I don't own the rights to anything, because that's how the current system is set up. Do you even bother to see why that's a problem?

0:53 "We take abuse of our copyright tools seriously. Except for the big guys. They can do whatever they want."

RU-vid, do this please: When a claimant manually strikes a video, make them submit a PROOF of their ownership and then analyse that proof through your software tools. This alone will solve most of the fraudulent takedowns. Also, BAN repeat false claimants. Why should only creators be presumed guilty until proven innocent? Implement the same standards for copyright trolls too.

I was victimized 3 times by fraudulent video takedowns and RU-vid did absolutely nothing to help me. I was considered guilty by RU-vid for these baseless claims and had to file counter notifications giving the offender all of my personal information in the process. Years of hard work and money spent all went down the drain in a two week period because a malicious channel just felt like attacking me. This is a seriously messed up system that caused me tremendous mental anguish and heartache. This video says zero tolerance for people who abuse the copyright claim system, well I’m here to say I did nothing wrong and had my channel suspended until my first counter notification appeal went through while the attacker was free to make videos and slander me. RU-vid, PLEASE FIX THIS SYSTEM!🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

I also love how he ends the video by saying that if there are any questions to ask them in the comments, yet I see no replies to any posts, even the ones that are asking questions without the frustration behind them.

I completely agree with Übermensch: "RU-vid, do this please: When a claimant manually strikes a video, make them submit a PROOF of their ownership and then analyse that proof through your software tools. This alone will solve most of the fraudulent takedowns. Also, BAN repeat false claimants. Why should only creators be presumed guilty until proven innocent? Implement the same standards for copyright trolls too." It would be THAT EASY!

RU-vid could really improve on the whole process. It seems the claimant has all the power and control even if they aren't legit. RU-vid should verify their identity and validity or their claims before punishing creators. They system seems rigged. Not only that but if you do get a strike it's very difficult to find any complete information on who did it and why specifically they did it. More details re needed.

Why doesn't youtube have an option to dispute a claim that says "The claim is fraudulant" or "This content does not exist in this video"? This is ridiculous. People falsely claiming people's video should be banned from the platform.

The answer is simple, you don't.

I have had a lot of problems with false copyright claims against my videos that RU-vid doesn't bother to check. The steps in this text have worked for me in the past. The example is for music but could also be adapted for video content. Obviously if you have made a genuine mistake don't open a dispute!! I am not a lawyer in any way, just sharing what has worked for me in the past when I am sure I have correctly used video or audio. Any action you take is 100% at your own risk. 1. say "I believe you are pursuing a false copyright claim for 'Track title - Track song' Which does not seem to exist under that title" (the music or video they are claiming to own or manage if incorrectly named) 2. Ask for a timestamp and title if not provided. 3. Ask for them to provide and original source and provide links to the original content, always read the requirements of the original artist, you may have to provide links on your video description to them as requested. especially true of creative commons material. 4. The final step I say the following.... If you feel this is not correct please provide a link to the source material, proof of ownership, and proof of a copyright management agreement for the artist and track. On receiving proof I can either... Take down my video and re-upload in an edited form. Blank out the audio of the offending timestamp. Edit the video from within RU-vid to remove the section in dispute. Or purchase a license from you if you can provide the proof and links outlined above. Unfortunately due to previous dubious copyright claims I never allow a video to remain uploaded and give away revenue. Kind regards, (Name)

Your system is broken and you know it. Every couple of months you come out with more excuses on why original content is claimed by people who don't own it. You're not protecting content creators and you're not fixing the problem.

Just got falsely striked and nothing has been fixed

Really not interested in having stuff explained to me that I already know, or having rules reiterated to me that I already work within. I'll be much more interested when RU-vid announces that they've removed Content ID tools from serial abusers like YAM112003 Endemol and Melberries, and shutting down content farm channels like the Indonesian kid who tried to claim ownership of Sony's God of War when I uploaded a let's play of it. Actions speak louder than words. Then again, it's all moot, because Article 13 stands poised to destroy all of us.

4 years on from this video and the scammers are still trying to steal hard earned monetisation from videos. You've done nothing in 4 years but enable them.

*BUT WHEN YOU DISPUTE IT ITS THE PERSON WHO COPYRIGHTED YOU YOU HAVE TO DISPUTE WITH* *THATS ISN’T GOING TO END IN YOUR FAVOR*

The impact false copyright claims have on the victims and not the perpetrators is an incredible abuse of those who provide all the work for making RU-vid a success. The way how RU-vid fails to deal with these issues is destructive and pathetic. This is especially true for channels where artists play classical music on their own instruments and still get claims and strikes, destroying their work. I have no sympathy at all for the way how RU-vid keeps failing on this.

In December last year I've uploaded a longer video mix (over an hour) of my own created animated videos / cartoons / music videos for kids that I am author of and all music (each song I've produced / composed... etc) I've protected in Sokoj (Serbia) and in Gema (the rest of the World) during the last few years. When I uploaded that video mix - I've added time-lines in description - what music video starts and where... And the same moment I've uploaded - I've got "Copyright Claims" "manually detected (!?) and by several, to me unknown sources (!?) It was large shock, I've sent disputes and got response that I need to prove that my music is composed, arranged and edited by me (!?) I go straight to Sokoj and they told me that this is "mistake" (!?) because they (SOKOJ) created typo-s in song names so all my songs that I've copyrighted appeared under several artist names, even it is the same, only one artist - me. So my songs were listed under "djnick", "djnykk", "deetronic" and "nykk deetronic" (!?) and basically - system recognized ME as author attacking MYSELF as user (!) It was insane month, I think I've spent over 2-3 weeks of annoying meetings, writing e-mails and sending disputes to 7 unknown copyright holders that, somehow (by mistake, they say) - get a hold of my own compositions which I am 100% author of! I've received message from RU-vid "Do not worry - if your videos, manually detected proves that they are truly yours - Copyright Claimers will return you and all money they took will be - refund". And guess what. After horrifying 3 weeks of pain and nonsense - I got all my songs back (with "big Sorry" in e-mail / messages!) and... NO money is RETURNED! Those 7 "wrongly claimed companies" took money during those 3 weeks. When whole video is monetised again - it just started without "Boost". First upload video boost money took those 7 companies. And just to add one more name to make aware of. They are named "[Merlin] KVZ Digital" and they are shutting down everything... It is big clan with fraud shut downs, please research them - you will find lots of fraud claims and they are based in Wienna, connected with Serbia (!) through Romania! They shutting one of my song (out of my video mix) and I've been very angry writing in dispute to immediately remove claim as I am going to sue them in next 24 hours beacuse I am the one and only author of this song! And in next 2-3 days - they released the claim with "Sorry, it was mistake"! I feel terrible after this incident. They are taking down everything from everywhere even from authors they do not have rights to. I am asking you to please check their activity. Thanks.

Meanwhile, people still can copyright claim a video, wait out 29 days, then revoke the claim and instantly renew it instead of being blocked for a year or two.

The Content ID tool used to be horribly abused by music publishers .... and still occasionally. The best example .... if you use Apple Garage Band loops or tracks in your videos ..... music publishers will try and claim ownership of those loops and parts. THEY DO NOT ..... CAN NOT OWN an open source product owned by millions of people. These music publishers have made serious money off of RU-vidrs falsely claiming ownership of Garage Band music. I have fought it every time and won everytime. RU-vid should suspend these abusive publishers.

Richard Grannon filed three bogus copyright takedown claims to ... MY content!!! My account faces termination and until then I cannot upload new content. RU-vid hasn't responded to any of my emails. RU-vid need to eliminate the copyright takedown and strikes system which is abusive and favors claimants, however fake. Disputed videos should be removed and the parties should sort it out in the courts. RU-vid should not appoint itself judge, jury, and executioner on behalf of nearly anonymous third parties.

From what I was told which is unfortunate if true is that many companies who falsely claim videos, like for the use of music you have full rights to use, will monetize them in the dispute process while purposely rejecting your claim the first time as they will receive all the funds that way. To me that is a pretty big loophole that is being abused.

In my experience, youtube does a LOUSY JOB in fighting bogus copyright claims!!!! ALL my videos buys commercial licenses to use the music in my videos. I have gotten dozens of BOGUS CLAIMS and the supposed track I violated sounds NOTHING like the music on my video. I recently got a BOGUS copyright claim and through wasted time/energy to get it removed -- which it did a few days ago. I tried to livestream that same video BUT RU-vid this morning REMOVED (????) it with a warning for a strike, even though claim was released. RU-vid uses state of the art AI systems to identify copyrights violations, yet is VERY VERY SLOW to update copyright claim removal info. and penalizes me (????) with warning/strike when I have done everything legitimately and legally to uphold copyrights with a paid for commercial license. PLEASE RU-vid, GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER AND STOP PENALIZING falsely YT creators.

Easy fix. Attach your debit card to youtube just like Amazon. Then when some one wrongfully copyright strikes and gets proven it's bogus, you get your money back earned x2. The original money your video makes plus that same amount the video made is taken away from the abuser. And youtube gets to deduct their share from the abuser for misusing the tool.

You don't fight false copyright claims. You turn the innocent guilty by letting the guilty put claims on the innocent. It's so stupid. I want to live stream a public domain video that i KNOW is in the public domain but my stream will get shut down because some faker has claimed it. It's so stupid! And don't get me started on having to give my private information to some fake claimant. Not going to happen. This company has been a nightmare since 2018.

Here is an idea, go by "innocent until proven guilty" and not give people a strike until the claiment provides evidence it is their content and does not fall under fair use.

This is a joke, look at TotallyNotMark, or PewDiePie's music videos claimed on behalf of him but its not even his company smh.

RU-vid system is failing.. if someone steals your video and your request a copyright strike. Your the owner of the videos are being terminated for fraudulent for request copyright strike on stolen video.

RU-vid doesn’t check anything they just reply the info to the Troll making the claim. I just make a dispute with With proof of having permission to use the content from the real owner and the response from RU-vid was immediate when it should take more than a month. Saying is not sufficient for the owner ( the troll making that claim) or they maybe employees taking advantage of the system

Btw, today the EU agreed on Article 13

I am currently the victim of fraudulent copyright claims against my content. A single person that lives outside of the United States (so no threat of agreeing to "under penalty of perjury...") is claiming copyright infringement on multiple videos of mine in an attempt to get my channel terminated. I DID NOT INFRINGE ON THEIR COPYRIGHT. I've received 2 strikes in the past 5 days and need assistance in filing a counter-claim. Thank you - any help would be great appreciated before I lose my livelihood to this troll.

RU-vid refuse to take action on anything that is "auto generated" by them, even if it is your own stolen material.

guilty till proven innocent. got it

So, what are you doing about Warner Chappell's false claims against channels like Mumbo Jumbo, who got over 400 over the course of just hours? The company is building a reputation for these false claims, spanning multiple years.

When I assume innocent until proven guilty since 99% of the copyright claims are all false

Stop unfairly demonetizing people, thanks. Stop unfairly demonetizing people, thanks.

Why I don't get is why videos are taken down immediately even though cases have not been settled? They should be taken down only after appeal has been rejected and case escalated to the internal team or AFTER a conclusion have been made in copyright claim cases. You get punished for days and your video removed even when potentially no wrong has been made. Also, the fact that people can make false copyright claims and get away with it is disturbing. I have a content creator doing this to me now, it is not their video and I can prove it, yet my video has been taken down. We'll see what will come out of it, but if RU-vid follows their own guidelines as they claim here, the guy who made the claim against me should have his channel terminated.

I've got my first copyright strike this month, it's a fraudulent claim, my video was taken down immediately and I have to wait 10 US business days to get it resolved! RIDICULOUS!

My channel is being destroyed by bogus claims on my material. There is no dispute button and RU-vid support could care less. I have never seen such a lack of respect for content creators. 7 Years I spent making my channel to have it wiped out by false claims. RU-vid (Google), you need to do better!

BIGGEST PROBLEM ON RU-vid TODAY

I created all of my content and I have 0 purchased content or anyone else's content and one worker who edited my videos has a low resolution, black and white videos snipped of my videos because he was editing them before they were rendered and he threatened me and black mailed me into giving him money. I had to comply and do it, even though I know I have the original size color footage, because I am sure RU-vid would not support me in this matter. IF he uploaded that snipped before I did, I have nothing, literally nothing that can defend me. From my understanding, RU-vid often doesn't even care if you have something to say back. IT felt horrible being black mailed. I had no legal proof of him black mailing me. After the first black mail and when I gave in because he set the clock on it, I decided it is time to contact police and tell them he will try to black mail me again, but he was smart and went away with cash and never blackmailed me again. I feel so horrible that RU-vid has no real team who actually takes a closer look into what is the original footage. At least to a certain degree so that we can allow someone to edit the videos at least. This way I have to edit stupid videos all day long and lose valuable time, not allowing anyone to even get a peek at what i am making because that could ruin my entire life. How horrible...

how we fight people who abuse copyright rights strikes: We dont and lie about it.

Your copyright verification system is bad, because anyone with Internet access can falsely claim copyright. When someone wants to apply for copyright, why not ask them to scan a personal document. To make sure he really is that person ????

Also there's a RU-vidr by the name "Lazy Lu" who abuses her takedown notification against other RU-vidrs for Criticizing her. Looks like someone needs to get educated about Fair Use.

Step 1: That's the fun part. *YOU DON'T*

3 years ago I sent you a great idea to fix copyright issues and it’s still not fixed. And you stand there saying all you have to do is dispute and WE review... you don’t even make the decisions unless it’s a community strike as for copyright it’s actually the claimant that has the final say that’s how messed your system is. After a RU-vidr makes a dispute several things can happen the claimant does nothing for 30 days then the claim gets expired, the claimant blocks or delete the video, the claimant rejects the appeal and strikes the channel. The abuse of copyright on RU-vid is disturbing, videos of people playing a guitar without any other original sounds included get claimed. So many other videos too around the youtube world I can go on forever literally. making a dispute is like jumping in an active volcano 🌋. Your actions prove you don’t care about creators because you’re making so much money from google ads, RU-vid red and RU-vid TV. You make immediate changes on the platform when it comes to children and teens because they’re a huge audience on the platform. And you don’t want migrate them to RU-vid Kids because of your competitors “Facebook” there would be a massive drop in viewership on the main platform but you won’t make immediate changes for creators that built this platform which is absurd, what you don’t understand is every beginning has an end. Each month I check on the google news to check RU-vid updates, and you haven’t updated your copyright at all but you’re constantly creating new shows on Red which equals more dollars 💵 for you and other stuff that majority of creators don’t ask for. You’re destroying yourselves without realising it because you believe you’ll be here forever and dominate the video market without helping creators. If you believe that then karma will find you and do it’s worst on you. Remember this comment that’ s if you ever see it.

random people claim content which doesnt even belong to them

My favorite video is gone, and it has nothing to do with the video the guy claims I am copyrighting. My video is of a Sunrise and his is 4 hours baby songs. Your team has done nothing to help me, and even ad that the claim is real after I took legal actions. So dissapointed and I want my video back!!!

You guys are the biggest joke, I have been submitting counter notices but keep getting rejected. In what angle you're helping us? Your copyright system is broken, can't even help an innocent channel. Any one's giving fake copyright strikes and getting away with it.

*_UMG has screwed me over on my channel with a strike😭😭_*

"Our team works hard" yeah shitting bricks is a hard job.

"How RU-vid Fights Fraudulent Copyright Claims and Takedowns" Short answer, they dont.

RU-vid needs to fix the abused system. I have had copyright claims for songs that weren't even in the video I made.

When will you address copyright trolls like UMG ?

RU-vid does not punish fraudulent copyright claims. They may as well have turned commenting off on this video. They won't even respond here.

My channel has 2 copyright strikes even though it was fair use, I’m am 14 and there is nothing I can do about this, what a amazing platform

I appreciate the importance of protecting the owner of the copyright. It must be annoying doing all that hard work and then having people make use of your content without payment or attribution in some way. I don't appreciate getting months of hard work, hundreds of dollars which took me a long time to save, two weeks of annual leave, and a strategically targeted release date/time for my video getting utterly destroyed as it was with a copyright claim for a video clip which I have the paid-for license and rights to use. I also have written assurances from i-stock whom I purchased the video clip from that I have the legitimate rights to use this content in a produced video. But all this now means nothing as far as getting any return on the huge investment of time and money that I put into this. Gone!

"We like to give a user a chance to explain before taking action on their channel" Would you like to explain why my channel with 23k was terminated for filing a legal take down request on content that I 100% KNOW I OWN BC I MADE IT. You remove RU-vid channels of people reporting real legal problems, but let channels who break the Tos and CGS keep growing. Please for the love of god fix the problem.

RU-vid's answer to a broken system: Create a 6 minute video explaining how it's not broken. Problem solved.

Nice to know you guys prepared a script listing all the issues with copyright that you won't fix. Brilliant work

How can we report false content ID claims? Please investigate Videoland - 緯來電視網 for abusing Content ID. Mistakes does not equal abuse, but multiple mistakes over the year does imply that they don't know how to properly use Content ID and appear to be abusing it.

I'm getting false copyright claims for music on videos that have no audio.

My channel was removed by three back to back fraudulent claims. RU-vid did nothing but send them my personal information.

Creators like Suzy Lu, JustDestiny, Pokimane and Alinity should watch this video. 😉

hai RU-vid, please help us the content creators to fight this scam/fake artist who claimed the songs or another material as for their own profits. It's really annoying. Thanks & appreciate it.

“How youtube fights fradulent copyright claims” Number one: they don’t

Things aren’t exactly cut & dry since the system wouldn’t accept someone’s name saying it’s misspelled so the signature box lights up red not allowing the creator attempting to put in a counter action against fraudulent strikes. Also there are creators who are paying other creators to flag or report channels they want to take down resulting in unfair user interaction and success on the yt community and platform. If a take down copyright claim is requested & they claim the entire content was used when actually a very short portion of the content was used it creates an unfair imbalance that has not prompt action to remedy this problem. The creator is attacked by groups of paid people to ensure their intentions successfully destroy channels with more subscribers and much better content. Creators shouldn’t be permitted to gangstalk other creators & get away with it all while having discussions confirming engagement in illegal & unethical and unfair behavior. When a creator with 5 times or more the amount of subscribers are bombarded by harassment in the form of strike imo yt should be vigilant of more than one creator striking the same channel in one day & in close proximity of the other. There should be an alert of such activity and looked into immediately. Creators that take advantage of the yt platform by behaving in repulsive and dangerous acts during the broadcast of a livestream and quickly escape any disciplinary action taken against them only shows disrespect and disregard for the opportunity to be here while at the same time taking out creators that actually create, channels that produce content the public will enjoy and interact with. These channels press go live and end that’s the extent of their creativity the majority of the hours they’re on live sleeping, at other times being very disrespectful and rude, vulgar. A creator that jumps into Lake Tahoe in November on a livestream without a disclaimer or trigger warnings safety warning or precaution is negligent and irresponsible, or a creator that taunts the audience by grabbing a huge utensil from the kitchen drawer & act as if they will harm themselves on a livestream & someone watching contacted the police that went to her house and she acted like it was a joke. I’m certain there must have been some that reported the video but it was deleted as stated previously. Please 🙏 see if you’re able to catch bad actors with ill intend. One creator 5 strikes in one 1 day by two creators, at another time 2 strikes to another channel one from each creator as the last time again, I mean how obvious can it be? More important unfair practices makes for bad results.

A youtuber has been giving my friend fake copyright strikes

Why, when a copyright claim is made, does the superchat money for said video also go to the claimant? No one is donating money to those a**holes. It should stay with the creators.

Sorry if I missed something, but you didn't really say what we can do when an entity pretends to be a copyright owner but the work they're claiming actually belongs to someone else? (i.e. copyright trolls)

the amount of creators that have been falsely mass copyright claimed with no evidence, costing the billion dollar companies nothing and creators hours upon hours if time and the potential to get their channel shut down, displays how you DON'T help fight fraudulent copy right claims, as there is no repercussions to those companies, it is immoral and guilty until proven innocent

If you are so proud of the claims, why dont you fix them

I got a copyright claim on a video where nobody from the company that claimed the music owns anything from it. My dad recorded all the music himself and we all recorded our vocals.

what if someone has carried out a fake copyright strike and has succeeded in taking down the content?

I would like a clear way to point out that a different (free use) song is being used than that is claimed. Every claim I've received and contested has been by a corporation owning the rights to a song that sounds nothing at all like the one (usually a free use one from my Samsung phone) being used. There seems to be lots of copyright fishing by big corporations who just send out tons of copyright claims. Perhaps this doesn't matter to users who have monetized their channels but I create lots of educational stuff and the ads RU-vid uses for these are often unappropriate for schools.

RU-vid: _Hides the dislike button_ Everyone:"Alright comment section it is"

I am a victim of content ID abuse. RU-vid is not doing anything to protect false content ID abuses blatantly. Instead RU-vid is approving numerous bogus fraudulent and false copyright strikes to accumulate from an abuser under the alias DStv

I just wanna know why the copyright system is so fucked up like bruh😂

Hey RU-vid, just letting you know: if you fail to fix your copyright system, the people who work for your platform will lose money and no longer use RU-vid as their career in worst case scenario. That means your platform is going to fail if you lose creators, and then if your platform fails and everyone deletes RU-vid and finds a better video creating website, you lose money. So if you really want to think about making money, think about everyone on RU-vid who could lose money and patience from false copyright claims from other youtubers or companies that abuse the system for their own personal gain. Practice what you preach and stop proving to the world that companies like you are just lying greedy self absorbed scum exactly like most politicians. Greed comes with a consequence.

this doesn't explain how to report these fraudulent copyright claims 😭

I just got fake copyright takedown and that person is now pretending to be me, and RU-vid wants me to hand over all my personal information to them as 'contact info'... Who in the right mind would give their personal information over to a criminal? You make it so easy to fake copyright strike with no proof of ownership, but make it extremely difficult for the victim to handle. There isn't a single way to directly and safely deal with this, or even contact RU-vid about it. Good job.

You have to demand proof of copyright in all cases that come up for review. You need to also attain if a takedown is the true intent of the copyright holder.

I'm here because someone false copyright claimed me. Time to call my lawyer.