YouTube Help Youtube blocked my video

[cinque8]

Hello,

Last year I uploaded to Youtube a four minute video to pay tribute to a relative of mine who had passed away. I included in the video a 69 second sound track of the six minute 1980s Ojays song called: Family Reunion. To my great surprise, Youtube blocked the video, claiming a copyright violation. To me this is very petty!

 

[talanajordan]

hi there, sorry for your loss! youtube blocks songs a lot, the only way to not have it be blocked it so layover a noncopyrighted song over that song

 

[cinque8]

Thank you for the info Talana

 

[Beanie Draws]

Yep, this has happened to me twice. If you use someone else's music, you just have to accept whatever they wish to do with it, or just not use copyrighted music. Doesn't matter if the music volume is low, they can pick up low volume music while you're talking. I just decided to take down the two videos I had that were blocked in some countries. They weren't getting any views anyway, they were like, my third ever video and didn't represent me anymore, so no big loss and was a learning experience not to do it again.

 

[SILTHW]

There is a reason that YouTube finds these and blocks them so quickly.

They have a partnership with ASCAP, the largest music licensing service in the US

 

[cinque8]

Very good information SILTHW! All of my friends say: Just move the video to Vimeo.

 

[Ragulsundaram]

Never use copyrighted contents in your video. This can affect your channel. Be glad that youtube just blocked your video. They have the power to kill your channel

 

[cinque8]

OK, I have another question. There are millions of Youtube videos out there. My tiny video was only about 4 minutes long, and I listed it as "private" to be incognito. So how did they even find it?

 

[Damon]

There is a reason that YouTube finds these and blocks them so quickly.

They have a partnership with ASCAP, the largest music licensing service in the US

Yup, that's why I started composing my own music.

 

[Beanie Draws]

OK, I have another question. There are millions of Youtube videos out there. My tiny video was only about 4 minutes long, and I listed it as "private" to be incognito. So how did they even find it?

I had a video get copyright claimed/blocked before it even went public (using the Godzilla theme song) google have a pretty significant copyright id system, so even if it's private they will be able to claim it, that's basically why they say to wait an hour or so before publishing to check to make sure a video doesn't get claimed unintentionally.

Also, if a blog has used your video, even if it's private or unlisted, the url will still exist.

 

[Tito Tim]

Quite often I would get videos flagged during the upload. So I do not wonder how mine get noticed - but how others do not.
Generally the claimant just takes the monetization, I did have one Sinatra holiday song blocked in Germany. That seemed odd...

I just make sure I do not use other people's music now. There is almost always background music as I walk around - the Philippines is a very loud country. Now I just do not use the sound. I record the vid, and do voice over later. There is pretty much no way around all the music here.

 

[Damon]

Sinatra blocked in Germany? That is odd. Stinkin' computers.

 

[IanDominicTV]

My recommendation for this is to redo the video but with copyright-free music.

 

[Beanie Draws]

Sinatra blocked in Germany? That is odd. Stinkin' computers.

I once had a video blocked in germany. actually, for a while I couldn't even watch this video locally as it was blocked in my own country so I just took it down.

This one always makes me laugh as the trailer was 2 minutes I think, and I make an 18 minute ANALYSIS of it, as a form of study, but nope, it got copyright claims. I can see why I guess, they have the right to, but just a shame that it wouldn't be considered fair use and if you try to appeal, they CAN strike you if they decide to not overturn the appeal.

 

[Ragulsundaram]

Apparently the music rights was owned by sony who are notorious when it comes to music rights. You can cut the portion or delete the video if you don't want to make them money on your work