Hi yes, its copyright dispute time again on YouTube and this has been going on since well, day dot. Really copyright claims on YouTube videos and it used to be that the YouTube automated algorithm many years back would like falsely identify just or even regular speech and the algorithm wasn't that good. and there was a spate of you know if false copyright ID claims for content producers like me, but you just disputed it and went away no problems whatsoever. If you'll follow me on Twitter just a couple of days back I got a copyright ID claim for one of my arm older videos and I thought ok well they've matched it somehow it like you know it's just a false match and I'll dispute it.

Sure enough, I disputed it and they said yep, Ok, no worries, we drop our claim and everything was hunky-dory but then I got another one and I disputed that that was on my Chronos high-speed camera view here and then I got the email back saying the dispute was not approved ie. copyright claimant was going. Nope. We have reviewed this manually and we own the rights to it In In In it.

We're going to demilitarize your video and take all future revenue on all views of that video from you. Here's the email that you get after reviewing your dispute ad Rev For rights holders, this is the company which we'll take a look at has decided that their copyright claim is still valid. They're the ones who get to make the decision. Video Title: Chronos High-speed Camera View The copyrighted content is clear vision which we'll get into that is actually correct.

So they have I did the correct thing and claimed to buy a drive for rights holders view claim details blah blah blah. Your copyright owner might disagree with me. The reason gave for disputing the claim may have insufficient or invalid. They're just basically saying bugger off.

No, we own the rights. Well, this morning I got another. There's only four here, but I've got another five emails. so seven total of five different videos.

seven different videos that have been flagged by this same rev for rightsholders for basically the same content A copyright owner using Content ID claims some material on your video. Don't worry, you're not in trouble and your account standing is not affected by this yet. We'll get into that. There are either ads running on your video if the revenue going to cooperate I Know the copyright owner is receiving stats about your video views.

Your video was manually reviewed on behalf of the copyright owner. so it's been manually reviewed by the copyright owner or on behalf of the copyright owner and once again it is found Wild Chase Fugitive and that is correct which I'll show you in a minute. Once again ad Rev For rights holders Now you can go in here as a content producing. Here's one that they've claimed: ads might appear in your videos copyrighted content was found the claimant is allowing their content to be used off.

Thank you! So generous I'm not worthy. However, ads might appear on it and they get the money from any future views until I dispute it and win the dispute. So Wild Chase Now where this is coming from: A lot of my videos. Anything that includes time lapse things I Typically put in a soundtrack in the back of it just to you know, keep people interested while they're watching a time-lapse I've done a few videos like that I don't normally have audio in my videos, but I get that from a program called Our Sonic Fire Pro which I have purchased and I owned the rights to.

It's a royalty-free music thing and here it is: Wild Chase down here and Clear Vision. These are the two that I typically use in my videos and you might I don't want to go. this video might get flagged, but so let's play a quick thing to do it. and Clear Vision sounds like and you can do all sorts of things.

You can change the variation of it, you can change the mood whether or not it's more background D and stuff like that, you can sort of mix it yourself kind of thing. It's quite cool. It's a company called Smart Sound I Purchased this software a couple of years back. If we go down and have a look at the license comparison chart, it says monetized videos on YouTube Vimeo Facebook etc.

The extend both versions of the license cover that I am fully covered I paid for this software I am the rights holder I have a license to use this and that's what I wrote in my dispute claim for one of them my first video and they accepted that the second one I wrote the same thing and they didn't accept it. So I've got another five videos that I have to dispute for this. Now who are Ad Rev for rights holders, you might think there's some copyright troll. Um, I don't think that they are because what they do.

If you go into the website and have a look and they call themselves ad Rev for rights holder. So ad Rev are not the company who is claiming the rights to this copyright, falsely claiming the rights to this copyrighted content. It's actually they act on behalf of the rights holder. So they're like a service company you know.

Are you an independent musician, label or publisher? Our self-service system allows you to easily protect and monetize your content and your copyrighted content on YouTube. So ad Rev have a deal with YouTube where they can upload supposed copyright material. It goes into the YouTube see Id algorithm with the Content ID algorithm and like little snippets of it and then I believe it's a If it's longer than 20 seconds, it usually gets our flag anything under 20 seconds. it usually doesn't get flagged.

That's a bit of a rule of thumb on YouTube but may or may not be correct. It's probably changing all the time. They're not claiming the rights, but they're acting on behalf of somebody who doesn't tell you there is no transparency in these emails. Whose the rights holder who's actually making this claim? You can't actually get this detail.

So I have no idea who's actually making this claim I mean smartsound? They shouldn't be making the claim because they that's their business model. They sell software to produce royalty free music for Channel 4 platforms like YouTube So I don't think Salmon's but it has the same name Wild Chase and Clear Vision. so they someone somewhere has claiming rights to this even though I fully own and have a license for it. Now the other thing is, check this out.

Okay, this is the one that I disputed and it was. My dispute was rejected on the Khronos High-speed Camera one. the claimant has reviewed. Bla bla bla bla bla.

you may be able to appeal this decision. Here it is, appear or reject a dispute down here. But if the claimant disagrees, if they disagree and of course they're going to disagree right? Because they've already reviewed it manually before with your appeal, you could end up with a strike on my channel. Now, if you're not aware, Youtubers If you get three strikes on your channel, right? If it's copyright claims, if it's abuse or whatever it is, your channel gets shut down.

There's no recourse, it just gets shut down. They lock you out. You can't do anything. you're out of the Youtube business like five other videos I have to dispute.

You know if they reject the dispute and then I can appeal, but if I appeal all three of them and lose the appeal, my channel is shut down. They're like holding the gun to my head. It's like they're relying on the fact that YouTube is going to be so scared to do this to actually appeal this dispute that it's not going to work. and I believe you've only got a time limit to do it as well so that I can't just leave it like do maybe one appeal because your strikes disappear after a certain amount of time like a month or something.

I believe I've never had a strike on my channel I Don't think. but yeah, they disappear after certain time if you only got a certain time to appeal all these things. So I believe Anyway, it's just nuts and here we go. We can actually play the matched content in here.

So dude, that's the clear vision song. Like there it is, right? I've got it in the background there and so it matches so it's not like a just a mismatched algorithm thing. Somebody is claiming rights to this smartsound stuff on the smarts system. So Smart Sound should be really pissed about this because they their business models selling this software to Youtubers like me who can produce this sort of music Anyway, it's just nuts.

It's just absolutely nuts. And they rely on the fact that they can just upload so much content in this Content ID system. It could affect thousands, tens of thousands of Youtubers or whatever. Depending on what the content is, they're relying on the fact that people aren't gonna sue them, right? They're just not going to go to the effort.

They're just going to have to take it up the ass. and I go. well. Okay, I Lose all you know future revenue on those videos Anyway, So they're They're basically this ad.

Rev for rights holders. They're a service company, but they're basically anonymizing copyright trolls because I have no idea I have no clue who the rights holder actually is so it's just like unbelievable I I Could contact every ad Rev maybe and try and figure this out or try and sort it out. but like it's just ridiculous. So I and I've got probably a lot of videos with that time lapse are stuff in it.

so I probably expect a few more claims to come through, but obviously I'm gonna have to stop using that I'm gonna have to find some other background music, but then that could get flagged by somebody else and it's just. it's a ridiculous situation that Youtubers are put in like this: Oh, we got a gun to our head. You appeal this: three times. you're out of business.

If you lose, you lose the appeal. You can end up with strikes on your counter. It's just unbelievable. So there's basically a penalty for content producers like me.

It could be a channel ending penalty if you get three strikes on your account for appealing these disputes that you might lose. But there's basically no downside for these companies because there's no recourse. There's nothing I can do. They don't get a three strikes system for you know, incorrectly flagging things or something like that.

You know why can't there be some sort of system like that that if they get more than I know they're a big with lots of claims in everything and they represent lots of content producers. But like if they basically get you know X amount of false claims per day or something, then they should. you lose their license for this Content ID system because obviously it's causing too much issues for content producers. they're basically abusing the systems.

but there's no recourse to that. There's no penalty for these companies at all. So I'm going to go through now and dispute these five new claims and see what happens. I'll keep you updated in the comment and comments and down below and also on Twitter and stuff like that.

So follow along to see. I'm not going to appeal any of them. Well, maybe I can do one and then take a strike on my channel. You know, take one for the team.

Maybe I don't know. But anyway, keep following along. down below. Absolute.

So yeah. ad Rev Unbel it. Like who knows how many copyright like clients they've got uploading all this copyright content. but it's just anyway.

there you go. That's just a little rant of what us Youtubers have to put up with something that I own the rights to and I try and prove it to them and they go. No, sorry, we have to sit. We've deemed that we still own the rights.

Tough titties. Take it up the ass. Thanks. Anyway, if this has happening to you, you know of other channels that have been hit by.

you know this: ad Rev mob on behalf of some anonymous. It could be some anonymous copyright troll we don't know. Unbelievable. Anyway, if you know of other channels hit with the same thing I think I'm in down below.

Discuss down below. Catch you next time.