How to Avoid YouTube Copyright Claims [video]

That was a really long video just to explain a simple premise.

YouTube won't change, they exist to make big brand partnerships, to generate money from embedded ads, and to collect revenue from any account that wants to be viewed by charging for paid promotion.

YouTube also has volumes of content, most of which barely gets seen, while they have a massive user base that is unsatisfied with recommendations they get.

The content ID system is abused by black hat hackers regularly to make money and YouTube does relatively little to stop it because it doesn't cut into their overall platform revenue. The content ID system also serves big business in supporting a gate for what is sampled and remixed, and it frequently is only applied to medium and small creators, which often blacklists those creators from the site altogether.

The content ID system has also helped me in small ways to protect my own IP, as I've found that a few people directly copy my own content and re-upload it as their own, so it's not all bad.

There are thousands of accounts that transform audio (slowing it down slightly and doing other things like adding reverb to audio) which literally steals money from musicians on the platform.

YouTube's technical support is extremely weak, because they really don't care about anything other than pleasing shareholders now because of the long line of people who upload endless streams of video content in hopes of being discovered, but the market is totally saturated with creators, and small creators only make pennies because they're always pitted against hackers and large corporations with lots of money for attention.

YouTube is still useful if you know how to dig deep and find content where people aren't stretching out presentations just to improve their "watch time" metrics or following the scripts of creating bright thumbnail images, using clickbait-ey titles, and saying "like, follow, and subscribe" over and over again in every video.

YouTube won't change until people stop following the fake sense of conformity it encourages. The majority of platform creators are spending tons of money and time creating content that only works on YouTube ritually for no pay, and subjecting themselves to rules based on whims of YouTube executives, that work to please shareholders and major accounts, not to find new talent and to drive innovation for the platform that benefits creators.

The above is likely a >2-3 minute video that could save a lot of creators tons of money and frustration, but it would never be recommended by YouTube's algo just based on the subject matter.