Monetize Copyrighted Content

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Monetize copyrighted content. Anyone on youtube needs to follow our community guidelines. If you distribute somebody elses content without their permission its a copyright violation whether you make any money off of it or not. Content that violates youtubes community guidelines is not eligible for monetization and will be removed from youtube.

In case you want to monetize such content ensure that you have all the necessary commercial rights to use the content. This drove creators to generate better content on the platform and improve their reach. There were a lot of users on the platform who uploaded copyrighted content and content owned by other people in order to make money from videos.

For copyright purposes what matters monetarily is the potential loss to the copyright holder. Monetizing creators should know that our guidelines dont just apply to individual videos but to your channel overall. Thats simply the way youtube currently works.

Nintendo announced new monetization rules for youtube creators that will make it easier for people to upload lets plays and livestreams using nintendos game footage. So for example if you put up a song on youtube and 500. In order for creators to monetize videos their channel needed to have over 10000 lifetime views on their videos.

Sometimes rights owners require you to credit the creator of the content or give proof of purchase to use it in your video for commercial purposes. What often happens in this case is that the copyright claimant will monetize your content and since you use their material usually without their permission there isnt much you can do about it. When you receive a copyright claim youtube as a third party is basically saying that you the creator can use the copyright owners content but the owner of that copyrighted content has the right to place adverts on your video and earn income from it.

The decision comes ahead. The fact that you arent making money doesnt make it legal. This is a common misunderstanding.

You can monetize royalty free or creative commons content if the license agreement grants you rights to use it commercially. So it will be clear to you by now that we cannot monetize copyrighted videos until we fulfil the conditions of the agreement with the copyright owner and the permission should be explicit and in writing.