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How To Protect Your YouTube Videos





Recently a friend of mine who creates fan videos like me had one of his videos copied and re uploaded onto YouTube. The copied version was almost 100 percent identical except for a 2 second picture of a movie poster at the beginning, and a short video about Christian persecution attached to the end. Apart from that it was the same video, music and everything. The reality is this is a very common problem amongst people who upload videos on or other video sharing sites and it’s extremely easy to do. There are countless numbers of sites where you can download videos and easily upload them onto your channel and claim them as your own. So how do you protect your YouTube videos from being copied?


Before you can protect your videos or go after someone who copied a video of yours it’s important to understand how YouTube views copyrighted material. If your video for example is a fan video using clips from a movie and audio you didn’t create you technically don’t own that video only the original creator of that movie and audio do and they can decide what violates copyright and not. This is why people who create fan videos can’t become YouTube partners.


Does this mean you’re screwed? No there are some things you can do to help protect your videos from those who copied it.


1. Disable embedding


It’s important to remember that this won’t keep others from downloading your video; all this will do is keep others from being able to post that video on other websites, blogs, or social networking sites. Youtube sometimes automatically disables embedding depending on the type of video and if it violates their copyright infringement.


This option can also have a negative effect in terms of the traffic your video receives. By not allowing others to post your video on other sources you lose out on the traffic you would have gotten from that site. Remember even if your video is embedded onto another website you still get the views counted towards your video which help it rank higher in YouTube.


2. Make it private


You also have the option of making your videos private, this way your video won’t show up in search results, play lists or on your channel keeping it under the radar and free from being copied. The downside to doing this is that you can only allow up to 50 people to see it. So if you’re trying to have your video go viral it kills any chance of that happening.


3. Create a watermark


What’s a watermark? Simply put a watermark or “bug” is a way you can put your signature on your video to let everyone know that it’s your video. These can be anything from your name, channel or website URL, a picture, or a logo that you can use to tell people that it’s your video. Whatever you decide to chose you want to make sure your watermark is placed in an area that can’t be easily removed without cutting out major parts of the video itself, at the same time though you don’t want it to be an eyesore.


A watermark in itself won’t protect your video, but if it’s copied and it’s placed well the person copying your video won’t be able to remove it making it easier to spot.


So let’s say you’ve done one or all of these and your video has still been copied and you find it on another channel. There’s nothing in the description box telling visitors where the video came from, what can you do now?


1. Email them


If your video was copied like in the case of my friends video before things get nasty try to email them and ask them to either remove the video or at least put a link to your channel or website and mention that you are the creator of that video. Obviously this won’t always work but it’s a good first step before doing anything else.
Besides who knows they might not be a complete jerk and take the video down. 


2. Flag them and thumbs down


If they refuse to take the video down another option you have is to either flag the video or give it a thumbs down. By giving it thumbs down you giving that video a negative vote. If that video gets enough you can essentially vote that video down the search listings burying it and preventing others from seeing it. It won’t remove the video but if it’s harder to find they lose traffic.


Flagging a video can have it removed from YouTube all together. So how many flags does it take to bring a video down? That depends on YouTube and the video in question. A video that receives only 1 flag can be taken off if it clearly violates Youtube’s terms of service. An easy example would be a video that contains nudity and sexually suggestive content can be taken down very quickly.This happened to my
Zombie Strippers fan video a few months ago. Even though the video contained no nudity somebody didn't like it and flagged it for being sexually suggestive. Because of that one person flagging it the video was banned on Youtube. (It's posted on this site if you want to watch it)  If however the powers that be decide the video didn’t violate their terms of service it’ll take about 200 flags before they’ll consider removing it.


It’s also important to note that you have to be careful when flagging videos. If you flag a video too much your account could be banned from Youtube.


3. Notify YouTube


You also have the option of notifying Youtube by sending them a copyright infringement notification. If you need to contact Youtube to report a video that violated your copyright, or you want to learn more about YouTube infringement policies you can click the link here.

Copyright infringement notification

https://www.youtube.com/t/copyright_notice
 
Youtube copyright tips

https://www.youtube.com/t/howto_copyright

YouTube terms of service

https://www.youtube.com/static?gl=US&template=terms


You might also find this link useful which deals with Youtube video ownership


http://www.reelseo.com/youtube-copyright-ownership/
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