Anyone who has obtained a copyright claim on YouTube can probably tell you about the information complicated, confusing, i layout inconvenience it entails. Fortunately, the platform will be released a tool to proactively notify creators of possible copyright issues with your video before it is released.
Wednesday, social media analyst Matt Navarra he tweeted a screenshot of the feature, which began rolling out in February, which screens a video for “any copyright issues that may restrict its visibility” as it is uploaded.
The screenshot doesn’t show much about how this tool, called Checks, will work, though other reports have speculated that it uses YouTube’s automated system Content ID technology which are currently used by copyright holders to browse YouTube content and find videos or music they own. If you upload a video that infringes your copyright, are allowed to block playback of the entire video or they may run ads on the clip for revenue from the offender’s channel.
In an email, a YouTube spokesperson confirmed the new Checks feature, accessible in YouTube Studio, sstating that the feature is intended to help creators upload videos that meet their rules. The company also published details about new pre-publishing tools in a post on the community site.
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Creators Insider “informal”, created by the people working on YouTube have more details about the broader pre-pub checking system in the video below. While all creators can use these types of scans to find possible copyright issues, creators who post ads on their channel can see how suitable for advertisers YouTube considers your video to be before you upload it.
If it worked well, Content ID would be a fantastic system, but as demonstrated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation a report in YouTube technology this past December, it’s a topic that has historically left creators falsely tagged for copyrighted content or tagged multiple times for a single video.
Even if Checks doesn’t use Content ID, it still doesn’t promise to be a bug. As the screenshot from Navarra points out, the results of the scan “are not final”. Even if a creator is clear that they can post a video, they could still receive a copyright claim later.