How YouTube Detects Music Video Copyright Infringement
What Is Copyright Infringement and How Does It Happen? Before we get into the details of how YouTube's Content ID system works, it's important to understand why it exists in the first place. Content ID was created with the goal of finding and identifying instances of copyright infringement in YouTube videos. When a person writes a song, a poem, a book, or a video, they own it and have the only right to sell and profit from it. For example, if you write a wonderful ballad about your valiant fight against toe fungus, no one can legally sell or profit from it, nor can they use it in their movies without your consent. You may think that, with 300 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, the company could never police all of its content. You're such a little fish in an ocean of adorable cat videos that incorporating Ariana Grande's current single into your video can't possibly matter. That is not the case! That's because YouTube hates it when you infringe o...