Are you in control of your channel?

Read every aspect of the article and make sure you sign with a reputable network.
 
Kaizahr said:
When you sign a contract, are you in complete control of your channel? What about once the contract is over? I remember reading an article online about Ray William Johnson and the problems he was having with Makers Studios. He ended up halting production on the "Your Favorite Martian" channel. I don't want this to happen to me so I was wondering if there is a possibility that a network can claim your channel and possibly take it away or force you to seize production on it? Also, can you switch networks once your contract is over? Will you keep all rights to your channel? Just curious and not well informed on this topic, which is why I ask the YTTalk community. Thanks!
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It depends on the contract and who you sign with, and actually with the RWJ situation he owned 80% of his channel and 60% in both his other two, when he left Maker gave him then 20% ownership back of his channel in return for both 40%`s in his 2 other channels.
 
I think its misunderstood by saying complete ownership. When you sign with a network, as Ray said, you agree to basically hand over your AdSense to the network. You are indeed in control of your content but in reality the CMS holder ( Maker, Fullscreen, etc. ) owns your account. They own the content you upload and have the power over your account. With larger companies you can trust them usually but in the case of Iricom, or other "networks" I would recommend being careful. A contract is only as good as the person upholding it.
 
Billy Gates said:
I think its misunderstood by saying complete ownership. When you sign with a network, as Ray said, you agree to basically hand over your AdSense to the network. You are indeed in control of your content but in reality the CMS holder ( Maker, Fullscreen, etc. ) owns your account. They own the content you upload and have the power over your account. With larger companies you can trust them usually but in the case of Iricom, or other "networks" I would recommend being careful. A contract is only as good as the person upholding it.
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I don't think this is accurate. Unless you authorize a program of theirs to make changes (or just hand over your login info) I didn't think they could change anything outside of what ads were shown if YOU chose to monetize a video.

Situations like where Machinima spammed likes of their specific hub videos were only because
1) the language as in the contract allowing it
2) channel owners had authorized such access by an external application
 
When a channel is linked to a CMS YouTube has said specifically that they will not intervene. The account is linked to a CMS and can only be removed by the network. In theory as I said the network has the control.
 
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