Just Discovered A Carbon Copy Of My Channel - Advice Needed

[FuzzyHead]

Hi all,

I've just discovered that some cheeky person has copied 40 of my videos & used them to set up their own new channel.

Plus they're all monetized, which could mean one of two things .. upon uploading, YouTube has correctly matched them with my videos & therefore any monetization payments should go to me ... Or more worryingly, YouTube hasn't matched them to the originals & someone is profiting from my videos.

But how do I tell?

If the content has been correctly matched, then I might decide to leave it .. but if not, I need to submit a take-down notice.

Lastly, if I do need to submit a take-down notice, do I have to make 40 separate claims for each of the videos (hopefully not) or is there a `one form does all' method?

Thanks for any help.

Fuzzy.

 

[WolfWraith]

Lastly, if I do need to submit a take-down notice, do I have to make 40 separate claims for each of the videos (hopefully not) or is there a `one form does all' method?

I can't help with the matched info but if you have a content ID system set up you should be able to see any content matched against yours but I could be wrong there. As for the quote above, yes you'll be better off reporting each video and it's recommended to do them 1 to a few days apart. Although the + is that you won't have to report all 40 videos because the channel will only need 3 strikes to be closed.[DOUBLEPOST=1438610334,1438610200][/DOUBLEPOST]On a side note, how did you end up finding the channel with 40 of your vids?

 

[FuzzyHead]

]On a side note, how did you end up finding the channel with 40 of your vids?

Thanks for the reply & help Wolf.

I was just checking the rank of one of my videos & two versions of it came up in the search results. So I then clicked on the `bogus' channel name & discovered it was created yesterday with 40 of my videos on it.

 

[Furry Gurus]

Hi all,

I've just discovered that some cheeky person has copied 40 of my videos & used them to set up their own new channel.

Plus they're all monetized, which could mean one of two things .. upon uploading, YouTube has correctly matched them with my videos & therefore any monetization payments should go to me ... Or more worryingly, YouTube hasn't matched them to the originals & someone is profiting from my videos.

But how do I tell?

If the content has been correctly matched, then I might decide to leave it .. but if not, I need to submit a take-down notice.

Lastly, if I do need to submit a take-down notice, do I have to make 40 separate claims for each of the videos (hopefully not) or is there a `one form does all' method?

Thanks for any help.

Fuzzy.

You can see who monetizes the video with the heartbeat extention.

 

[XXLRay]

Three copyright strikes will terminate the channel by the way. So depending on what you want to achieve it may be sufficient to report three videos.

 

[FuzzyHead]

You can see who monetizes the video with the heartbeat extention.

Thanks Furry, I've just installed the Heartbeat extention & the plot thickens ...

According to Heartbeat's data, my stolen videos are being monetized by AwalUKLimited which is a musical distribution, licensing & marketing company. Which is really weird, because you would have thought YT would have also (incorrectly) matched my videos to AwalUKLimited when I originally upload them.

So not only have I got someone stealing my videos, I've also got a company claiming copyright over the stolen videos, but not the originals on my channel !?!

Jeez, it's never easy .. um .. help .. anyone?

 

[WolfWraith]

If you actually own the videos as in whatever is in it is your own original work then just report 3 of their videos over the course of a few days then see how it goes.

 

[FuzzyHead]

If you actually own the videos as in whatever is in it is your own original work then just report 3 of their videos over the course of a few days then see how it goes.

I will, but it's really odd that AwalUKLimited are claiming ownership over the copied videos, but not the originals.

Which probably means once I file a claim, ownership of the originals might be questioned too .. It's not a problem, as I do own the copyright, but it's definitely a pain.

 

[WolfWraith]

I will, but it's really odd that AwalUKLimited are claiming ownership over the copied videos, but not the originals.

Which probably means once I file a claim, ownership of the originals might be questioned too .. It's not a problem, as I do own the copyright, but it's definitely a pain.

Well, YouTube should be able to see that you had already uploaded them first, this is partially why I also watermark my videos so I can at least dispute re-uploaded content if I come across it, since I'm a gaming channel I really only the copyrights to my commentary and not the gameplay footage by law. But re-uploading someone's videos is against YouTube's terms regardless of copyrights involved and most of the time people who steal videos are too lazy to edit anything on it to begin with and even if you cover it with a box or something it becomes inexplicable; covering an original water mark is easy but removing the original is impossible without cropping nearly 50% of the video. You might want to consider doing it yourself, in fact every creator who doesn't use face cam should be watermarking their videos and by watermark I mean actually placing diagonal plain white text with around 15-25% opacity somewhere on the video.

 

[J45]

Theres nothing you can do besides file a DMCA take down notice on the videos, but the same thing happened to me. Someone uploaded all my videos to their own channel and when I filed take down notices they simply filed a bogus counter claim saying they own all the copyrights.....they obviously didnt but they know the system well because after they submit a counter claim there is nothing you can do short of filing a lawsuit which to get started costs like $10,000 . So the stolen content will remain on their channel and nothing can be done unless they fold after your first take down notice.