Monetization on Copyrighted Content

[cpderic]

Hey guys,
First of all, I am a responsible YouTuber and don't monetize anything that I don't have the copyright for.

However, I have made a couple videos using copyrighted music, which were detected and monetized by the content owners. Recently, I noticed that I was credited some revenue for those videos. I haven't seen any official announcements from YouTube, but I was wondering if maybe they changed the policies so the video creators still receive partial revenue? I was wondering if anyone might know why this is happening.

To clarify: Monetization is disabled for me on these videos. In fact, there isn't even an option to enable monetization for them. However, the copyrighted music in them was detected, therefore ads are showing on these videos, and the revenue is going to the copyright holders. I recently saw revenue for these videos appearing in my analytics and am trying to figure out why.

Thanks for any help!

 

[Kleineganz]

That's an interesting question. I went back and checked on a couple of my "matched 3rd party content" videos that I have up (where the copyright holders are earning revenue from the ads placed on my videos) and I also have gotten some revenue (not much ... like $0.06 or something). Maybe they are now doing revenue sharing between the YouTuber and the copyright holder?

 

[cpderic]

Update: The earnings that suddenly appeared on those videos are gone now. It must have just been a bug within YouTube that has now been fixed.