Terminology Misuse

[UKHypnotist]

I keep seeing forum members saying things like the following...

"I got copyrighted" -- A person cannot be copyrighted; only a creative work can be copyrighted.

"The video I posted got copyrighted" -- Yes you have copyright of creation on a video you create, but if you have unlicensed copyrighted material as a part of that video, it is now a "derivative work"; so now you have a copyright claim against that video.

"I got a copyright, or I got a copyright strike" when what has really happened is a Content ID, not a copyright strike.

Please folks, let's learn to use the legal terminology correctly!

Most creators on YouTube do not get copyright strikes unless they are blatantly pirating major media or audio of major labels. They get copyright claims under YouTube's Content ID system.

When you do get a copyright strike, that is a more serious matter, and requires an official email from YouTube; they seem to have ceased sending out Content ID notices as they have become so frequent.

So when you find a "Matched Third Party Content" in your video manager, please when you post to this forum, say you have a Copyright Claim and not a Copyright Strike as they are two different things! If you get a Copyright Strike Notice in your email, then say you have gotten a legal notice of Copyright Strike.

In short, "to be copyrighted", is something which cannot happen to a person, and most of us will never file a formal copyright on our works, though perhaps we should?

 

[XXLRay]

Of course you are right but people like the ones you mention usually don't even have a clue that something like copyright exists. So how can you expect them to use the legal terms correctly?
Anybody who is doing YouTube seriously should learn them though.

 

[UKHypnotist]

Of course you are right but people like the ones you mention usually don't even have a clue that something like copyright exists. So how can you expect them to use the legal terms correctly?
Anybody who is doing YouTube seriously should learn them though.

Hi Ray, good to see you again!

The only reason I can see that such people wouldn't have a clue that copyright exists, is that they have failed to read even the Basic YouTube Terms of Service; let alone read the Terms of the YouTube Partner Programme, which they are required to read before signing!

So perhaps what I should do here is suggest that people go and take the lessons in YouTube's Copyright School before even posting their first video to YouTube?

 

[Tarmack]

My pet peeve is "non copyrighted music". There's essentially no such thing. Unless we're talking about a reproduced recording of something from the 1800s, everything since is copyrighted.

What they mean, is licenced with an open use licence like Creative Commons or some other open permission to use.

The other one is when people use Royalty Free to mean open use licences. No, royalty free doesn't mean free. It means you don't have to pay royalties to use it. You will always still pay a one time fee to use it...