If you get a copyright strike, it means that a copyright owner submitted a complete and valid legal takedown request for using their copyright-protected content. When we get this type of formal notification, we take down your video to comply with copyright law. A video can only have one copyright strike at a time.
Copyright Strikes adversely affect your entire YouTube channel. If proven valid, your video will likely be taken down. If you receive a Copyright Strike, you are no longer eligible to monetize your videos or live stream from your account until the strike expires.
Each strike you received will not expire until 90 days from the time it was issued. This means that receiving 3 strikes in any 90-day period, regardless of whether or not you take the content down right away, or leave it up for several days, will still result in your account being permanently removed.
If you receive a second strike before the first one expires, your account will remain out of good standing for another 90 days. If you receive a third strike before the first two expire, your account will be terminated, and all uploaded videos will be removed.
So in short, when you get a copyright claim, your video will usually be demonetized – you won't be able to monetize with a copyright claim. Make sure you don't get a copyright claim by obtaining legal permission to use copyrighted material.
A video can only have one copyright strike at a time. Keep in mind that videos can be removed from the site for reasons other than copyright. Also, Content ID claims don't result in a strike.
If you submitted a copyright removal request in error, you can retract it. Retracting a copyright removal request will: Clear the copyright strike from the uploader's channel, unless other content is contributing to the strike. Restore the uploader's content to YouTube, unless the uploader deleted the content.
In the Restrictions column, hover over Copyright. Click SEE DETAILS. Under the Content identified in this video section, find the relevant claim and click Actions. Trim out segment, Replace song, or Mute song.
If any copyright owner finds their copyright-protected content on YouTube without their authorization, they can submit a copyright removal request, also known as a "takedown notice" or simply a "takedown". It is a legal request to remove content from YouTube due to alleged copyright infringement. Learn more below.
You can submit as many videos as you want for claim removal, but there is a limit of removing up to 5 copyright claims per video. If you need to remove more claims, you should add your YouTube channel to our whitelist for a more seamless experience.
Only use content that you've created yourself
Another way to avoid copyright infringement and strikes is to only use your own content on YouTube. If you only use music and videos that you've created yourself, you won't have to worry about copyright claims as you'll be the copyright owner.
After the 7-day period is over, when YouTube removes the video, the uploader's channel will get a copyright strike. Removing the video at that point will not resolve the strike. Strikes expire after 90 days, but their video won't be reinstated after the strike expires.
As a general rule, for works created after January 1, 1978, copyright protection lasts for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years.
To keep it simple: copyright claim = good, whereas copyright strike = bad. So although they may sound the same, make sure to know the difference between a copyright claim and a copyright strike!
However, if a YouTube user accumulates three copyright strikes within those 90 days, YouTube terminates that user's YouTube channel, including any associated channels that the user have, removes all of their videos from that user's YouTube channel, and prohibits that user from creating another YouTube channel.
If copyright-protected work is published to YouTube without authorization from the copyright owner, the copyright owner can submit a copyright removal request, also known as a "takedown notice" or simply a "takedown". It is a legal request to remove content from YouTube due to alleged copyright infringement.
Assume just because you only use a few seconds of any clip that it will “be ok.” You cannot use any copyrighted material, no matter the length, without permission. Think that if you give credit to the artist, you can use their copyrighted material. Again, unless you get specific permission, you cannot use it.
If you receive a claim, you can still monetize your other videos. Claims won't lead to the termination of your channel. However, for repeat offenders, 50 copyright claims lead to 1 copyright strike.
3 strikes in the same 90-day period results in your channel being permanently removed from YouTube. Each strike will not expire until 90 days from the time it was issued.
Your channel doesn't have to be monetized in order to receive copyright claims and copyright strikes. Even if you have zero subscribers, zero views and it's your very first video, if you have used copyrighted content belongs to another creator, you could get a claim or a strike.
See who claimed your video
Select a video with a copyright restriction and tap on the restriction. In the bottom panel, tap REVIEW ISSUES. Tap the relevant claim to see who the content owner is.
Most copyright claims on YouTube are caused by using copyrighted music or video, and they're easy to avoid.