For more info, check out this article about Fair Use: support.google.com/youtube/answer/6396261

Don't let this distract you from the fact that companies can still false strike you

Understanding Quantum Physics is more easier than understanding Fair Use

Honestly the "Fair Use" laws and massive corporate lawyers have killed my creative spirit literally it's hard to do anything without getting demonetized.

“Fair use protects you, but even if you do all these things, fair use probably doesn’t protect you”

"even if you use fair use content, you're not protected" thank you.

The name of this video should have been "We will not take any responsibility whatsoever."

There are so many creators, like Thunderfoot, that constantly use copyrighted material and long clips in their videos, and claim fair use, but never have to take them down. I also see many people performing full covers of copyrighted music without their videos being taken down. I don't understand how this happens when it's so easy for others to get copyright strikes.

I have no idea why KZfaq hasn't incorporated a revenue sharing system for copyrighted material based off of an algorithm that pays a certain percentage of a monetized video to the copyright holder based on how much was used! That would be a win-win for everyone!!!!

Thanks for letting us know that there's nothing fair about fair use.

Users: Can you please explain fair use KZfaq: Go to court

Understanding algebra and calculus is much more easier than understanding fair use

"KZfaq doesn't decide what's fair use - only a judge can do that." Ok...so then why would youtube take down a video without an order from a judge?

This is very informative. One thing though, When people complain that their entire video got claimed for a two second copyright protected clip, they aren’t necessarily suggesting that two seconds is short enough to be considered fair use. They are saying that it’s not fair that the entirety of the ad revenue for the video now goes to someone that only owns two seconds of it. Your platform desperately requires revenue share.

If only KZfaq didn’t use automated bots to always side with the copyright owners

Im not even going to watch the video after I read the comments. These kind of videos from KZfaq are the true reason they disabled dislikes. It’s a shame how less they care about their creators. People put their love, life and soul into their channels just to get them false striked and possibly deleted.

this doesn't explain why copyright holders are the ones who hold all the power regarding disputes. youtube's default "we dont decide fair use" statement is a convenient cop-out that absolves them of any responsibility to address a rampant issue of copyright abuse from big companies like UMG that's plagued the site for years.

Of course my comment was deleted....

How not to explain anything in 5 minutes.

Me: Can I use others videos? KZfaq: *Yesn't*

i wanna go back to the old days of KZfaq :(

- Why are you here ? - I killed my wife because she cheated on me, and you ? - I used a 10 seconds footage and i lost on court about fair use.

In short "Fair Use" is of no use

Sooo, basically, damned if you do, damned if you don't? Got it.

So basically the “fair use” is *nonsense!*

ok but like not all of us has thousands of dollars to dump on a pointless court case

In other words, don't even think about being a small creator unless your content is just going to be you talking to the camera, or graphs, charts, and images you made.

So in other words, it is harder than sh*t. KZfaqrs make it look so easy, and the American manner is to always tell you "oh you can also do it" because apparently most people live in a fantasy bubble; and that "encouragement" at the end only serves to your downfall, because it takes a lot of a heck of work to learn by trial and error, tripping and falling, than anybody would ever let you see. They tell you "you can do it" as if it was the same easy to do it as to not do it. Next time they tell you "nobody said it would be easy" reply right away "yes you did! by saying 'you can do it'", because they say it to make it sound easy. People (acquaintances, friends) should only tell it as it is, with both your chances to succeed and to fail, and only at the end give you encouragement to do anything you want to do.

Just a question, if I dressed up as the Joker and do one of my videos normally, is this fair use?

True story: Paramount PR invited me to a screening of one of their Mission Impossible movies for review. I made a video talking about my thoughts on the movie and ranking the Mission Impossible movies using some of their trailers video edited over me talking and criticizing the movies. Years later Paramount claimed the video - I disputed through YT and said it should fall under fair use but Paramount responded with a manual rejection. I ended up just deleting the video since the views weren't so high but it's annoying when a company invites you to something for review - you make a review video and then they basically kill your video (even after praising the movie).

It seems impossible to find real world examples of KZfaq videos that are and are not fair use. Even searching the US government's website for past court cases about fair use, there's only a tiny number of cases involving this. We need more examples to better defend our works

It really is time that this was standardised. How are we as creators supposed to do our work if we constantly get claims and strikes? I teach guitar. How am I supposed to teach a song that I'm not allowed to play? Even if I don't use the original video or audio and simply perform the piece myself, I still get copyright claims. This appears to be getting worse of late. Perhaps an Organisation the size of KZfaq could be doing more to protect creators rather than passing the buck? Frustrating to say the least.

When are you gonna respect this policy?

after watching this video, I got scared, it turns out that my video content uses a lot of other people's rights :(

KZfaq: Go to court. Me: My dog stepped on a bee.

KZfaq should hire Judges for their Fair Use Algorithm.

I have to admit that KZfaq makes it too easy to strike a channel, and zero consequences for a false claim lends itself to abuse.

Thanks for trying to clear it up. Atleast now I know that no one knows.

I’m so tired of watching KZfaqrs try to comment on videos, but can’t because it has some background music. They always have to muted the video because of “fair use”, making the commenting impossible.

And yet all those godzilla stop motion youtubers manage to get soundtracks into their videos, yet when I try, I CANT?!

youtube: can not determine whether or not something is fair use or not. Us: so why do you block our content anyway?

Yet UMG are literally just claiming any video with random timestamps. They claimed a stream I had as a vod with no music within it and the time stamp was when I was at the toilet and it was silent!!!!!!! Broken system

Y’all don’t watch this video it literally just tells you that KZfaq doesn’t have control over fair use and they won’t put in the effort to correct a bad claim. You literally just have to trial and error everything and hope for the best

me: copyright claiming this video for being a small shareholder of KZfaq... KZfaq: "Change of plans"

How are music analysis channels even supposed to work then? Do you just talk about what you are referring to instead of playing at least a 5 seconds clip of it? That makes the video lose a lot of educational value, if not all of it. In the entire history of music teaching, teachers have always shown examples of everything they are explaining... this is still nonsense imo.

can you talk about the abuse of the copyright claim feature too? There are people out there claiming content that does not belong to them and do it constantly.

So why is TikTok allowed to use copyrighted material? They're not even from the US.

*Resume about this video be like* * KZfaq: It's not my problem

Twice I pulled music from the KZfaq Audio library and it was flagged as copyrighted. The second time, I went through the dispute process and had to wait 30 days for the video to be able to be monetized, even though it was KZfaq's already-approved music.

Imagine this getting copyrighted

I have to say I do appreciate the extra requirements KZfaq has added for those trying to claim videos. Especially letting us know what the specific problem is when there is one. No one likes seeing that yellow $ or getting that claim email. Personally, I've found that "transformative" is the most important for video. And I never ever use any copyrighted music. There's so much copyright free and creative commons 0 music out there! I look forward to KZfaq putting in place even more creator-friendly strategies regarding Fair Use. The more transparency we get, the more creative we can be! It's starting to feel much less adversarial with, and again, it's much appreciated! Now, if I can just figure out how to get videos suggested 😉. Cheers

KZfaq’s copyright system isn’t broken, the copyright law is.

So basically, for my $20 a month... in 1000 years I could afford a lawyer to dispute some BS... great.

What’s the point on doing fair use if KZfaq will determinate you can’t monetize because reused content

99% of fair use claims never go to court and you will win. These companies don't have the time to deal with the YTs in court each day.

And here we are 4 years later and nothing has change.

This made me even more confused and messed up my whole head. I don't think I'll understand it properly in my lifetime....

The degree Google wants to be free of any potential responsibility is stunning

I love it when I have a 10 minute character study, I use a single quote, and my video is immediately flagged.

Ok so I used audio that was CROPPED AND SPED UP to avoid copyright in one of my videos. Unfortunately the video got a copyright strike. This makes no sense.

Here's a massive problem with KZfaq's "fair use" approach, however. 02:41 "Companies are claiming just a few seconds of a video. How is that not abuse?" Ignoring the "lol just use 3 seconds of audio and it's fine" nonsense people try to pull - copyrighted material for only a few seconds of a video DOES NOT at any point in licensing of copyrighted material result in ALL OF THE EARNINGS of that video being taken. There's so many elements of copyright-able work in a single video, that just copyright claim of the composition or recording of a song should NEVER take the entire revenue of a video. Period. This is a lazy, stealing method of not providing a tool for creators to license out these chunks of material. Sure, not every publisher will allow such licensing - but many do, KZfaq just isn't facilitating that.

Fair Use is a legal minefield. Just avoid all material that isn’t copyright free. Been there done that

2:05 KZfaq ads: I'm going to do that

Pov: you made a 10 year long video only to get copyright for a 5 second intro ☠️☠️

KZfaq is pandering so heavily to the corporations in this video. "Only courts have the ability to decide" is KZfaq saying "We won't treat it as fair use until the courts decide". Look at how they threaten creators by saying "Even a few seconds may not be deemed fair use". This is how they convince you that removing content automatically without any legal action being taken by the corporation is reasonable. How can you have a fair use doctrine when every video, even those that fall under fair use, is swiftly removed from the platform when even a few seconds of material is caught by its copyright checking robots? This is "guilty until proven innocent", not "innocent until proven guilty", and it is truly unjust.

Okay, KZfaq... explain this: I received a copyright claim because I played a piece of copyrighted music even though it should clearly fall under Fair Use. 1. I played a piece of music the original artist submitted to me himself, for the sole purpose of playing it on a live stream and giving him feedback on the production. 2. The content was educational in nature and the original artist benefits from it by learning something. 3. His piece of music wasn't the only piece played and critiqued, there were many more over the course of the stream, meaning the sole purpose of the stream was NOT to spread copyrighted material. 4. The claimant and the artist being represented are based in the US, so US Fair Use laws apply and thus the above-named things should be taken into account. I, of course, disputed the claim since this should be considered Fair Use, the dispute was rejected. I then muted the audio of that song in particular, because live streams and donations are a big part of my channel and I can't risk losing those. However, the fact that the claimant rejected my Fair Use dispute even though it's a clear cut case of Fair Use is what is a problem to begin with and this all ties back to the horrible system KZfaq uses where claimants get to decide if my dispute is right or wrong. So this video specifically says, that only a judge can decide if something is Fair Use or not. So why then is it, when I file a dispute because I believe the claim is indeed Fair Use, that the claimant gets to decide over that and not a judge as you say? There is no court case until it reaches the point where the damage to my channel is already done! The claimant decides if my dispute is correct or false... If they reject it, I can appeal that decision, however with the risk of putting a copyright strike on my channel, limiting my options for live streaming and receiving donations, which are the two things that keep my channel going. So, not a viable option to risk that. Only if my appeal is rejected again it'll become a court case, but by that time, my channel will already have a strike on it limiting my channel severely. So we can safely say, this is not a viable option for me to take. KZfaq keeps specifically stating in this video they can't decide if something is Fair Use or not and that only a judge can, then why is that not happening when I dispute a claim based on Fair Use? You are literally proven yourself wrong with this exact statement in the video. When you drag somebody into court, that is a fight between 2 parties and the third party, the judge, is the one to make an unbiased judgment. You are not going to let the defendant or accuser decide on the result of the court case right? So when I receive a copyright claim, why is there no third party to look over these? Why is the claimant the one to decide if I'm right or wrong? That is like having a court case and letting the accuser decide if the defender's arguments are false or correct. KZfaq should have a team of copyright specialists looking into every single copyright case as a third party overlooking the process to make sure things go the way they should. And then I haven't even talked about the copyright claims that I constantly receive when I'm making music on KZfaq, claims on videos where the video itself already disproves the claim itself and therefore should never be appearing on my channel in the first place. The fact that I receive claim after claim on content which is clearly my own is a big sign something is horribly broken when it comes to copyright on KZfaq. So, instead of ignoring all my tweets, comments, emails and other forms of contact I tried, maybe it would be wise to at least come back to me with an explanation like you would expect in the case of a KZfaq "partnership". We creators signed an agreement to be in a partnership with KZfaq, yet we creators completely lack the amount of transparency and communication you would expect from a true partnership. So, is it really a partnership or does KZfaq simply call it that when it actually isn't? As a creator who has spend a lot of time on this platform since day one, I can sadly say that I'm reaching a point where IF a new platform equivalent to KZfaq shows up, I would not hesitate one bit to jump ship. And as a creator who has put thousands of hours into his channel, that is a very hard choice to make. However, we've reached a point where things are so broken, KZfaq is moving into a direction that is favoring big corporations over the independent creators who have been the reason of the success of KZfaq, and I absolutely don't like that. If during this entire wall of text I have understood something wrong, then please KZfaq respond and explain it to me instead of ignoring me making matters a lot worse. I signed the partnership agreement years ago, but until this date, I have never received any help when it comes to issues with my channel, nor has KZfaq ever responded to any of my questions I asked them... Now THAT is a great partnership... not!

What I love so much is that monetary "creators" work around these (uhhh) rules by adding copywritten music clips to copywritten video clips to make entirely new videos. Apparently it's working...

you tube's default "we dont decide fair use" statement.... "even though we do it daily with out regard for any of the information we supplied in this video" is quite comical.

I always wondered how reaction YT channels do it.

The problem isnt that we/creators dont know what fair use it. The problem is that the ORIGINAL COPYRIGHT HOLDERS DON'T HONOR THE FAIR USE!

Thanks for letting us know

KZfaq when they heard the 2 seconds of a music: TAKE IT DOWN TAKE IT DOWN

Protect channels getting false claims before removing yourself from the "fair-use" argument.

KZfaq: Copyright Policy Also KZfaq: Now introducing KZfaq Music and KZfaq TV!

Understanding fair use is harder than quantum physics. -Albert Einstein

Considering a friend followed fair use, still got their channel terminated, you refuse to help, and now they're depressed and had to be talked down from self harm.....no I don't think you even follow your own rules.

4:05 Automated systems like content ID shouldn't be able to automatically demonetise someone's video. It should be able to notify potential copyright claimants, but that's it. Since fair use is in your own words "subjective case-by-case decision", you CANNOT use a guilty until proven innocent' approach. That is objectively wrong.

This is just a nice way of explaining how great corporations are basically taking over youtube. Most of us, contents creators, know that companies have been striking us mercilessly for using a few seconds of their material in what would clearly classify as Fair Use. Those false strikes are being designed to actually take control away from contents creators.

Thanks for reminding us how wacky the copyright system is, KZfaq. *Ah yes,* this truly explains why DBZ fan art is prohibited to post on youtube.

This was very helpful! I had clip of mine taken only 4 seconds of it, but now I see I do have some leverage. Thank you!

Here’s my rules about copyright: If someone uses my content without credit in the description, they will get a copyright strike. If someone uses my content with credit in the description. They will not get a copyright strike.

Automated systems like content ID can't account for fair use, but they can automatically accuse you of being guilty by design.

There is no "court" on youtube. The copyright holder is the judge, jury and executioner. If they detect their copyright in your footage, THEY get to decide what happens. Its completely unfair.

KZfaq: we do not decide what is fair use, the judge does Also youtube: fair use is that there is no fair use

I am glad that the content ID system is getting improved. I get tired of all the false claims. I even had a claim on my voice, yes me talking.

So do you mean to say that actual people on KZfaq, average people have been taken to court and lost their hard earned possessions because a multi national company feels aggrieved?

LoL this reminds me of when pewdiepie wanted to add his OWN song to a video and the youtube algorithm told him sorry, this is copyrighted owned by (don't remember lol), he wrote to youtube but they just answered that he can't prove that it's his music, ultimately after a couple of months he took care of it but this just proves that YT is broken.

I want to know that If I download a video from someones Instagram story and upload it on KZfaq before anyone uploads it, will it marked as reuse content?

I love how KZfaq pretends now that original content is what made it successful. MOST of the time that I am on KZfaq, I am looking for tribute videos of copyrighted work.

Please tell me . What is misleading title ..?

Understanding the speech of our imported prime minister Shehbaz shareef is more easier than understanding Fair Use. 😁

Bro spent 5 minutes just to tell us "you can't use any copyrighted content no matter what"

"The main focus of your video is copyrighted material" So what happens to movie reviews/commentaries?

I'm already a fair use expert. They're just making fair use unfair to use

It’s so complicated, just not even worth it when you think about it. It’s just a waste.

The rules of fair use seem to be at the whims of some esoteric algorithms decision. I've had music that claimed to be royalty free get flagged one once video while the same music was considered fine on another.

What is fair use? H3H3 vs Matt Hoss. Your best example on the platform.

So why are you allowing people to report videos, then they get to decide if it’s a good claim or not.

even if you review the content make a meme out of it you shall get a warning- Bruh

When I’m using music in my videos, I normally just stick to copyright free music, but there have been songs that I’ve been using like a “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” remix made by Tallcat-Man I had been using throughout October, but in November, I was getting claimed for it, i’m not sure if they were falsely copyright claiming me though, it’s a remix of the original song, which means the content has been significantly transformed, so it doesn’t make sense that I still got claimed :/