I do not buy, nor use intentionally, any royalty free music. Unfortunately, some of the gaming companies whose videos I wanted to promote do. What that resulted in is waste of time, bandwidth, and by extension money. However a valuable lesson was learned.
Google/YouTube and copyright infringement clowns and trolls only care about copyrights when it means they can abuse you, the consumer. They on the other hand have no qualms about breaking laws to make money.
Case in point, AdRev for the 3rd Party. For all I know they might be owned by Google. At the end of the day it really does not matter who is behind it, fact is that Google/YouTube enables them to do what they do: copyright trolling.
AdRev for the 3rd Party basically uploaded huge amounts of royalty free clips as their own. So YouTube Content ID system will find third party match on most things you might upload that contain commonly used stuff. Thing is, they do not have actual legal right to do that.
So when you get your notice, whether you used royalty free sound effect or your humming got identified as one by extremely faulty YouTube's Content ID crap, you'd figure you can report a mistake and get it all sorted out, right? Wrong!
What happens is your complaint goes to the company whose content you were found to match. It is up to the plaintiff to judge you. The accuser gets to decide if you are guilty. So, obviously, they will say that they were correct. Then you get second appeal. You'd figure at this point you'd get to talk to person or something. Nope. Not a chance. It actually is not dealt with by human from YouTube at all. Your second appeal also goes to plaintiff/accuser/copyright troll and you have exactly two choices: bend over and take it or take copyright strike and suffer penalties (like not being able to upload anything at all for a month, because you are GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY!).
At the same time, music mega corporations which are unable to adjust to how much things have changed are suing some dumb poor trash for millions for piracy. If anything, those people should have been sued for stupidity, treated same as those stupid people hiring crack whores for barebacks and paying extra for it, because that is level of stupidity one has to have to not monitor their own children on internet connection they are responsible for.
I do not upload much, nor do I care enough about YouTube to do more than write few blog posts. I did follow protocol and filed formal complaint with AdRev for the 3rd party through their website couple of days ago, which they just ignored. They can afford to, I am not going to waste my money, just delete video containing 3 seconds of royalty free sound effect in question as I am also not going to let them run their ads at my expense.
Those that actually make a living from YouTube seem to be split into two camps. One which YouTube backs, which are some special type of partnership programs, and who get carte blanche to upload whatever copyright infringements they like, and second, which apparently get harassed plenty.
Main point seems to be royalty free music. YouTube's Contend ID system seems to concentrate on audio. So to avoid hassles, watch what you have as audio. Upload audio first, before wasting huge amounts of time and bandwidth, then if it checks out, upload actual video. Otherwise you are putting in your time and effort, to make somebody else money. Unless you are one of those stupid people who do things 'just for fun' and then wonder why they are broke all the time, in which case you'd just be too dumb for me to help.
Thanks to Vedmak.
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