When even YouTube admits that its ContentID created a big problem

  • 2022-03-03 08:00:00
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation
Being a content creator today is becoming an increasingly sensitive issue. A YouTube user with 20,000 subscribers on his channel, and around 2,000 on Twitch, faced a copyright violation when his video was uploaded to Google's platform: a few minutes' test to see how his new microphone worked. ContentID, YouTube's infringement management platform, intervened without blowback and associated the monetization track with another figure.