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Personal Finance Expert) The U.S. Copyright Act says that copyright protection is available for “original works of
authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed,
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YouTube directly or with the aid of a machine or device.”
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Very simply put, whoever creates the work (i.e., music, video, photo) owns the work.
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Copyright protection is automatic. That person has the authority to use, reproduce or
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There’s an exception to this called the “fair use” exception. The problem, however, is
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that fair use is a gray area--it’s hard to know whether something will be considered fair
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Channel use or not. The only way to get a definitive answer is in court (and that’s probably not
where you want to be). Judges use a four-part test to determine whether it was fair
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The most straightforward way to avoid facing any copyright issues is to only use your
own original content (that means only content that you have filmed and created
yourself) or content that you have explicit permission to use.

Pretty straight-forward, right?

What about if you want to use some stock footage (like video footage or music)? If
that’s the case, you want to ensure that you have permission to use it. One of the
easiest ways to do this is to use only the pre-approved places listed in Module 7 for
finding music and stock footage. Oftentimes this means paying a subscription, which
may seem excessive, but you’re paying for the comfort of knowing that you have
permission to use that copyrighted material.

The basic rule is that:

Your content must be original and yours; or

If it’s not your original content, you must have permission to use it.

Simply stating on your video that you don’t own the rights to the video or the music on
the video is not enough.

On YouTube’s website, this is what they say about “ the first rule of copyright ”.

What happens if you’re on the other side of the equation? If you notice that someone
on YouTube is actually using your copyrighted material YouTube outlines the steps you
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can take here .

Within your YouTube studio, you can also check if someone has re-used any of your
videos by clicking the button that says “Copyright”.

To conclude, the golden rule is in order to play it safe, I recommend only using your
own original content or content that you have explicit permission to use. As always, this
is informational only. It isn’t legal advice and I’m not your lawyer :)

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