If you received a notice from YouTube that your video may have content that is owned or licensed by The Orchard, a music and video distribution company, please read the outline below which should address questions you may have. First off, please know that The Orchard does not intend to sue you or seek to have your video removed from YouTube.
The notice informs you that YouTube’s content identification system has matched the audio (or a portion of the audio) used in your video to audio that belongs to a particular copyright owner or was licensed to a particular distributor (The Orchard, among others). YouTube’s Copyright Center explains their identification system as follows:
“The system is tuned to offer the best possible automated matches while eliminating most false positive matches.”
If you do nothing, all that will happen is that YouTube will add one or more links below your video. These links take the viewer to an online store where they can purchase the music used in the video. Please read the following as we hope it will help you to understand what the notification means, how it pertains to your video, and what you should do.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION
The YouTube Copyright Center is the place for definitive information regarding this process. The following offers some helpful tips in getting the most out of this resource.
If you have received a notice you will see a link next to your video as in the following image. To learn more about the status of your video and what you steps you can take, select the “View Copyright Info” link.
On selecting that link, you will see a screen like the one below…
We have found that the “Policy and Copyright Guidelines” link will often contain the answer to your question.
This is the YouTube Copyright Center.
“What happened to my video?” and “Frequently asked questions” – both found on the left-hand navigation bar – are particularly helpful links.
Selecting the “Frequently asked questions” link will take you to the following screen.
If the “frequently asked questions” section does not address your specific question or issue, you may choose to select “Learn more about the dispute process” from your initial notification, shown in…
Doing so will bring you to the following screen…
This screen discusses invalid and valid reasons to dispute a given claim. You may require more information. If so, select the “Take me to the YouTube Copyright Help Center” link as shown above. Doing so leads to…
or…
If you wish to dispute the claim, select the “Take me to the dispute form” link. This will bring you to the beginning of the process (as seen below) for disputing a claim.
Follow the remaining step(s) in the dispute process and The Orchard will address your claim accordingly. Please be as thorough as possible in doing so as this will assist in your claim being processed faster. If you do dispute a claim, we ask for your patience. Reviewing disputes is a time-consuming process for us. Your claim will be resolved. We hope you find this information helpful.
Sincerely,
THE ORCHARD TEAM
I’m finding it extremely annoying that my YouTube content keeps being matched against various companies copyright material.
Having said that thank you for this post and explaining your procedures. You are the first company who my content has incorrectly matched against that’s actually taken the time and trouble to document how you can assist me in getting the incorrect third party content match removed.
Thank you!
i uploaded a video to my utube and it was tagged for copyrighted material. i did use the material in question but thought i had made no violation because i posted it as a private video . . i thought that made it unavailable to anyone . ( i use you tube to upload videos , then download them as mp4′s ) the page said that it was still available for viewing world wide . i was shocked , i really thought no one could view it …. i took it down.. i did not credit the album i got it from because i was just using it to learn how to do keyframe audio editing i would like to thank the IODA for their kind and liberal response to my use of thier material and wish they had a contact edress (other than for press releases where i could explainwhat i did but also to see if i could have them watching my albums , they were so nice and reasonable , so sorry and thank you . steve clark
You Tube took my video off line for a performance mixed with my adult and non-profit students at a Social Event. Our studio holds a license with ASCAP, however, we did not think we were in violation as no funds were made in the creation of the dance. We do not wish to violate any laws and would like to know what to do next. You Tube has our video listed as still available for “public view” however, it is not, which is fine. To dispute the process, when questions need to be asked, seems a waste of time. Thanks for providing this information. The other 2 sites listed in reference to the violation were not as helpful.
Hi there, my name is Carlos, I am a Visionary, a Spiritual healer, writer and composer.
I thank you for your email regarding this subject (that took me to this web page).
I compose ALL my musics, they are 100% from my creation with more tham 30 videos 100% made by myself on my 2 youtube channels:
Carlos Manuel Oliveira
znatropoie
Fortunately I just use my creativity – nothing else.
It is a pain in the ass that: everytime I upload a video of my total creation, I always receive several messages regarding authors rights… I have received already hundreds of these.
But despite all, I want to thank you because you were the first one to send me this link (to this page of yours) that explains everything in detail reg. claims in youtube.
ps: sorry for my poor english
Cheers,
Carlos
I just came here after matching on a YouTube upload (which I certain did upload). I find your policy more than fair and refreshing to see from a content license holder. I was using the music solely to bring a little more interest to a video that is intended only for my friends to see and I am more than happy to have a way to do that but at the same time satisfy your commercial interests.
In any case, I felt like commenting just to let you know that this type of policy is greatly appreciated.