Youtube will uphold copyright…if you demand it

The following video is by a young artist who had her work stolen from her Youtube channel. At roughly the 5 minute and 8 minute marks, she provides incredibly valuable information about what you can do to protect your work. More importantly, she says that after she assembled her proofs – screenshots etc – and contacted Youtube about the copyright theft…they took the offending video DOWN. No ifs, no buts.

I’m not sure I’ll ever consider myself to be an ‘artist’, but I do value the digital art that I create, and I have been worried about posting my creations online for fear that they would be sucked up to feed some voracious AI. Well, this video shows that it can happen, but it also shows that we have legal options open to us.

I consider this video to be one of the most valuable learning tools I’ve ever come across. I hope you find it valuable too.

cheers,
Meeks