How To Avoid Copyright Claims on YouTube Shorts

copyright claims suck but how bad are they for your channel and what do you need to do if you get one I've received dozens of questions about copyright in the last few months like this and this and all of these and I thought hey maybe I should make a video about this luckily all of these questions and more can be solved by understanding the basics of copyright law in the US when you create something music videos books Etc it is technically copyrighted as soon as it's in physical form but you can't easily enforce that copyright without registering it with the government so creators either on their own or with help from lawyers register their copyright with the US copyright office this is where YouTube comes in YouTube has a database of audio and visual content that they check every video against to see if it uses someone else's content if it does you get a copyright claim or strike but how do they decide which one you'll get when video uses copyrighted content without the content the risk of copyright claims drops significantly two utilize royalty-free or licensed music if you wish to use music that you didn't create there are many platforms like YouTube audio library epidemic sound premium beat and my favorite option artlist.io that offer royaltyfree or licensed music for creators when using such platforms always follow the licensing guidelines some tracks might be free to use but require you to credit the artist three seek permission if you want to use copyrighted material always seek written permission from the copyright owner this could be for music video clips photographs or any other copyrighted content having written permission can help you if the copyright owner ever decides to file a claim or strike four fair use consideration in some situations using copyrighted content can be considered fair use