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Read the whole thread:\u00a0Help! I got a falsely accused Copyright Strike! – Google Product Forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyone can make a copyright claim against others on Youtube, and start earning ad revenue off of your videos. This has turned into a cottage industry for scammers. If you contest their claims, they come right back and make bogus claims on other videos.<\/p>\n

The entire Youtube copyright mechanism is broken.<\/p>\n

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I once had two (legitimate) music publishing companies claim copyright, at the same time, on a performance of “Taps” used in my video. Obviously, two companies could not both own the copyright at the same time!<\/p>\n

As documented in the video credits and the video description, the recording used was from the\u00a0US Army, featuring a US Army trumpet player, based on their written notification that\u00a0this performance was in the public domain and could be used for any purpose. “Taps” is not copyrighted – it was written during the U.S. Civil War long before music could be copyright and so long ago that the copyright would have expired.<\/p>\n

I contested both and they dropped\u00a0their claims.<\/p>\n

Then a German publishing company made a similar claim on a video that did even have any musicexcept for some Civil War era drum cadences recorded live at an event by me. All of the drum cadences pre-dated music copyrights!<\/p>\n

Today, I have another company claiming copyright on classical music I used in a very old video – except I paid a fee and licensed the performance that I used and have rights to use it in the video. But some other random company is now collecting ad revenue for music they do not own – unless I contest it.<\/p>\n

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