Youtube: Copyrighted Content, 1 MIL Subscribers; How do they get away with it?

[Cognitive]

If you search 'motivational' on youtube, the first 6 results are from this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaKZDEMDdQc8t6GzFj1_TDw

They have 1 Million subscribers and they started out 2 years ago.

15.5 Million Views

7.1 Million Views

5.7 Million Views

3.8 Million Views
...and the list goes on...


How are they doing it? How are they getting away with so much copyrighted material?
Besides the speakers which are featured in these videos (the exact same videos are already uploaded on YT by the speakers themselves), lots of big Hollywood names, music stars (like Eminem) appear in these videos. Basically, nothing in these videos belongs to the owners of this channel.

I am not hating on them...their videos look great and I am sure they work a lot to put them together. Furthermore, I am quite happy to see that some blackhat methods still work. But I would like to learn how to avoid the copyrighted issues just like they do, and apply my own twist to this method.

Looking forward to hear your opinions.

 

[Cognitive]

I hate doing bumps

 

[nomansohail]

I would like to know this as well.

 

[BotMastah]

Perhaps they are doing speed alterations, using some sort of unique hash changing tool, or maybe they put enough of their own stuff in the videos to be considered fair use?

 

[MKSKS]

Interesting I would also like yo know this how has this survived.

 

[Thornus]

Yeah their videos looks very quality and copyrighted content is mixed with original content.
I dont know how youtube is strict on this topic but in this case it looks that not much.

 

[kpetar]

Simple. Monetized by copyright owner, not by the uploader. This is how it looks in creator studio https://i.imgur.com/Q9OVqBx.jpg

You can take videos from many video licensing companies and upload them to youtube but you can't monetize them, they will be monetized by copyright owner. You probably saw some funny videos on dozens channels - all money goes to one account in most cases to Jukin media.

 

[MKSKS]

Maybe they are just lucky enough to survive.

 

[Thornus]

Simple. Monetized by copyright owner, not by the uploader. This is how it looks in creator studio https://i.imgur.com/Q9OVqBx.jpg

You can take videos from many video licensing companies and upload them to youtube but you can't monetize them, they will be monetized by copyright owner. You probably saw some funny videos on dozens channels - all money goes to one account in most cases to Jukin media.

Yeah this is correct.I read about it in their video description.

 

[Thornus]

Under video,in description there is statment about copyright issue:
"AIR-USE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER * Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. 1)This video has no negative impact on the original works (It would actually be positive for them) 2)This video is also for teaching purposes. 3)It is not transformative in nature. 4)I only used bits and pieces of videos to get the point across where necessary."

 

[mistercd3]

Videos fall under fair use. But you may not notice this, that video was made up from multiple scenes on movies and every scenes only last for 5 to 15 second.
In order to make that video, you gonna spend hours to edit every scenes like mirror it, or slow it down a little bit to make it sync with voice. They may have permission to use inspiration speech on videos too.

 

[dzigi]

Even if you make these type of vids and get copyrighted if you are smart you can put ad links in the vid or get paid to promote links in the discription box.

 

[Cyberars]

they are inspired... as long as it falls into 'fair use" they can do that

FAIR-USE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER

* Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

1)This video has no negative impact on the original works (It would actually be positive for them)
2)This video is also for teaching purposes.
3)It is not transformative in nature.
4)I only used bits and pieces of videos to get the point across where necessary.

BE INSPIRED does not own the rights to these video clips. They have, in accordance with fair use, been repurposed with the intent of educating and inspiring others. However, if any content owners would like their images removed, please contact us by email at...

 

[korshen]

Simple. Monetized by copyright owner, not by the uploader. This is how it looks in creator studio https://i.imgur.com/Q9OVqBx.jpg

You can take videos from many video licensing companies and upload them to youtube but you can't monetize them, they will be monetized by copyright owner. You probably saw some funny videos on dozens channels - all money goes to one account in most cases to Jukin media.

Thank you. This explains a lot)

 

[Mr Cracker]

they are inspired... as long as it falls into 'fair use" they can do that

That's good and all, but how can you be 100% sure it does fall into that fair use category? it would be a lot of hard work and effort making good videos, only to get them pulled down later on due to copyrights.

 

[staypositive]

they disabled the monetaization
and look for donate only USD1?

 

[Cognitive]

In my opinion fair use applies only to news reporting (eg: you have something to report about Eminem, you can use a couple of seconds from one of his music clips). This channel has nothing in common with news reporting .

And, when watching their videos, adsense ads are loading. Does this mean they monetize them through adsense? Furthermore they have affiliate links (amazon) in the description of each video.

 

[Toal5760]

In my opinion fair use applies only to news reporting (eg: you have something to report about Eminem, you can use a couple of seconds from one of his music clips). This channel has nothing in common with news reporting .

And, when watching their videos, adsense ads are loading. Does this mean they monetize them through adsense? Furthermore they have affiliate links (amazon) in the description of each video.

If you want to live out of YT Adsense money it's easier to produce whitehat content. Disputing copyright claims is a pain in the ass. Even if you put commentary over it or make a parody of it. If somebody wants to fuck you over they will just claim your video. Then you got a nice legal situation for yourself. Of course using copyrighted content to promote CPA offers would be another thing.

 

[Cognitive]

If you want to live out of YT Adsense money it's easier to produce whitehat content. Disputing copyright claims is a pain in the ass. Even if you put commentary over it or make a parody of it. If somebody wants to fuck you over they will just claim your video. Then you got a nice legal situation for yourself. Of course using copyrighted content to promote CPA offers would be another thing.

That's exactly what I was thinking. You cannot get away with copyrighted content on YT. But these guys have done it big time. 1 MIL subscribers, millions of views on their videos, first 6 spots on the main page (if you search motiviational). How is this possible?

 

[TheTyper]

Simple answer: they are prepared, this is an achieved goal previously planned.

When we see this kind of things we think: "It's impossible! Hidden Magic going on"

The name of that magic is hours of work.

This is from a company probably with several employess or tercerized work, who knows.

Professional and planned and with a marketing purpose for sure.