Taking someone else’s content, making minimal changes, and calling it your own original work would be a violation of this guideline. This policy applies even if you have permission from the original creator. Reused content is separate from YouTube’s Copyright enforcement, which means it’s not based on copyright, permission, or fair use. This guideline means sometimes, you may not get claims against your content, but your channel may still violate our reused content guidelines.
More examples of what’s not allowed to monetize (this list is not exhaustive):
- Clips of moments from your favorite show edited together with little or no narrative
- Short videos you compiled from other social media websites
- Collections of songs from different artists (even if you have their permission)
- Content uploaded many times by other creators
- Promotion of other people’s content (even if you have permission)"