Rather than taking other's 'not so good work' as you put it, and making it better. Why don't you CREATE your own work. Its called being creative. Taking someone elses work is not creativity, its literally stealing from them. Not saying you shouldn't do whatever you want, but creating your own idea, and making it better will earn you a rightful monetisation and more subs more views as well. Do you get what I mean?
Whoever you are taking from right now, whether you like it or not Will find you, will report your videos, and your channel will be terminated. Maybe not now but someday.
What's the point then? Thats why youtube wants everyone who wants to earn money to CREATE their own work, their own idea. D
Even for anyone wanting to go 'trending topics' route, you can always get an idea somewhere but create your own style, your own work, not copy or steal from someone else cause all it does it earn you a ban sometime or never able to monetise such content which is a gigantic waste of time!
I understand your sentiment and generally I would agree that encouraging people to create their own content is important, but there IS a need for what I am doing...maybe not exactly in this way but what I'm doing is essentially what has been going on since the dawn of mankind. No one person has all the skills and know-how to do everything on their own. Someone will plant the seeds, another will water it, and another may harvest it, another will convert it into many different uses, and lastly another may dispose of it or recycle it. I'm not really the kind of person to just create my own video content. My skill and talent is taking raw materials and refining it. That's what I'm good at. I do this in everything in life. I see what others have done, I improve upon it or "add" to it. Where it gets confusing and blurry is "who should get credit?"
If an actor performs his/her duty in a movie well by delivering all the lines and then some, but it was screenplay writer that put the words in the mouth of the actor, but then it was the director who guided the actors/movie, in the end, who gets credit for creating the movie? In most youtube videos out there, you'll see people taking content and clips they didn't create themselves but they add commentary, analysis, and some minor special effects, sounds, editing, etc but it seems they get all the praise for making such great videos. I don't know how great their videos would be if you took away all the videos in their videos they basically just used (with or without permission) from the original source. In my case, the only issue people should have with it is that I didn't ask for permission to use their content, nor as the content creator copyrighted their content. They didn't neither say yes or no to me using their content. If it's there to be used and it's not copyrighted, I will use it until it becomes copyrighted or I get told to take it down. I do agree that this most likely won't get monetized OR if it does, last that long....if it keeps getting bigger, I'm sure it will run into some copyright issue down the line, but enough people in this world tell you "no", so why be the first person to tell yourself "no"? There are also a lot of content you ARE ALLOWED to use from other content creators because they have put it under a "creative commons" license. There are a lot of ways to make videos from creative commons sources and stitch together your own video like a TOP TEN (something) and get full credit for the video you make using these creative commons videos. It's not that there is no such thing as being allowed to use other creators content. A lot of creators out there make content to be shared and used by others with no copyright intended purposes. This idea that we are just "ripping" or "stealing" other people's content is just overblown. If you think about it, humanity itself is built upon and based on plagiarism (building off of another's work, or using them as stepping stones, or something you are all using that is not your own original creation, therefore you are ripping it off). Here's a little joke: There’s a scientist and God. And the scientist challenges God to a contest of who can make the better human being. God tells him that he’s on, at which time the scientist, in great delight, bends over to pick up some dirt to make his human being. Then God says, ‘No, …get your own dirt.’
We can create, yes, but nothing we create is completely original. The shady line is "how much of it did I alter or edit enough for it to be considered my own content"....to me, that's just fancy wording dancing around the issue. I really like talking about these kinds of things though....it's great to discuss and wish there was a "think group" that existed for me to share ideas and talk about some of these things.....ideas change the world, imagination is more important than knowledge - einstein.
