I Got a YouTube COPYRIGHT STRIKE for Fair Use!!!

Anyone who DMs threats like "better buckle up" simply can't be taken seriously. 🤦🏿‍♂️

I received a strike for using copyright music on a video. Except, I was the music artist, wrote and performed, recorded, mixed and mastered the song. My music distributor made the claim against YT without actually noticing that it was my channel, my video, and yes, my song - LOL. It was resolved... of course. At least I know my music distributor is looking out for me as a content creator. :)

"protect yourself using a service like storyblocks..." Bru, I was striked once by some Chinese company because of a clip I downloaded from Envato, being myself a payer subscriber. I was also got in a copyright claim because of a music track I downloaded from Soundstripe. Funnily enough, the claimer had actually bootlegged the track I was using and claimed I had infringed his copyright. There are a lot of arseholes out there trying to make money from your content, even if you're licensed to use it.

The problem is that most people wont bother to do any of the 4 things. They shout "Fair Use!" and steal to their hearts content. As a professional photographer this has been happening to us for ever. The laws really stand up for the people stealing and you have to hire an expensive attorney to win a claim as a creator who has been stole from. Buy Storyblocks (or something similar) and shoot your own content.

Thank you for not letting it go! Thank you for standing up!

Your videos are beautiful! Also, this was educational.. I needed this!!

Now. Who’s actually messing with the wrong guy? 😏

This was an excellent topic to cover and appreciate you doing this even if it doesn't align with your "channel theme". Great attitude, brother. Stay Possessed 💪🏾

In the U.S. a person who files a false copyright claim can be liable for all damages and legal fees. If more people realized this, they'd stop filing copyright claims flippantly.

you KNOW Armando when he posted this vid was like, “Mic drop... B!tCh” LOL

Great video. I, too, won a strike on YouTube. I used some music that I bought, royalty free in one of my videos. Some WWE type website claimed copyrights to the music. I told YT that the music in question could not be found anywhere on the claimant's website or their resources. YT agreed and released my video. So, yes, fight for your rights, baby.

As someone who recently used a piece of your work in my Kondor Blue A7SIII Cage video, I'm thankful that you didn't go after me for a strike. Love your work hermano. Keep crushing it 😊

I've seen this happen too many times. Good to see you stand up and claim what is rightfully yours.

Abraço Armando! Thank you for the insightful video.!! Cheers

How could anyone fuck with Armando like that? He’s like the sweetest youtubers!

Hmm! “You messed with the wrong person” is he self proclaimed wrong person?? Hope this episode makes him a right person!

Wow he was going in on those messages, you kept it cool and professional...good lad 👊🏼

Once I was banded from YouTube, for infringing a big company and their material rights. I made an iOS App. for their system, and therefore used their name in the description. The company used me in their own commercials, I had a really good relationship with them, and I was featured in their own App. It was an algorithm that found my content, and found it illegal. I was very hard to convince the company that made the algorithm, that I had done absolute no wrong. I reached out to the big company, and they agreed that my YouTube channel should be activated as soon as possible. I took more than a month for that to happen. I was tough for me, as I always respect others work. To be looked at as a “criminal”, knowing you have done nothing wrong, is not nice. Keep fighting for your rights, and keep up the good work.

When it comes to copyright YouTube sucks

Perfect video and it was made at the right time too! I'm working on a documentary and am looking to use news file footage of Protests that took place in Puerto Rico in the summer of 2019, but was always a little hesitant about Fair Use. Thanks Armando!