Understand the copyright claim on your video
Need help understanding a copyright issue with your video? Follow the steps below to learn what you can do to resolve it.
Step 1: Look up the status of your video
Go to your copyright notices and select the text that appears next to your video:
- "Removed (copyright strike)"
- "Matched third-party content"
- "Video blocked in some countries"
- "Video blocked worldwide"
- "Acknowledged third-party content"
- I don't see the video in my copyright notices.
- I see something else next to my video.
- "Your video may include music that is owned by a third party."
- "Your video may include clips that are owned by a third party."
- "Your video may include content that is owned by a third party."
- "Your video may include a song owned by a third party. For example, this might be a song playing in the background or someone performing a song.”
- There is popular music playing in my video (or in the background of my video).
- I let the video game soundtrack play during my gameplay or tutorial.
- I let the soundtrack play during my review of a song, video game, or other work.
- I removed music or other sound recordings from my video.
- I uploaded a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video.
- I included a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video in my own, original YouTube video.
- This video features my own video gameplay.
- I created 100% original content with my own camera.
- The game publisher
- Someone other than the game publisher
- I uploaded a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video.
- I included a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video in my own, original YouTube video.
- There is popular music playing in my video (or in the background of my video).
- I let the video game soundtrack play during my gameplay or tutorial.
- I let the soundtrack play during my review of a song, video game, or other work.
- This video features my own video gameplay.
- I removed music or other sound recordings from my video.
- I created 100% original content with my own camera.
- The game publisher
- Someone other than the game publisher
- There is popular music playing in my video (or in the background of my video).
- I cover another artist's song in my video.
- I let the video game soundtrack play during my gameplay or tutorial.
- I let the soundtrack play during my review of a song, video game, or other work.
- I removed music or other sound recordings from my video.
- "Your video may include music that is owned by a third party."
- "Your video may include clips that are owned by a third party."
- "Your video may include content that is owned by a third party."
- "Your video may include a song owned by a third party. For example, this might be a song playing in the background or someone performing a song.”
- There is popular music playing in my video (or in the background of my video).
- I let the video game soundtrack play during my gameplay or tutorial.
- I let the soundtrack play during my review of a song, video game, or other work.
- I removed music or other sound recordings from my video.
- I uploaded a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video.
- I included a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video in my own, original YouTube video.
- This video features my own video gameplay.
- I created 100% original content with my own camera.
- The game publisher
- Someone other than the game publisher
- I uploaded a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video.
- I included a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video in my own, original YouTube video.
- There is popular music playing in my video (or in the background of my video).
- I let the video game soundtrack play during my gameplay or tutorial.
- I let the soundtrack play during my review of a song, video game, or other work.
- This video features my own video gameplay.
- I removed music or other sound recordings from my video.
- I created 100% original content with my own camera.
- The game publisher
- Someone other than the game publisher
- There is popular music playing in my video (or in the background of my video).
- I cover another artist's song in my video.
- I let the video game soundtrack play during my gameplay or tutorial.
- I let the soundtrack play during my review of a song, video game, or other work.
- I removed music or other sound recordings from my video.
- "Your video may include music that is owned by a third party."
- "Your video may include clips that are owned by a third party."
- "Your video may include content that is owned by a third party."
- "Your video may include a song owned by a third party. For example, this might be a song playing in the background or someone performing a song.”
- There is popular music playing in my video (or in the background of my video).
- I let the video game soundtrack play during my gameplay or tutorial.
- I let the soundtrack play during my review of a song, video game, or other work.
- I removed music or other sound recordings from my video.
- I uploaded a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video.
- I included a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video in my own, original YouTube video.
- This video features my own video gameplay.
- I created 100% original content with my own camera.
- The game publisher
- Someone other than the game publisher
- I uploaded a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video.
- I included a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video in my own, original YouTube video.
- There is popular music playing in my video (or in the background of my video).
- I let the video game soundtrack play during my gameplay or tutorial.
- I let the soundtrack play during my review of a song, video game, or other work.
- This video features my own video gameplay.
- I removed music or other sound recordings from my video.
- I created 100% original content with my own camera.
- The game publisher
- Someone other than the game publisher
- There is popular music playing in my video (or in the background of my video).
- I cover another artist's song in my video.
- I let the video game soundtrack play during my gameplay or tutorial.
- I let the soundtrack play during my review of a song, video game, or other work.
- I removed music or other sound recordings from my video.
- "Matched third-party content"
- "Video blocked in some countries"
- "Video blocked worldwide"
- "Your video may include music that is owned by a third party."
- "Your video may include clips that are owned by a third party."
- "Your video may include content that is owned by a third party."
- "Your video may include a song owned by a third party. For example, this might be a song playing in the background or someone performing a song.”
- There is popular music playing in my video (or in the background of my video).
- I let the video game soundtrack play during my gameplay or tutorial.
- I let the soundtrack play during my review of a song, video game, or other work.
- I removed music or other sound recordings from my video.
- I uploaded a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video.
- I included a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video in my own, original YouTube video.
- This video features my own video gameplay.
- I created 100% original content with my own camera.
- The game publisher
- Someone other than the game publisher
- I uploaded a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video.
- I included a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video in my own, original YouTube video.
- There is popular music playing in my video (or in the background of my video).
- I let the video game soundtrack play during my gameplay or tutorial.
- I let the soundtrack play during my review of a song, video game, or other work.
- This video features my own video gameplay.
- I removed music or other sound recordings from my video.
- I created 100% original content with my own camera.
- The game publisher
- Someone other than the game publisher
- There is popular music playing in my video (or in the background of my video).
- I cover another artist's song in my video.
- I let the video game soundtrack play during my gameplay or tutorial.
- I let the soundtrack play during my review of a song, video game, or other work.
- I removed music or other sound recordings from my video.
- "Your video may include music that is owned by a third party."
- "Your video may include clips that are owned by a third party."
- "Your video may include content that is owned by a third party."
- "Your video may include a song owned by a third party. For example, this might be a song playing in the background or someone performing a song.”
- There is popular music playing in my video (or in the background of my video).
- I let the video game soundtrack play during my gameplay or tutorial.
- I let the soundtrack play during my review of a song, video game, or other work.
- I removed music or other sound recordings from my video.
- I uploaded a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video.
- I included a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video in my own, original YouTube video.
- This video features my own video gameplay.
- I created 100% original content with my own camera.
- The game publisher
- Someone other than the game publisher
- I uploaded a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video.
- I included a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video in my own, original YouTube video.
- There is popular music playing in my video (or in the background of my video).
- I let the video game soundtrack play during my gameplay or tutorial.
- I let the soundtrack play during my review of a song, video game, or other work.
- This video features my own video gameplay.
- I removed music or other sound recordings from my video.
- I created 100% original content with my own camera.
- The game publisher
- Someone other than the game publisher
- There is popular music playing in my video (or in the background of my video).
- I cover another artist's song in my video.
- I let the video game soundtrack play during my gameplay or tutorial.
- I let the soundtrack play during my review of a song, video game, or other work.
- I removed music or other sound recordings from my video.
- "Your video may include music that is owned by a third party."
- "Your video may include clips that are owned by a third party."
- "Your video may include content that is owned by a third party."
- "Your video may include a song owned by a third party. For example, this might be a song playing in the background or someone performing a song.”
- There is popular music playing in my video (or in the background of my video).
- I let the video game soundtrack play during my gameplay or tutorial.
- I let the soundtrack play during my review of a song, video game, or other work.
- I removed music or other sound recordings from my video.
- I uploaded a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video.
- I included a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video in my own, original YouTube video.
- This video features my own video gameplay.
- I created 100% original content with my own camera.
- The game publisher
- Someone other than the game publisher
- I uploaded a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video.
- I included a clip from a TV show, movie, video game, YouTube channel or some other video in my own, original YouTube video.
- There is popular music playing in my video (or in the background of my video).
- I let the video game soundtrack play during my gameplay or tutorial.
- I let the soundtrack play during my review of a song, video game, or other work.
- This video features my own video gameplay.
- I removed music or other sound recordings from my video.
- I created 100% original content with my own camera.
- The game publisher
- Someone other than the game publisher
- There is popular music playing in my video (or in the background of my video).
- I cover another artist's song in my video.
- I let the video game soundtrack play during my gameplay or tutorial.
- I let the soundtrack play during my review of a song, video game, or other work.
- I removed music or other sound recordings from my video.