YouTube: 60 percent of 3.7 million disputed copyright claims were wrong
YouTube has released a copyright enforcement report. In the first half of this year, nearly 3.7 million claims were disputed by uploaders. In 60 percent of the cases, the uploaders were found in the right.
A blog post on the report states that 2.2 million cases have worked out in favor of the uploader. In that case, the claim has been removed by the submitter after the dispute, or the complainant has not responded after the dispute, after which the claim expires after thirty days.
This means that 1.5 million cases have fallen in favor of the complainant. The latter is the case if the complainant chooses to uphold his claim despite the dispute or if the complainant submits a removal request.
YouTube makes very little use of the opportunity to contest a copyright claim. The 3.7 million cases in which this happened represent only 0.5 percent of the total of 722.7 million claims made via Content ID on the video platform.
Those 722.7 million claims make up more than 99 percent of all claims on YouTube. There are three other methods that have been used much less than the dominant Content ID: 2.9 million complaints came via Enterprise Webform, 1.7 million via the Copyright Match Tool and another 2.2 million via Webform.
In the underlying report, YouTube writes that “no system is perfect.” The company says errors still occur despite “active copyright knowledge” and the resources needed to manage a “complex tool.” The latter refers to Content ID.