14 DAY TRIAL // Did you know that YouTube has a separate page hosted on its website to inform users about the copyright matters concerning their uploaded videos? If not, let me present it to you. YouTube's copyright tips contain several tricks addresses to the upload that will help the user and the service avoid copyright lawsuits. Even if the page exists, YouTube was assaulted with a huge number of complaints filed for publishing videos without authorization. However, the online video sharing service encourages users to upload their own content, an important step to attract more home-generated videos.
"The way to ensure that your video doesn't infringe someone else's copyright is to use your skills and imagination to create something completely original. It could be as simple as taping some of your friends goofing around, and as complicated as filming your own short movie with a script, actors, and the whole works. If it's all yours, you never have to worry about the copyright-you own it!" YouTube sustains on the page.
An interesting fact is represented by the categories mentioned by YouTube and regarded as the ones that might infringe somebody else's copyrights. For example, the video sharing service sustains that users must pay attention when they decide to upload TV shows as most of them are owned by other company. However, YouTube currently offers a considerable number of TV shows, some of them being uploaded from the registered members. In the past, YouTube received a subpoena sent by Fox that was requiring some private information about a certain user that uploaded pirated copies of a TV show just before the official release in the United States.
If you want to avoid the problems with the copyrights for your uploaded clips, you should read this page and find out more information about the potential complaints.