The Copyright Match Tool finds full reuploads of your original videos on other YouTube channels. Once a match has been identified, you can review it in YouTube Studio and choose which action you’d like to take. At this time, we’re rolling this tool out as a small pilot.
Here’s how it works: when you upload your original video to YouTube, we’ll begin scanning all the videos that are uploaded after yours to see if any of them match. It’s important that you are the first to upload the content to YouTube as a public video since we use the video upload time to decide who should see matches. Be sure to check back regularly to keep an eye on any new matches we’ve found.
After almost a year in beta-testing, YouTube’s new Copyright Match tool is scheduled to launch next week for creators with more than 100,000 subscribers. With the new system, after a user uploads a video — and YouTube verifies it as the first iteration of the video — YouTube will scan other videos uploaded to the service to see if any of them are the same (or very similar).
When the Copyright Match tool finds a match, the ID’s video will show up in a “Matches” tab in the tool. Creators can opt to do one of the three things: nothing, leaving up the matching video; contact the other creator; or request that YouTube remove the video. YouTube will review takedown requests to ensure they comply with its copyright policies.