Youtube - How to tell when someone has used your stuff

[bunchofkeys]

I uploaded a short recording a few years back of a particular engine fault that sounded terrible.
This was so i could send it over to the dealer as proof of said failure.

Because of the tagging that i used, the clip has been viewed a few thousand times during the time it's been online.

Just by absolute chance, i can see that someone else has nabbed a bit of what I uploaded, and used it in their upload.

It would have been nice, if they asked me for permission before doing so, but so be it.
But my question, is there a way to know if someone has taken an extract of your upload and used it for their own purpose?

Or is this something that maybe AI can work out in the future?

[the-norseman]

You can report it I think.

[Narcisus]

Don't expect any help from Youtube if whoever has stolen your content disputes the takedown ....

[spuds1]

How has the extract of your video been used exactly?

Is just someone passing off your video as their own? Or have they incorporated it into a broad production of their own?

If the former, you might be able to get it taken down. If the latter, I don't believe you have any recourse as it would come under fair use in a derivative work.

[vaud]

FYI for future reference you can upload a video as unlisted and just use the direct URL as a link.

I know that doesn't help you now.

[Narcisus]

spuds1 said:

How has the extract of your video been used exactly?

Is just someone passing off your video as their own? Or have they incorporated it into a broad production of their own?

If the former, you might be able to get it taken down. If the latter, I don't believe you have any recourse as it would come under fair use in a derivative work.

This is what happened to me .... One particular video on my channel had nearly 2 million views. Someone copied it whole and added their own voice over.

I asked them to take it down and was ignored. Requested a takedown after a week which youtube did.

They then appealed quoting fair use and youtube reinstated the video and said if I wanted it taking down I had to prove I had instigated legal action against the channel.

Youtube had zero interested that it was my full video but just with an added voice over if I mailed them I just had the same canned email back.

I was a bit disillusioned by the whole thing so just binned the channel.

[MrCheese]

Suppose I upload a vid to YouTube with text at the start that says I do not give anyone permission to re-use any part of this video would that hold water either legally or with YouTube? Could that also prevent clips under fair use?