YouTube keeps disabling monetization (Google Adsense) on my account, claiming that I cannot prove I own the copyrights to home videos I filmed with my own camera.
There is NO copyrighted music, pictures or film clips in them. Just me and my family.
Why? Could it be religious or racial persecution?
First of all you need to know that Copyright is different from trademarks, designs and patents. You do not need to register a copyright. Copyright is automatically generated when an author creates a work. By filming you automatically create a copyrighted article of work – the video.
As far as You-tube goes – by posting your work to YouTube you are subjecting it to YouTube’s terms of dealing with your Copyright. YouTube Clause 6C (see below and the link) clearly says you continue to own your content – it IS yours – the advice you have received to the contrary is wrong.
You tube gets a royalty free right to use your content.
The problem is you may have violated Clause 4D of the YouTube Standard Terms of Service (again see below). Basically it is a breach of contract for you to try to extract payment from anyone for virewing your content on YouTube without the permission of YouTube. Although why they would do this is unknown if you have filled out all of the right boxes and applied through their channels.
Other things to look out for – music in the background, a TV on in the background, pictures of art on your walls. All of these things are other people’s copyrighted works. You need the rights for those as well. You need waivers and releases from anyone besides you in the videos.
Anyway check the details of what is going on and follow up re getting permission to charge for viewing access to your account.
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CLAUSE 4D
You agree not to use the Service for any of the following commercial uses unless you obtain YouTube’s prior written approval:
the sale of access to the Service;
the sale of advertising, sponsorships, or promotions placed on or within the Service or Content; or
the sale of advertising, sponsorships, or promotions on any page of an ad-enabled blog or website containing Content delivered via the Service, unless other material not obtained from YouTube appears on the same page and is of sufficient value to be the basis for such sales.
CLAUSE 6C:
For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your Content. However, by submitting Content to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, publish, adapt, make available online or electronically transmit, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and YouTube’s (and its successors’ and affiliates’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each user of the Service a non-exclusive license to access your Content through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display, publish, make available online or electronically transmit, and perform such Content as permitted through the functionality of the Service and under these Terms of Service. The above licenses granted by you in video Content you submit to the Service terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete your videos from the Service. You understand and agree, however, that YouTube may retain, but not display, distribute, or perform, server copies of your videos that have been removed or deleted. The above licenses granted by you in user comments you submit are perpetual and irrevocable.
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