Name: The corruption of YouTube copyright strikes explained | Rick Beato and Lex Fridman
Uploaded: 2026-03-05T21:49:18.000Z
Duration: 5 min 59 s
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I have to ask you about this complexity that you're facing on a basically daily basis.

I think it's a challenge a lot of YouTube folks experience, but

you're just so viscerally experiencing it because a lot of what you do in your channel is celebrate music broadly.

And so as part of that process you have to sometimes show clips of music.

And I think all of that falls under fair use quite obviously.

And so you get all these YouTube copyright claims and for folks who don't know, if you get three, three of those, it's.

Each one of those can be a strike on the channel and can take down your channel and you get some insane amount.

I think I had a similar thing on a Rick Rubin episode.

So what can you just speak to this whole thing?

Wmg, umg, all the, all the three letter name record labels.

Well, this has been going on since the beginning of my channel and I've made videos periodically.

When I first started it was just instant blocks.

So you never knew back in I started, it'll be 10 years in June.

So when I play music In a video, YouTubers were not playing music in videos because they didn't, because of the content ID things and the takedowns and stuff.

So I would play music and I just see what happens.

And then you get a content ID claim or you realize that people were quote unquote blockers.

And I came up with that term that they would block your video, take down your video.

And I, I realized at first it was like anything.

I mean many bands, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin.

There was that guy in the skateboard on TikTok that had the Ocean Spray thing and he was listening to Dreams by Fleetwood Mac.

And that blew up and became a number one song again.

And the labels then realized, I mean, I had made many videos about why this is wrong and it should be fair use and everything.

Well, because of that, the labor's like, oh, maybe we should rethink this.

And then they just started demonetizing videos.

Demonetized means they get all the money.

They get all the money in a one hour video.

If they, if you use 20 seconds of a clip, they get all the money.

Okay, So I hired a lawyer finally after the Rick Rubin video, because I thought it was ridiculous.

And I had her hired a lawyer to fight this, who I'm going to have on my channel.

he's another YouTuber and he had approached me a couple years ago and.

Oh, you're going to do like a public interview with him?

I'm going to do an interview with him, yes.

So he said, you should fight these because every single one of them is fair use.

I have 2,100 videos, and he's fought 4,000 content ID claims and won every single one of them.

I mean, when I do top 20 guitar solos, there's 20 content ID claims.

It can be either from the sound recording, if I use that, or if I just play.

Is there a hopeful thing you can say about the future of.

Fight these content ID claims if it's fair use.

If you're not just playing the song and listening to it and.

Because a lot of stuff that are reaction videos or whatever that are where they play the whole song.

I mean, I'm using these things and I'm talking.

A lot of the times it's in interviews or it's in.

I'm breaking down a solo and there's a. Yeah, see, that's an obvious one.

Like, when a person is just sitting there and listening to it and they're like, you know, like a.

Like a voice teacher is listening to a vocal performance.

I think that the content ID stuff that was happening with these major labels, they would hire third parties that would go out, use AI and go.

And anytime they detect anything, they always go to the biggest channels first to get the most views.

And they would claim everything that they could.

And historically, YouTubers never would fight back.

And at these things because they're afraid to have their channels taken down.