YouTube publishes first Copyright Transparency Report on enforcement efforts

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YouTube has published its first Copyright Transparency Report providing insight into the company’s copyright enforcement efforts. The report assesses data from the first half of 2021 and looks at how YouTube’s copyright management tools, including the public Webform, Copyright Match and Content ID systems, operate at scale. YouTube highlights that the majority of claims and removal requests originated through automatic detection technology using the Copyright Match and Content ID tools. 722 million claims were made through the Content ID tool representing over 99% of all copyright actions on YouTube in the first half of 2021, and more than 1.6 million removal requests were submitted through the Copyright Match Tool in the same period. Additionally, YouTube also measured how often creators push back against removals and Content ID claims that are believed to be made in error. A low level of disputes was seen, with less than 1% of all Content ID claims being disputed across the first six...