If someone else uploads your work, the money should still be yours
Content ID fingerprints your video and audio and scans everything uploaded to YouTube against it. When it matches, you decide what happens: block the copy, leave it up, or claim its revenue.
Registered as a reference
Your videos and tracks are fingerprinted in the Content ID database, which is what makes automatic matching possible at all.
Scanned worldwide, continuously
Every upload to YouTube is checked against your reference — including re-uploads made years later.
Claim the revenue
Monetize the copy instead of removing it, and its ad revenue is paid to you.
Disputes answered
When a claim is contested, we handle the response — the process has deadlines, and missing one loses the claim.
Protect your catalogue
Send us what you have made. We will tell you what can be registered and what it involves.