YouTube's copyright protection filter blocks official movies as "infringing copyright"

byEugenio Ramírez Gómez

To protect copyright holders, YouTube uses "Content ID"We use the mechanism called" YouTube content management ". The content ID is a movie that is uploaded on YouTube and it is scanned whether it infringes another content, and if it is judged that it is "infringing on copyright", it blocks and monetizes the movie or listens It is a mechanism to make it impossible. With such a YouTube filter, "Website of legitimate rights official channel has been blocked", a website that reports copyright, privacy, news related to file sharing softwareTorrentFreakHas reported.

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Although the content ID operated by YouTube is functioning normally in most cases, sometimesWhite noiseYaBird's barkThere is a situation where the content ID gets caught on the content ID. Although it is not necessarily perfect content ID, it finally got to block movies uploaded by organizations with copyright.

Since mid-June of 2018, I am doing activities to open the contents of the lecture of the university and related information through the Internet free of chargeOpen CoursewareAs part of,MITOfficial YouTube channel managed byMIT OpenCourseWareMy movie has suddenly been blocked.

When trying to listen to the movie of MIT OpenCourseWare, it says "This movie contains MIT's content, so it can not be used in your country". However, the channel on which the movie was uploaded is undoubtedly the one of MIT OpenCourseWare.


MIT OpenCourseWare received an official Twitter account from MIT OpenCourseWare 's account in response to a situation in which YouTube' s movie can not be audited.Official pageWe are conducting guidance.

There is still a ton of content you can have have trouble with our videos! Please stand by. The elves are working around the clock to fix the issue.@ MITOCWthat does not have video.https://t.co/EhmEV6ywNQHang in there folks!pic.twitter.com/ylvW50Nclw

- MIT OpenCourseWare (@ MITOCW)June 16, 2018

Also, the same phenomenon develops open source 3D computer graphics softwareBlenderOfficial channel also has occurred, it seems that the official movie has been judged as "copyright violation" has been determined.


Both channels are official channels with many subscribers, but even at the time of writing articles that have been several days since the beginning of movie blocking, the reason why the movie was blocked was not known , The block state has not been canceled. Also, it is a Czech football clubAC Sparta · PragueofOfficial Movie, The England rugby management organizationRugby / Football / UnionofOfficial MovieThere is also a state that can not be audited.

TorrentFreak said that we sent a question about this issue to YouTube but we have not received a reply as of June 18, 2018.