There has to be a way to avoid YouTube copyright infringement for Purchased Adobe Stock assets?

[jyunte9]

As a content creator on YouTube, I use my Adobe Stock account to purchase music for use in my videos. I am constantly getting notified by YouTube that the fully licensed music in my videos is violating the owner's copyright. Many of these copyright claims are from videos I published to YouTube years ago. I then have to jump through numerous hoops to try to find the license number on the Adobe site (why this isn't a simple single-click button when you search from licensed assets is another question!), and then file a dispute with the copyright owner.

Surely there has to be a way to premptively avoid getting copyright hits from Adobe Stock assets that are used in videos that are uploaded to YouTube? Can I put the license number in the video description? Is that even a safe/secure thing to do? Couldn't someone simply rip the music from my video and copy the license number for their own use?

[Abambo]

Check here: https://stock.adobe.com/audio-copyright-claims

It's YouTube doing your task difficult, not Adobe. You will need to safeguard the codes, however. If the asset gets pulled from Adobe stock, the licence key won't be available any more.

[jyunte9]

Yes, I agree it's a YouTube issue. But YouTube doesn't have access to Adobe
Stock, so it can't check to see if an asset is licensed by the content
creator.

My copyright issues almost always come years after the original video is
uploaded to YouTube. The asset creator suddenly decides to copyright
his/her asset - probably because it's being used illegally -and YouTube
flags every video that contains it. At that point, I have to go through the
hoops mentioned in my original post.

[Abambo]

Yes, I agree it's a YouTube issue. But YouTube doesn't have access to AdobeStock, so it can't check to see if an asset is licensed by the contentcreator
By @jyunte9

They believe the copyright owner. The copyright owner does not need to prove that you are not entitled to use the asset, you need to prove that you have the right to use the asset. You should complain with YouTube for accepting strikes that late.

As a side note: I suppose that the copyright owner knows well, that you could have taken a licence with Adobe stock. The copyright owner is also to blame. It is not fair to let Adobe sell licences and then, when licences are sold, to strike you with a copyright claim, to get even more money out of you.

You need to follow the Adobe recommended path, and if you did, you need to counterstrike. There are no 1000 solutions to this.

And yes, you have to go through the hoops because the copyright owner is striking you, not because Adobe sold you correctly the licence. Collect the tokens of all of your licensed assets and store them somewhere, where you find them back easily.

[jyunte9]

The copyright-owner has still not released the copyright on my video. So I paid for the license, and he's getting paid for my content!

There needs to be a way to get Adobe to stop paying him until he releases copyright claims from valid license holders.

[Abambo]

That's out of my competence level. You did not yet confirm that you followed the path as laid out here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/stock-discussions/there-has-to-be-a-way-to-avoid-youtube-copyright-in...

[jyunte9]

Yes, I disputed the copyright claim (by supplying the license ID on the YouTube video), just like I always do. I did that more than 3 weeks ago. The copyright holder still hasn't released the claim. That's why I started this thread. All the other copyright claims from Adobe stock creators on my YouTube videos are released within 48 hours... but not this guy!

[Abambo]

@Liza5C0C or @Riya123 : Is there anything OP can do to get his asset released?

[jyunte9]

The good news is that the asset creator did not respond to the copyright dispute, so after 30 days, the copyright claim is dropped by YouTube. This worked in my favor, this time...

[ROBERT5F9C]

During the "contested" period YouTube (says) it puts your ad revenue in an Escrow account. So the music creator isn't receiving your earnings.

[ROBERT5F9C]

This isn't the solution you've asked for, but I ALWAYS create a folder for each purchased (stock) song from Pond5. The folder contains the song, its license, and the receipt. 

[Abambo]

This isn't the solution you've asked for, but I ALWAYS create a folder for each purchased (stock) song from Pond5. The folder contains the song, its license, and the receipt. 

By @ROBERT5F9C

It may not be the solution, but it's good advice.

[sofia_2328]

I found this on the Adobe blog

"The best way to avoid YouTube copyright notices is to initially upload your files as “unlisted.” In “unlisted” mode, YouTube will still scan the file for registered music, but also give you the opportunity to upload verification of your license before your video is published."

https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2020/06/16/adobe-stock-audio-and-youtubes-content-id

I hope this helps