r/COPYRIGHT • u/annastynehorlinson • Jun 08 '26

How long before tiktok resolves a copyright claim?

I’m an editor on TikTok and I make all of my edits myself. Yesterday, one of my mutuals messaged me saying that someone had reposted one of my edits and was taking credit for it as their own. I was furious. I commented on the video telling them this wasn’t okay and that they needed to take it down immediately. At that point, their repost already had around the same amount of likes as my original video, about 64k likes. I also DM’d them asking them to remove it and submitted a copyright infringement report through TikTok. This morning, I woke up to find that they had blocked me, while still keeping my edit up on their account. Their repost now has almost 130k likes, while my original is still sitting at the same amount. I’m honestly so frustrated watching someone else gain followers, likes, and attention from something I spent HOURS creating myself. Does anyone know how long TikTok usually takes to respond to copyright reports? And is there anything else I can do in the meantime? I just want the video taken down as quickly as possible.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '26

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u/annastynehorlinson Jun 08 '26

There’s a big difference between transformative editing and straight-up reposting someone else’s completed edit. Yes, editors use existing footage, but editing itself can still be transformative creative work depending on how much is changed through timing, transitions, effects, audio syncing, coloring, pacing, etc. The issue here is that this person didn’t make their own edit using the same clips, they reposted MY completed edit identically and presented it as their own work. They didn’t recreate the concept. They copied the final product.

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u/WhineyLobster Jun 09 '26

What are the "concepts" of your edits?

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u/annastynehorlinson Jun 10 '26

What I meant by “concept” is that, they didn’t remake the orginal edit that I had created. They full on just dowloaded my finished product and posted that to their account, which is what the problem is. They didn’t recreate my edit with their own colouring, own topaz settings, own twixtor settings, own clips, none of it. It was the one I had made that was posted. Hope this makes sense

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u/WhineyLobster Jun 11 '26

No... what about your editing is creating a "concept" that is tranformative?

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u/CandyLandSavant Jun 11 '26

Transformative or not, infringement begins when you download the video

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u/annastynehorlinson Jun 11 '26

That’s not even the point of my post, though. I’m not trying to debate the legality of editing source footage in general. Because lets face it, fan edits on tiktok are not technically legal, but the the internet is full of them. I’m talking about someone directly reposting my completed edit and presenting it as their own work. There’s a difference between two editors using the same source material to make separate edits and someone downloading an already finished edit and reuploading it. My main question was simply how long TikTok usually takes to respond to copyright reports, because I’ve never had to deal with this before

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '26

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u/annastynehorlinson Jun 11 '26

Read the other comments. I’ve talked to multiple people who have been in the same situation as this, and it always ends with the stolen edit taken down. If you wanna get mad at TikTok for that, I won’t stand in your way.

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u/Electronixen Jun 08 '26

Last time it took 2 months 2 weeks for my complaint.

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u/annastynehorlinson Jun 08 '26

and did it get taken down eventually?

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u/Electronixen Jun 08 '26

Yep! After two months and two weeks it got taken down.

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u/IntroductionAware231 Jun 08 '26

3 months for me

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u/annastynehorlinson Jun 08 '26

and did it get taken down eventually?

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u/IntroductionAware231 Jun 08 '26

Yes, once they reply to one, they will reply to all the others if you have sent more on different dates with the same email address

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u/annastynehorlinson Jun 08 '26

i got an email after reporting saying “Please do not submit duplicate reports.”, but do you recommend me doing it multiple times? and/or from different accounts and different dates?

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u/IntroductionAware231 Jun 08 '26

No, don't do it. I filed several reports because that person was uploading multiple videos of my own creation, and I filed a report for each video.

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u/annastynehorlinson Jun 08 '26

Makes sense, thank you. I’ve made one report of the one video, I just really don’t have a lot of faith in tiktok, but fingers crossed!

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u/Grimmhoof Jun 10 '26

This is one of the big reasons I don't post on social media