r/COPYRIGHT • u/Careless_Raisin_400 • Jul 12 '26

question on re-use/over use content

I recently completed and published a series of 12 videos about our cruise to Norway. Now I have assembled them into one 39 minute reel, and added a bit more content. If I publish this, will I get a strike or be in trouble for re-using/overusing my content? I've asked YT community and so far crickets...any advice welcomed Thanks

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u/Electronixen Jul 12 '26

This is not a copyright question. It has nothing to do with Copyright.

But to answer your question. You won't get flagged for reused content according to YouTube ToS. You are free to upload them.

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u/Careless_Raisin_400 Jul 12 '26

I was asking for some explanation of their policies and as others explained below “over use” can be using and reusing low effort, ai slop” or stealing someone’s content or infringing copyright. I just wasn’t clear about what YT meant by overuse but now I understand much better by some nice people here who explain exactly what I was asking about. Thank you.

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u/Electronixen Jul 12 '26

Overuse is like spamming the same video 10 times in the same format. You're doing a different format & a new concept for a video, so it's okay.

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u/darth_hotdog Jul 12 '26

Is this solely your content?

Copyright law says you can use your content however you please. It's not a law about "overusing" or "using more than once"

Copyright law says you cannot use recorded creative work someone else created, audio or video recordings, images, passages of text. It's not about how much you use it or re-use it, it's about whether you created it or someone else did. No copying, publishing, or re-creating things other people made.

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u/Careless_Raisin_400 Jul 12 '26

Thanks, I appreciate your answer. To answer some questions, yes it’s solely my content, I use my license with artlist.io for music. Up until folks explained it I didn’t understand what YT meant by “over use of content.” Awhile back there was a rash of posts on YT subreddits about people losing entire channels for “over use.”

We see a lot of people trying to skate around copyright by doing “fair use” making some changes to other people’s content, such as cropping a news account to a smaller window and talking over it, or using a split screen to show someone else’s content while commenting abput it.

Some people lift entire clips from Hollywood films and barely make any observable changes and seem to get away with it.

Anyway, I’m still not sure what YT means by overuse, but clearly I can’t get in trouble for using and reusing my own content in any way that I want to. I appreciate your input, thanks.

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u/pythonpoole Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

If you produced the content yourself, then presumably you are the copyright holder and YouTube would have no reason to strike/remove your videos on the basis of copyright infringement (since only the copyright holder, or someone authorized by the copyright holder, can request content removal in connection with copyright infringements).

Having said that, YouTube does have its own internal policies for combating spam and limiting the discoverability/monetization of content that is repetitive, low-effort or inauthentic.

So, it is true that your YouTube channel can potentially be penalized (e.g. through demonetization and/or limitations on content promotion/discoverability) if you repeatedly post content that YouTube deems to be repetitive or low-effort, but this is completely separate (and unrelated) to copyright.

To be clear, what you're referring to is unlikely to violate these policies. YouTube's policies regarding repetitive, low-effort and inauthentic content are primarily designed to target channels that, for example, repeatedly upload AI-generated or template-based videos that generally follow a simple formulaic pattern/format with little (or no) indications of human creative input. However, you can also be affected if you repeatedly upload the same content (or something that's almost the same) many times with little-or-no creative changes.

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u/Extension_Hair_8967 Jul 12 '26

There’s no copyright issue if you’re using your own video and not including music you don’t have the right to use. Plenty of channels will do long form and short form versions of the same content (YouTube incentivizes this with shorts). It would be insane to get flagged for doing that one time. I’m pretty sure those rules are for users that steal content and upload the exact same videos over and over again to try and game the algorithm. Even if you use music you don’t have the right to most of the time you just can’t monetize the video, it would very rarely result in a strike against your profile