YouTube gives the boot to Partners who post ‘duplicative content’

If you’re a YouTube Partner uploading someone else’s work, beware. YouTube is checking in on you and might revoke your Partner privileges.

In a post on the company’s official help forum, YouTube announced that it’s doubling down on efforts to curb abuse within the YouTube Partner Program. Specifically, a YouTube spokesperson outlined in the post that it’s cracking down on a policy regarding channels posting “duplicative content.”

YouTube describes the type of content in violation of its policies as: 

• Appearing to be automatically generated.

• Pulled from third party sources with no content or narrative added by the creator.

• Uploaded many times by multiple users and you’re not the original uploader.

• Uploaded in a way that is trying to get around our copyright tools. Read more…

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