Guides for creators

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A website turned your video into an articleHow to deal with sites that rewrite your videos as ad-filled articles and re-host your thumbnails: finding the host and registrar, writing a notice that works, and removing the page from Google.Facebook didn't remove the copyWhy a copyright report to Meta can fail, why there's no appeal for the person who reported, and how to file a stronger report or take it further.Someone is pretending to be you onlineHow to report a fake Facebook profile, Instagram account, YouTube channel or TikTok account using your name, face or brand, who is allowed to report it, and what to prepare.Someone is using your thumbnailWhether your YouTube thumbnail is protected by UK copyright, what you can and can't claim when it contains other people's photos, and how to report a copy on each platform.Someone reposted your video on FacebookHow to report a Facebook or Instagram copy of your YouTube video through Meta's copyright form, what Meta tells the uploader, and what to do when it comes back.Someone reuploaded your YouTube videoHow to file a copyright removal request on YouTube, what the uploader sees, how strikes work, and how the Copyright Match Tool helps once you've filed.They filed a counter-notice. What now?What a counter-notice is, what it must contain, how long you have to respond on YouTube, TikTok and Facebook, and how to decide whether to let the content come back.Your content being stolen and clip-farmed into ReelsHow to report a Reel that reposts your YouTube video, using Meta's intellectual property form: what each box asks for, what the poster is told about you, and what Meta does and doesn't promise.Your video is on TikTok, but you didn't post itHow to report TikToks that copy your videos, including films cut into numbered parts, what TikTok's strike rules mean for the copier, and how to ask TikTok to stop the same video coming back.

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