Your video has been claimed by us? Then you should read this information
We are a rights distribution company managing audio-visual content online — films, TV shows, music recordings. Usually we're not the original producer, but a licensed distributor. We hold the rights either directly from the producer/artist or via another party. You can see a list of the companies that grant us their rights here.
If we claim a video on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Dailymotion or another platform, we may:
We do this especially when the full content is used without permission, or credits are omitted with intent to gain followers or revenue. In fact, we have to fight unauthorized uploads hundreds of times a day. This costs us a lot of time and causes a lot of work. But even more important is that our licensors - the musicians, the film producers, the production studios etc. - are seriously damaged by the illegal publishing of their work!
An uploader should, therefore, carefully consider whether an appeal is justified before objecting to one of our claims. We reject appeals which invoke "fair use" for false reasons. In the same regard, unjustified appeals against a takedown can further escalate the situation and, for example, result in further claims for damages if a video that was taken down is restored due to submission of a false counterstatement! By the way: Being able to find a video elsewhere on the internet does not make it public domain content!
Please check the claim details in your content manager. Sometimes the claim is for visuals, sometimes for music — or both. Many appeals fail simply because this distinction wasn’t noticed.
Of course, in rare cases it can happen that an uploader was granted a permission to publish the content that we were not aware of. Should you have the reasonable doubt that one of our claims is not justified, you can dispute our claim by using our dispute form.