[swang]

On a similar note a Game YouTuber, Jim Sterling (Jimquistion), was frustrated that when he put out videos with some clips of video games or other movies, companies would come in and claim ownership and monetize his videos. He didn't like that since he wanted to be ad-free and these companies would essentially force his viewers to watch ads that he wouldn't even get any money for. These large companies didn't care because it's free money for them.

So he figured out how to get around stupid contentID flags. He put in clips of videos from different companies and spliced them into his videos. This caused a couple of companies to claim copyright over his video, but when there are multiple claimants for one video, Google's system doesn't give any of them any ad money. So in effect he gets to continue to use clips while not having any companies monetize his viewers.

[t0mbstone]

"when there are multiple claimants for one video, Google's system doesn't give any of them any ad money"

If that's true, then couldn't he simply file a claim of his own to counter a single company's claim?

[swang]

Maybe? I'm not really sure. How hard is it to get into the contentID system?

I'm guessing part of the reason he did this was more for the humor of screwing with larger media companies.