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by bonzini 1813 days ago
The latter. If a creator uses copyrighted (or allegedly copyrighted) material, ad revenue goes to the copyright owner.
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> to the copyright owner

The copyright claimant, which may or may not actually own any such right.

Example: copyright trolls claiming videos that use public domain NASA footage.
Yeah that was implicit in the "allegedly" part.