Anyone who uploads many videos on YouTube will be familiar with the problem: every now and then, the automatic detection of copyright violations kicks in, and the video is flagged with a Content ID claim. This can happen even if you carefully select only permitted tracks, such as when a radio is playing in the background or when the background music uses the same loops as another song registered with Content ID.
If the claim is legitimate, you will usually replace the relevant piece, but as a quick fix, there is also the option to mute certain sections afterwards. YouTube previously offered an "Erase Song" feature in a beta version, but it did not work very reliably – according to Google, it has now been significantly improved.
Thanks to new support from AI algorithms, it should now be possible to filter out only the copyright-infringing sounds, while preserving the rest of the audio track. This means dialogues or other sounds will not be lost. However, how well this works in practice depends on the specific sound configuration – these algorithms are not flawless.
The new "Erase Song" options are expected to be available for creators in the YouTube Studio apps for desktop and mobile in the coming weeks.
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