If you have a Copyright Notice:

• Contest the Claim: Don’t panic, do not remove your video or replace the music, YouTube won’t ban or penalize you. The copyright notification will eventually be dropped (it takes from a few hours to several days) and if monetization is activated on your video all revenue starting from the day you contested the claim will be returned to you.
   
• When YouTube asks you for a reason, check: "I have permission or a license to use the content claimed in my video" If you were using our Free License with credits, in the comments field put a link to the page where you have downloaded the track. If you have bought a license, give your license certificate information.
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• If the claim is not yet reported contact us with details about the claim: track title, composer, and the company and/or label that has registered the track. This way we can do something on our side if someone is trying to steal our artists' work.
  Current fraudulent claims reported:


• Claim from WMG from using our track "GOING HIGHER".  

• The YouTube Content ID needs to be improved!

  Anybody can register music to the Content ID. Even if you don’t have a label, you just have to create an account on a platform and upload the file. The consequence of this is that anybody can actually upload a musician’s music and claim it as their own work.

  There are solutions that YouTube could implement:

  • Allow composers to «white list» their music if they want to. That will prevent people from claiming other artists’ music as their own.
     
  • Allow people that register music in the content ID to authorize the use of their music by default if they want to. This way if someone else claims the music a dispute is created between the 2 parties and the video won’t be impacted during the investigation.