YouTube Claim Support
The easiest way to avoid copyright claims is to update your YouTube channels within My Account. By providing us with your YouTube channel IDs, we are able to remove the majority of claims automatically in less than 30 minutes.
Dispute a copyright claim
If your YouTube channels are up to date in My Account and your claim was not automatically resolved in less than 30 minutes, we can still help you! By filing a dispute form we are able to remove 95% of outstanding copyright claims in less than 72 hours.
What is this?
Our content is 100% royalty-free and customers are licensed to use our tracks on both commercial and non-commercial projects worldwide in perpetuity.
That being said, not all of our content is exclusive to Storyblocks. We do not own the copyright to the tracks. Since we share a license to distribute the content, other companies may also have the license to use the same material.
Copyright claims occur on YouTube videos on a regular basis, regardless of where the video creator got their music. The original idea was to make sure content creators get fair compensation whenever their content is used in a video. For example, if a YouTube creator uses a song that was written and composed by someone else, that person is entitled to royalties from the video because their song was used.
What happens if a copyright claim is placed on a video I upload to YouTube?
Don't worry! We got you! Since our music is royalty-free and licensed to you, the video creator, these claims are erroneous. Fill out the form above with the claimant's name, the link to your YouTube video and the link to the specific Storyblocks track being claimed. You can find all this information in the copyright notice sent to you from YouTube.
This keeps happening to my videos, what gives?
Right?! This is frustrating for us, just like it is for you because we know our customers are licensed to use the content.
YouTube's original system for cracking down on copyright infringement was issuing cease-and-desist notices to infringing users and/or removing the video from YouTube. A few years ago, they devised a system that would allow copyright holders to submit content to YouTube and their Content ID system would find videos that used that content. The copyright holder (or an agency acting on their behalf, which is usually the case) would then place a copyright claim on the video and begin collecting royalties for the copyright holder. If the YouTuber that made the video wishes to keep using the music being claimed, they can, but they won't get any monetization from it. They can also opt to either replace the music from YouTube's collection of royalty-free music, dispute the copyright claim, or remove the video entirely.
Essentially, copyright ID claims are a compromise between getting a C&D notice under the DMCA and letting anyone use any content in their videos whether original or not. It's not a perfect practice and leaves much to be desired; but when it comes to music that is actually licensed to someone for commercial use, copyright claims are designed to make sure that the video maker has the rights to use that media.
Imagine someone else using Storyblocks content for free that you paid to have properly licensed to you. This system prevents that from happening.