YouTube said that starting in mid-September, copyright owners using its manual claiming tool can no longer monetize videos by creators with “very short or unintentional uses of music.”
The Google-owned video site said in a blog post that the change only impacts claims made with the manual claiming tool.
YouTube added that the change was made “to improve fairness in the creator ecosystem, while still respecting copyright owners’ rights to prevent unlicensed use of their content.”
Once the change is enacted in mid-September, copyright owners that fail to follow the new policy face losing their access to manual claiming.
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