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How To Avoid Copyright Strikes from Reaction Videos

“I have a reaction channel as well and just like you I never appealed anything, I would dispute under fair use and leave it at that to see if it would be overturned or if they held their claim. And I never had any issue with that until recently, I disputed a copyright claim as usual and was immediately met with a takedown strike. The video was never posted, I was only ever in my drafts. I emailed the record label explaining what happened and asked them if they would remove takedown request and just leave it as copyright claim but I never received a response. What makes even less sense is there are tons of reactions to that exact song and performance that I had done, yet those videos are up no problem. So now I feel as though I can’t even dispute anything anymore because it did in fact result in a strike, when I thought that wasn’t possible. All to say, just a heads up for you, YT changes all the time and that is how I got mine, following the exact same procedure you have been.”

“I got my first strike TONIGHT from Sony. I am new to reactions (only about 5 months in). I do surface level musical analysis of music. This was a OST from the anime Bleach. I primarily do a lot of educational music breakdown type of vids. It’s not just a play and say “wow that is cool”. The video was not public it was private and STILL earned my channel a strike. I have watched your videos before and remember you saying you have done thousands of videos without a strike. It can happen. I have heard that Bleach is starting to get after folks. Fair use is not really fair use it seems difficult for YouTube to back us. Especially confusing when global music is used.”