YouTube Can Now Use Artificial Intelligence to Remove Copyrighted Music From Videos
YouTube quietly celebrated Independence Day this week by introducing a new feature that uses artificial intelligence to help creators declare their independence from copyright infringement.
One of the most annoying parts of streaming or creating YouTube videos is when copyrighted music accidentally ends up in your videos. If you don’t figure this out sooner, you could lose all the money the video makes and you could end up in trouble with YouTube itself.
Sometimes it catches piracy. He often catches people who come across a licensed song in a video game or in the background of their vlog. For live video, not muting the sound quickly enough could result in the stream’s archive being demonetized, while creators creating an edited video may have to spend hours painstakingly isolating the song from the rest of their work.
YouTube has had a beta version of the Erase Song tool for a while now, but the company isn’t proud of its effectiveness. Now the company is updating the feature with a new AI algorithm that will scan videos for copyrighted music and give creators two options.
The Erase Song feature will use artificial intelligence to try to intelligently mute only the offending music while leaving the rest of the audio untouched, while Mute All Audio will work as a fallback option to mute a video for the duration of a copyrighted song .
While YouTube promises better performance with the updated tool, the company’s support page says it “may not work if the song is too difficult to remove,” so a fallback is needed.
Unfortunately, Erase Song is only available if the video is copyrighted, which means it cannot be actively used. To access it, go to the Copyright Complaint Summary page and click “Select Action” in the bottom right corner of the screen. Tap Erase Song , then select Erase Song (yes, again) to intelligently remove only the claimed audio using AI. Or click “Mute all audio in reported segments” if you’re not sure what the AI can do. You can preview the edited video before you submit your claim, and if you mute all audio in a claimed segment, you can use the suggested timestamps or customize your own.
YouTube’s support page states that “if all claimed audio can be muted, the Content ID claim will be removed from your video,” meaning creators can use this system to avoid disputes with a representative.
Erase Song joins other similar tools such as “Replace Song,” which allows creators to replace a copyrighted song with royalty-free music, and “Trim Out Segment,” which simply removes the copyrighted portion of a video entirely. copyright claimed.