Banned for watching own videos?

coratison

coratison

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Hey guys, just a quick question
Does anyone know if youtube can get you banned for watching your own videos? I know you're not supposed to click on your ads (obviously, think I heard someone got in trouble because his friend wanted to help him out and clicked on the ads 100 times)
But sometimes I need to look back at the videos if I'm doing some kind of sequel to them , so I know what I did in the first one (I don't have much space on my pc so I have to eventually delete some videos)
Can you get in trouble for that?
 
To my knowledge you can't. Especially if you hardly view your own videos in the first place and are also not making money of any kind.
If it helps you can always make a personal channel and watch them from there so technically it is not the same channel looking at the same videos. Plus the personal channel is good when making videos for clients that you don't want on your main channel. =]
 
You can watch videos in the Edit Video section because that doesn't display ads if you watch it another way that does and do it often enough then that could possibly get you in trouble.
 
As far as I know you can watch your own videos, as you wrote, you should not click on the ads. I think I read it somewhere in a youtube FAQ, but I'm not completely sure. I watched some of my videos a few times or showed them to someone on my phone while I was logged in and nothing happened.
 
Do you save the videos on your hard drive? Watch them there, it's safer due to Youtube's dumbass rules. To avoid that kinda hassle, I just watch them off my computer.
 
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I watch my videos from the video manager->edit
This way even if it is generating views, it's the safest way to review your video online.
When I report bugs, sometimes YouTube asks me to send screenshots from watch page, showing the bug, so I have no other way than to watch the video from the watch page with all the risks involved,
to make screenshot, but they didn't punish me for that, yet.

And here is a depressing story. There are times when I have watch my videos that are stolen/reuploaded to other channels. I have to review them in order to see if it is just the description/title stolen, or it is the whole video. Most of the times it's just the title/description with random pictures and thumbnails from my videos. I can't do anything about these videos, it's just the person who stole the video earning a view. But if see one of my videos reuploaded/stolen, I DMCA it so the view earned will cost the thief a video (or even sometimes the channel) taken down.
 
Hirudov said:
Most of the times it's just the title/description with random pictures and thumbnails from my videos.
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Titles and descriptions are not protected (unless they contain your trademarked name), you are correct. Photos in thumbnails and screen captures from inside your videos (if they contain you original artwork or photos) are protected under Copyright. You can DMCA takedowns for those as well. I have done several dozen takedowns already for stolen thumbnails over the last year, every one of them has been taken down. So Yt does enforce copyright for thumbnails (with original photos in them you have the rights to).

If you want to protect against others using your channel name in their titles and descriptions, register it with the USPTO. Once you have the "R" issued, you should be able to enforce unauthorised use of your trademark.[DOUBLEPOST=1499865212,1499864915][/DOUBLEPOST]
coratison said:
Hey guys, just a quick question
Does anyone know if youtube can get you banned for watching your own videos? I know you're not supposed to click on your ads (obviously, think I heard someone got in trouble because his friend wanted to help him out and clicked on the ads 100 times)
But sometimes I need to look back at the videos if I'm doing some kind of sequel to them , so I know what I did in the first one (I don't have much space on my pc so I have to eventually delete some videos)
Can you get in trouble for that?
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To be extra safe, enable ad blocker when running your own videos. That way you won't click by accident on your own ads, no matter how interesting, colorful, or relevant they may be.
 
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