Content ID a part of Google’s anti-piracy measures comparing content uploaded by users to a database covering millions of works subjected to copyright on the YouTube. It detects whether a user has uploaded content protected by the system and enable the actual content owner to monetize the video and earning advertising revenue.
Many times it has been criticized for a too little copyright and some users catching up in bogus claims. The payout is to show about the system works to compensate creators when content is copied and put on without authorization. Google invested more than $100 million in Content ID as per reports.
Apart from all these, YouTube also paid over $1.8 billion between October 2017 and September 2018 to the music industry from advertising revenue. Google removed nearly more than 3 billion links to violating content from search and disapproved more than 10 million ads suspecting of copyright infringement.
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