Legal awareness 2018
YouTube Policy on impersonation
What is Impersonation?
What is impersonation on YouTube?
How impersonation happen on YouTube?
Report Impersonation on YouTube
How to Report Impersonation on YouTube?
Impersonation of a channel
What to do if someone impersonate your channel?
How to resolve an impersonation of your channel?
Impersonation of an individual
What to do if someone impersonate your name?
What to do if someone impersonate your image?
What to do if someone impersonate your personal information?
How to resolve an impersonation of your name?
How to resolve an impersonation of your image?
How to resolve an impersonation of your personal information?
What doesn’t count as impersonation?
Impersonation of a business:
What is impersonation of a business?
How to resolve any abuse related to your business on YouTube?
What to do if someone abuse your business on YouTube?
What is Impersonation?
An act of pretending to be another person for the purpose of
entertainment or fraud.
entertainment or fraud.
What is impersonation on YouTube?
Activities such as copying a user's channel layout, using a
similar username, or posing as another person in comments, emails, or videos
may be considered harassment.
similar username, or posing as another person in comments, emails, or videos
may be considered harassment.
How impersonation happen on YouTube?
Impersonation can happen on YouTube in two ways:
impersonation of a channel or an individual.
impersonation of a channel or an individual.
Impersonation of a channel:
A user copies a channel’s profile, background, or text, and
writes comments to make it look like somebody else’s channel posted the
comments.
writes comments to make it look like somebody else’s channel posted the
comments.
What to do if someone impersonate your channel?
How to resolve an impersonation of your channel?
You need to use YouTube reporting tool: (Safety and Abuse
Reporting)
Reporting)
Impersonation of an individual
A user creates a channel or video using another individual's
real name, image, or other personal information to deceive people into thinking
they are someone else on YouTube.
real name, image, or other personal information to deceive people into thinking
they are someone else on YouTube.
What to do if someone impersonate your name?
What to do if someone impersonate your image?
What to do if someone impersonate your personal information?
How to resolve an impersonation of your name?
How to resolve an impersonation of your image?
How to resolve an impersonation of your personal information?
You need to report it using YouTube webform.: (Report
Impersonation on YouTube)
Impersonation on YouTube)
What doesn’t count as impersonation?
Impersonation of a business:
Impersonation does not include channels or videos pretending
to represent a business.
to represent a business.
In this case you may want to consider submitting a legal
complaint via YouTube legal reporting forms. (Removing Content from YouTube)
complaint via YouTube legal reporting forms. (Removing Content from YouTube)
Dr. Mohammad Al-Thunibat
