YouTube Policy on impersonation 2018

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.

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.

How impersonation happen on YouTube?

Impersonation can happen on YouTube in two ways:
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.

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)

https://www.youtube.com/reportabuse

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.

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)

https://support.google.com/youtube/contact/impersonation

What doesn’t count as impersonation?

Impersonation of a business:

Impersonation does not include channels or videos pretending
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)

https://www.youtube.com/reportingtool/legal?visit_id=636707850630761437-2812476720&rd=1

Dr. Mohammad Al-Thunibat

Legal awareness: YouTube Subscriber counts Rules 2018

Legal awareness 2018YouTube tips and adviceYouTube Subscriber counts rules

 Subscriber counts

The number of users subscribed to your YouTube channel is a
metric that reflects how many people are following your channel. Subscriber
numbers displayed in the following places update in real time:

1. Your channel page

2. Account switcher

3. Video watch page

4. Third-party sites and

5. applications using the YouTube Data API:

Add YouTube features to your
application, including the ability to upload videos, create and manage
playlists, and more.

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/

Spam subscribers

Removing spammy subscribers

Gaining subscribers through artificial means

Coordinated exchanges subscribers

Sub4sub exchange

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6051134?hl=en&ref_topic=2803176

Changes to subscriber count

Subscriber count changing or dropping

Reasons of changing or dropping of your subscriber counts:

- Viewers are subscribing and unsubscribing to your channel,

- When YouTube removes spam subscribers from your channel.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6392782

How subscribers work (FAQ)

Does YouTube automatically unsubscribe users from channels?

Do all of my videos show up in my subscribers' Subscription feeds?

Why are my subscribers telling me my videos aren’t showing up in their Subs feed?

How does YouTube count subscribers?

Do closed accounts count toward my subscriber count?

Do spam accounts count toward my subscriber count?

Why is my subscriber count changing or dropping?

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7280746

Report a YouTube issue

Report an issue related to your channel subscribers

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/4347644

YouTube Terms of Service

https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms

Dr. Mohammad Al-Thunibat

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