Legal Complaints and Court Orders
If you feel that certain content on the site violates your rights or applicable laws, you may submit a legal complaint under our trademark, defamation, counterfeit, or other legal complaint flows. If you have a court order against an uploader, you may attach a copy of the court order in response to the autoreply that you receive after you file the appropriate legal complaint. Each court order is examined and evaluated based on a set of regional and global criteria.
Bear in mind that you also have other resources to bring content to our attention. For example, if you feel that the content does not comply with our Community Guidelines, please flag it. Also, consider whether the video meets the standards for removal under our privacy or harassment policy before filing a legal complaint.
Circumvention of Technological Measures
When we say circumvention of technological measures, we're referring to tools that allow users to evade a software's licensing protocol. This can mean serial numbers, keygens, passwords and other methods to hack software or games.
What is the difference between CTM and copyright?
CTM is a tool that will give users the means to access software. Copyright is concerned with the depiction of the software or the means to acquire it. If the software's interface is in the video, or there's a download link to the software in the video or video description, you may wish to file a copyright takedown notice.
If you believe that you have a valid CTM claim, please fill in our webform.
Submit a Circumvention of Technological Measures complaint
Captioning
If you've received a notice informing you that your video is in violation of the Communications and Video Accessibility Act, you may have uploaded content that was originally shown on TV with captions. The Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) requires that all pre-recorded video programming that is captioned on TV is also captioned on the Internet. If you believe that you're exempt from the CVAA requirement, you may select a certification for your content.
If you believe that a video is required by the CVAA to contain captions, but the uploader has not made captions available, please submit a request via webform.
Terrorist Content Online Regulation ('TCO')
If you find content that you think violates our Community Guidelines and want to submit it for review, report the content. To learn more about YouTube's policies, you can read our Community Guidelines. You can also report content if you believe that it should be removed for legal reasons.
If you're a designated government competent authority, you can contact YouTube to learn how to get in touch with the point of contact for removal orders under Article 3 TCO. For this purpose, Google accepts communications in English.
For more information about the EU Terrorist Content Online Regulation (EU 2021/784), please read the official EU Regulation text.
YouTube’s compliance with An Coimisiún na Meán's Online Safety Code
An Coimisiún na Meán's Online Safety Code, which implements the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive, applies to video-sharing platform services (VSPs) established in Ireland. It sets rules for VSPs to restrict certain categories of content, to give users the ability to report and flag such content, to protect children from content which may impair their physical, mental, or moral development, and to give parents the tools to help them stay safe.
YouTube takes its obligations to comply with An Coimisiún na Meán's Online Safety Code seriously. Click here to make a complaint about our implementation of measures relating to age assurance, content rating, parental controls, and reporting and flagging. We will review your report and respond as soon as appropriate, though some more complex cases may take longer. We may also reach out for more information from you.
European Media Freedom Act
This information is published pursuant to Article 18(2) of the European Media Freedom Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1083, EMFA). The self-declarations listed below have been provided by Media Service Providers under the procedure set out in Article 18(1) EMFA. Publication of this information does not indicate acceptance of the declaration by YouTube, nor should it be understood as an endorsement of the listed organizations. The content of these declarations remains the sole responsibility of the respective media service providers.
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| Channel Name | National Regulatory Authority |
|---|---|
| Le Grand Cactus-RTBF | Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel |
| Les Niouzz | Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel |
| RTBF Archives | Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel |
| RTBF Info | Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel |
| RTBF iXPé | Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel |
| RTBFSport | Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel |
| SPIT | Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel |
| Tarmac | Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel |
| Tipik-RTBF | Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel |
| Vews-RTBF | Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel |
| orfkontext | Kommunikationsbehörde Austria |