What can you not show on YouTube video?

What kind of things cannot be shown on camera when monetizing a video for YouTube? When it comes to unboxings, news showing upcoming products (you'd be saying or showing a photo of the product), I tried to read YouTube's guidelines, but they're so vague.

products youtube videos

asked Dec 05 '12 at 22:55

phototypo
866●10●16●29

edited Dec 06 '12 at 02:17

Fogarty ♦♦
11.7k●12●27●38

3 Answers:

oldest newest most voted

anything copyrighted cant be shown directly, for example you cant play upload a clip from CNN, but you can have CNN playing on a tv that you are reviewing.

You also cant show porn, or instructions on making explosives

you can show logos and many other things present in the real world that consumers commonly buy.

answered Dec 05 '12 at 22:59

Razor512
15.6k●34●80●242

0	Basically, anything you can flag a video for (There's sub-categories to): answered Dec 06 '12 at 06:25 Mattophobia ♦♦ 7.0k●73●122●206

Basically anything that is not your own/you do not have permission to use. If it contains a song like Lady Gaga's Poker Face, You cannot monetize on it. Also, whatever causes a video to be flagged like the reasons above will also disqualify it from being monetized as well.

answered Dec 06 '12 at 19:49

ubaksh11
206●13●15●21

Your answer

toggle preview

community wiki

Follow this question

By Email:

Once you sign in you will be able to subscribe for any updates here

By RSS:

Answers

Answers and Comments

Markdown Basics

*italic* or __italic__
**bold** or __bold__
link:[text](http://url.com/ "title")
image?![alt text](/path/img.jpg "title")
numbered list: 1. Foo 2. Bar
to add a line break simply add two spaces to where you would like the new line to be.
basic HTML tags are also supported

learn more about Markdown