Many livestream owners run into the frustrating experience of having their livestream suspended on YouTube for their policy violations. It may be that the uploader was unaware of the claimed content before uploading it, the content was just recently claimed by the copyright owner, or that the content represented was identical to other copyrighted content.
If this has happened to you or you would like to prepare for the circumstance, then read on below to learn how to fix a suspended livestream on YouTube for policy violations:
1) Check Yellow Error Banner in Studio
The first step would be to visit your YouTube Studio and look at the yellow notification banner for a detailed reason as to reason why.
Many times the livestream suspension will be a temporary. However, it is possible that certain content can mute indefinitely or completely remove your livestream. Remain vigilant in the first few days of your livestream to ensure that any content will not interfere with your stream playback.
2) Pause and Remove Copyrighted Content
In the case of copyrighted audio, you will want to head over to your media software player and stop playing the audio. This is because the livestream will not resume until the copyrighted audio ceases. As for copyrighted video, you may have to completely remove the media and edit it out or replace it before going live again.
If you have viewers, you may want to wait until the stream resumes to make finding the content or audio easier, then work backwards from that checkpoint to see where it stopped to prepare removal. If you do not have viewers, then play around by starting the video or music at where you believe to be copyrighted and wait for the suspension to appear again so that you know what to remove. Otherwise, finish the livestream and upload the content into a separate unlisted video upload to detect further copyright discrepancies.
Keep in mind that the discrepancy between the livestream video output on YouTube and the real-time livestreaming can vary between bitrates and services, making it hard to detect exactly where the livestream was blocked.
3) Wait for Stream to Resume and Audit
Once complete, the livestream will resume itself and continue to function as normal. In most cases, the livestream will resume once the livestream detects continuous non-copyrighted audio.
It is important to monitor your livestream for any further copyright suspensions. Continuously playing copyrighted content might result in a longer suspension or permanent ban on your channel.
In rare cases, copyrighted audio will slip past the copyright tool, only to be detected later during the livestream. To prevent this, run a test-run livestream by setting the privacy to "unlisted" before setting it to public. Your channel will not receive any strikes unless the video is set to public and warnings do not cause any issues to the functionality of your channel.
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