Currently Youtube's system encourages this behavior by offering the possibility of profit[1] without any risk. There are no consequences for making false claims

Currently Youtube's system encourages this behavior by offering the possibility of profit[1] without any risk. There are no consequences for making false claims (even when the claim is very obviously fraudulent). There isn't even any risk of Google banning the account, while creators are given "strikes"[3] against their account. Google is incentivizing fraud wile driving away a lot of talented creators. The only way this can be fixed is by reversing the incentives. There has to be consequences for making false claims. There must be some amount of risk when making a claim. Also, Google could at least improve the situation easily by e.g. holding a video's revenue in escrow until the claim is fully resolved instead of giving the money t to the claimant immediately (I call that "theft"). [1] YT allows successful claims to force monetization on a video and take the resulting revenue. There are numerous examples of e.g. musicians having their own music claimed, or people losing the income from multi-hour educational videos[2] because ContentID matched 13 seconds of random footage. [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_dhZjLxUzw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_dhZjLxUzw [3] On the 3rd strike, Google automatically delete their entire YT channel and a the "offender" is permanently banned of from all Google services. TL;DR - video [2] has an outstanding explanation of YT's takedown system from a creator's perspective (YT took down His 4 hour thematic analysis of Made In Abyss).