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I believe the difference is that you “move on with your life” which I assume means you take down the video. If you had written/produced the song and were trying

I believe the difference is that you “move on with your life” which I assume means you take down the video. If you had written/produced the song and were trying to monetize it, it would be a different story. There was an article on HN recently where someone remixed a song they found on youtube and then used the remix to claim they had the copyright. YT assigned the rights of the ad revenue to the claimant despite the fact that the rightful author denied all allegations.

gbuk2013 8y ago
Your belief is somewhat misplaced. ;) I just mean I leave the video with the claimant monetising it. It is very rare that they would chose to block the audio (except for some that are blocked only in Germany which has really insane copyright laws). So I just leave them as they are, without taking them down. But you are right in that because I do it for love rather than money, I am in a much more comfortable position. As I mentioned in the comments below, there is the option to appeal it to a point they would have to sue you. If you are sure that you own the copyright that is an option. This may be of limited comfort if you happen to live in a jurisdiction with a f’d-up legal system (e.g. the US) but that’s not Google’s fault. That said, there is apparently some sort of underhand agreement between Google and some major music publishers that Google will just take down the content privately with no appeal. That sucks, but it’s not what is happening here, I don’t think.