tl;dr: "The pair falsely represented to YouTube and an intermediary company identified only by the initials A.R. that they were the owners of the music and wer

tl;dr: "The pair falsely represented to YouTube and an intermediary company identified only by the initials A.R. that they were the owners of the music and were entitled to collect “royalty payments” from their use on YouTube. In some cases the defendants used forged documents claiming to be from artists declaring that the pair had the rights to monetize their music."