Copyright
In effect since August 20, 2026.
This is the most important page on the site for anyone who makes a living cutting other people's videos. Read it before you publish.
1. Other people's videos have an owner
Every video published on YouTube belongs to whoever created it, even if it is public and free. Watching is free; republishing pieces of it is another matter.
In practice there are three situations, and it is worth knowing which one you are in.
2. The three situations
You have permission
This is the safe situation. The creator said in writing that you can cut, whether in a video, in the channel description, in a public document or in an email to you. Keep that proof.
At upar.io/clipar we have gathered more than two hundred channels that live with clips made by other people, with each one's rules. It is a starting point, not a guarantee.
The creator tolerates it, but did not authorize it
This is most cases. There are dozens of clip channels that have been up for years and none of them was taken down. That points to tolerance, and tolerance can end whenever the creator decides, without notice. That is what happened to the people who were clipping PodpahTV until March 2025.
The creator does not allow it
Some actively ask for removal. Clipping those channels is a waste of time, and it piles up strikes that take down your entire channel.
3. What Brazilian law says
Law 9.610/98 allows, in article 46, the quotation of excerpts for study, criticism or debate, as long as the work and the author are identified and the use is proportionate.
A thirty-second clip with your commentary over it, crediting the channel and linking to the full episode, has a quotation argument. A thirty-second clip with nothing added, published to make money, does not.
The difference is in what you add.
4. What the platforms do
YouTube
Two different systems, which people tend to mix up:
- Content ID: identifies the material automatically. The owner chooses between blocking it, monetizing on top of your video or just tracking it. It does not punish the channel.
- Copyright strike: this is the owner asking for removal. Three strikes and the channel is terminated, along with all its videos.
The first one takes away your revenue. The second one takes away your channel.
TikTok and Instagram
They remove the video when it is reported and pile up records on the account. Repetition leads to reduced reach and, at the limit, to termination.
5. How to reduce the risk
- Add something of your own. Commentary, reaction, context, text on screen. That is what separates quotation from copying.
- Always credit. The channel name in the video and a link to the full episode in the description.
- Do not clip sports broadcasts. Match broadcasting rights are sold separately and are the most heavily policed there is. Prefer reaction and commentary.
- Do not use a whole song. Background music triggers Content ID on its own.
- Do not pass yourself off as the creator. Make it clear that yours is a clips channel.
- Ask for permission in writing. A short email that gets answered is already proof.
6. If you get a strike
- Do not panic: one strike does not end a channel, three do.
- Check whether it is Content ID or a copyright strike. They are different things.
- If it was a mistake, dispute it within the deadline, explaining why the use is legitimate.
- If it was not, take the video down and do not go back to that channel.
- Strikes expire in 90 days, as long as you do not pile up others.
7. If you are a creator and do not want to be clipped
If you got here because you found clips of yours made with our tool and you do not authorize that, write to contato@upar.io with your channel address. We put the channel on the list of those who do not authorize it, and it starts showing up that way for every user.
8. What we do not do
We do not check whether you have the rights to the video you submitted. We have no way of doing that, and no tool on the market does. What we do is publish the information that helps you decide, which is the channel list and this page.