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How Content ID works

Understand YouTube rights management The features described in this article are available only to partners who use YouTube’s Content Manager to manage their copyrighted content.

The YouTube system for managing your intellectual property consists of three major components:

  • The YouTube rights management system identifies the owners and administrators of your intellectual property and defines …

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Manage your rights

The articles in this section are for partners who use YouTube’s Content ID matching system. You upload content to the content management system to create assets, with each asset representing the rights embodied in a copyrighted work, such as a sound recording, music video, or composition. Videos that contain copyrighted works are then linked to …

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Using the CMS Uploader

YouTube CMS Uploader The YouTube CMS Uploader will no longer be supported as of mid-2015. We recommend delivering metadata using spreadsheet templates rather than CMS Uploader.

The YouTube CMS Uploader is a downloadable application that lets you quickly upload assets from your desktop to YouTube Content Manager (CMS). It provides a graphical user interface that …

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Using an Aspera dropbox

Generate a Secure Shell (SSH) key pair for an Aspera dropbox The features described in this article are available only to partners who use YouTube’s Content Manager to manage their copyrighted content.

YouTube requires that you connect to your YouTube dropbox using a Secure Shell (SSH) connection. SSH is a network protocol that ensures secure …

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Using an SFTP dropbox

Generate a Secure Shell (SSH) key pair for an SFTP dropbox The features described in this article are available only to partners who use YouTube’s Content Manager to manage their copyrighted content.

YouTube requires that you connect to your YouTube dropbox using a Secure Shell (SSH) connection. SSH is a network protocol that ensures secure …

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Complete feed samples

Complete feed samples The features described in this article are available only to partners who use YouTube’s Content Manager to manage their copyrighted content.

The sections below provide samples of complete feeds that upload different types of data. Several of the samples also show the status report you’d receive when YouTube processes the feed.

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XML element definitions

XML element definitions The features described in this article are available only to partners who use YouTube’s Content Manager to manage their copyrighted content.

This article defines each of the supported XML elements in the YouTube Content and Rights Administration feed. The elements are arranged into categories based on the types of objects they relate …

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Appendixes

XML element definitions Complete feed samples Expected metadata fields by asset type The features described in this article are available only to partners who use YouTube’s Content Manager to manage their copyrighted content.

The following lists identify expected metadata fields for each asset type that YouTube supports. Note that YouTube will still process your feed …

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