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September 27

duplicate videos on youtube

since the youtube website itself doesn't seem much help with user enquiries, I thought it best to ask here as well, in case anyone knows about this. I've noticed that one of my video uploads is getting a lot more attention than the rest, and being on a completely different subject from anything else on my channel, getting that attention from a totally different group of people. I am tempted, then, to create more of that subject to upload, but rather than flood my existing channel, which is mostly dedicated to one area of specialist interest, I want to create a second channel and post them there. However, at that point I'd want to upload the original to it as well. I am wondering how that would go, with me effectively uploading two identical copies of the same video on two different channels, is this something that would be acceptable to the website or not?

213.104.128.16 (talk) 16:16, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

This archived question from May addresses some of the issues around having two channels, but doesn't answer the question about duplicating videos on two of your channels. It does contain a link to a Youtube Google forum where you could ask this question and maybe find a Youtube user who has been in this situation or who knows the answer. - Karenjc (talk) 17:36, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I seriously doubt that YouTube would get angry with you or anything. I used to be a very active user on YT a few years back, for a good chunk of time. Take Video Game Music uploads for instance. User A uploads the SNES Super Mario World Athletic Theme, and uses the game's cover as the picture. User B also wants to upload this track... what else do they have to use than the cover art of the game? Guess they could use official art or something they've drawn themselves, but there's nothing stopping them from using the cover art; it's not like User A has any ownership over it. So User B uploads seemingly the same video. This happens all the time with other types of videos too. YouTube themselves don't really care as long as your video complies with the rules and they are still making money. The users are a whole other group, though. Users may find having multiples of videos be confusing, especially if the video is something quite unique, and the channels aren't linked. If the channels are linked, then there might not be much trouble. If they aren't, then there could be some issues with users contacting you ("User Z") about your other account ("User Y"): "Hey, User Z... I just noticed there's this guy named User Y and he stole your video!" - stuff like that. I would reccomend that you link in the description of the video something like "See <secondchannel> for more videos on this topic" or something like that. If you want them completely separate, then you can take the risk, and if anything disagreeable happens then you can always delete the original video. Good luck! --.Yellow1996.^(ЬMИED¡) 17:38, 27 September 2013 (UTC)