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Building trust on YouTube: ‘Captured with a camera’ disclosure

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It’s important for viewers to trust what they see on YouTube. That’s why you’ll find the “Captured with a camera” disclosure in the “How this content was made” section in the expanded description of some videos. It signifies that the creator used specific technology to verify their video’s origin and confirm its audio and visuals haven’t been altered. This, along with our policy on altered and synthetic content, is part of YouTube’s efforts to increase transparency.

How it works

Verification technology: To get this additional disclosure, creators must use specific technology (certain cameras, software, or mobile apps) that attaches secure metadata to the piece of content. This metadata verifies the video’s origin and whether or not its audio and visuals have been altered.
C2PA standards: This technology is based on an open standard for content origin and authenticity developed by the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA). This standard allows users ways to understand the authenticity and origin of different types of media like images, videos, and audio.

How to get ‘Captured with a camera’ disclosure

For “captured with a camera” to appear in the expanded description, creators must use tools with built-in C2PA support (version 2.1 or higher) to capture their videos. This allows the tools to add special information, metadata, to the video file, confirming its authenticity. YouTube will relay the information that the content was “Captured with a camera,” and apply the disclosure when it detects this metadata. The content must also not have edits to sound or visuals. This disclosure indicates that the content was captured using a camera or other recording device with no edits to sounds or visuals.

What edits to avoid

To ensure the “Captured with a camera” can be applied, avoid these types of edits:

Edits that break the chain of provenance, or make it impossible to trace the video back to its original source. For example, if you capture an image with C2PA metadata and then save it to your phone’s photo album that doesn’t support C2PA v2.1 or higher, that may break the chain of provenance.
Significant alterations to the video’s core nature or content, including its sounds or visuals.
Edits that make the video incompatible with C2PA standards (version 2.1 and above).

Limitations

“Captured with a camera” only appears if a creator opts to use C2PA technology during filming. If it’s missing, it doesn’t mean the content has modified audio or visuals.

Note: This feature is separate from our existing altered and synthetic disclosures.

The metadata that leads to a “Captured with a camera” disclosure is made by a 3rd party (for example, a camera manufacturer). This means there is some risk that someone could take a photo of another screen showing synthetic content. Because the other screen shows an image that has been modified, it wouldn’t be eligible for the “Captured with a camera” disclosure. This issue is called “air-gapping.” Camera manufacturers will continue to develop detection measures to prevent “air-gapping,” but the sophistication of those detection measures may vary in the near term.

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Community Guidelines strike basics on YouTube

This article is about Community Guidelines strikes. To find info about copyright strikes, which are different from Community Guidelines strikes, go to our copyright strike basics.

Community Guidelines are the rules of the road for how to behave on YouTube. These policies apply to all types of content on our platform, including unlisted and private content, comments, links, Community posts, and thumbnails. This list isn’t complete. If your content violates our Community Guidelines, your channel will get a strike.

Note: We may remove content for reasons other than Community Guidelines violations. For example, a first-party privacy complaint or a court order. In these cases, your channel won’t get a strike.

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When you get a strike, you’re told via email. You can also choose to have notifications sent to you through your mobile and computer notifications, and in your channel settings. We’ll also tell you:

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If your content violates our Community Guidelines, here’s how it affects your channel:

Warning

We understand mistakes happen and you don’t mean to violate our policies — that’s why the first violation is typically only a warning. To have this warning expire after 90 days, you can take a policy training. However, if your content violates the same policy within that 90 day window, the warning will not expire and your channel will be given a strike.

Sometimes a single case of severe abuse will result in channel termination without warning. If you think we made a mistake, you can submit an appeal.

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Policy trainings are short in-product educational experiences based on the specific Community Guidelines policy you’ve violated.

If you receive a Community Guidelines warning, you can access the policy training from your Studio account anywhere you typically check your policy violations. This includes the Studio dashboard and the Content tab. You’ll also see a link to open the training from the email and banner notifications. Note: Not all Community Guidelines warnings are eligible for policy trainings.

If you complete an optional policy training, your warning will expire after 90 days. The 90 day period starts from when the training is completed, not when the warning is issued. If you violate a different policy after completing the training, you will get another warning.

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If we find your content doesn’t follow our policies for a second time, you’ll get a strike.

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Your scheduled public content is set to “private” for the penalty period duration. You have to reschedule it when the freeze period ends.

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After the 1-week period, we restore full privileges automatically, but the strike remains on your channel for 90 days.

A strike may also result in losing access to advanced features. Learn more about how to regain access.

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If you get a second strike within the same 90-day period as your first strike, you will not be allowed to post content for 2 weeks. If there are no further issues, after the 2-week period, we restore full privileges automatically. Each strike will not expire until 90 days from the time it was issued.

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