# re: YouTube copyright 

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/re-youtube-copyright/326377>\
**Category:** Discussion & Solutions\
**Tags:** help\
**Created:** [October 11, 2026, 12:37pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/re-youtube-copyright/326377 "2026-10-11T12:37:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![none\_buns](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/none_buns/32/167625_2.png) [@none\_buns](https://onehack.st/u/none_buns)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2026, 12:37pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/re-youtube-copyright/326377/1 "2026-10-11T12:37:24Z")

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does anyone know how channels that are basically playing music like radio earn money? how do they even get monetized from it when there are strict copyright laws? i keep seeing these channels around so it must be profitable. im nosy i want to know how  
thanks

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**Author:** ![SRZ](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/srz/32/146132_2.png) [@SRZ](https://onehack.st/u/SRZ)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2026, 8:10pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/re-youtube-copyright/326377/2 "2026-10-11T20:10:26Z")

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@none_buns — they are not dodging the copyright check. They are **exempt** from it, and YouTube wrote the switch itself.

**🎯 The allowlist.** A rights holder opens Studio Content Manager, pastes your channel’s 24-character `UC` id, and Content ID stops claiming your videos. Channels only, not single tracks. [Exempt channels from Content ID claims](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6070344)

**🏷 The music libraries call it safelisting.** [Epidemic Sound](https://www.epidemicsound.com/how-it-works/music-licensing/what-is-safelisting/) spells it out: safelisting ties your channel to your account, so content published while subscribed **“remains cleared forever.”** That is the whole thing — a whitelist, not a secret.

**💰 And a claim is not a takedown.** YouTube says a claim can **block, monetize or track** the video, and **“monetize” is the most common policy applied to music claims**. So a claimed music video keeps running ads — with the money routed to the owner. [Learn about copyright claims](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6013276)

**🤝 Want the split for yourself?** [Creator Music](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12657860) lets you use an eligible track and _split that video’s revenue with the rights holders_ — switched on automatically during the upload checks.

**🏢 Now the part that answers “I keep seeing these channels”.** The big ones are not uploaders. **Lofi Girl is Lofi Records** — a label with its own publishing arm — and **Warner Chappell Music France administers that catalogue**. 14 million subscribers, 30,000–60,000 listening at any given moment. [The deal, in trade press](https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/02/12/wcm-france-admin-publishing-deal-lofi-records/)

**📋 The rulebook under all of it:** [monetisation policies](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1311392) · [reused content](https://support.google.com/youtube/community-guide/271248162/) · [restrictions on claimed music](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6364458).