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There’s no summer holidays in tech, at least not this week. There are multiple updates for YouTube, plus new features for Twitch, Threads, Facebook, Canva, Google Search, Google Ads Manager, Google Photos, and more. I suspect it has to do with getting features out before June 30th, the end of Q2 and the start of the July 4th holiday week in the US. Read on for this week’s details. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week YouTube Studio Advanced Analytics improvements Expanded access and more languages for YouTube autodubbing. YouTube Search AI-powered results includes a carousel of clips for travel and shopping content. YouTube Inspiration (AI) tab coming to Europe and Dream Screen AI video generation is coming to the UK. YouTube will soon prohibit under-16s from livestreaming. Twitch Partners can apply to appear on the Front Page. The new Sofiana app turns journalism and academic articles into TikTok scripts. Edits by Instagram (the video e...

The Copyright tab in YouTube Studio gives Partners access to the  Copyright Match tool , which lets you see where your videos have been re-uploaded on YouTube. Now all creators should be able to access the copyright tab in YouTube Studio  to keep track of your copyright takedown requests. If your channel is in the YouTube Partner Program, and one of your videos was re-uploaded without your permission, use the Copyright Match tool to easily contact the uploader or submit a DMCA takedown notice. Note that this is not the same as Content ID, and there is no option to monetize those uploads.  If your channel is  not in the YouTube Partner Program  you will only have access to a detailed history of previous copyright takedown request and a link to the copyright complaint webform. Note that there are some limitations: Only the first channel to upload the video to YouTube will see the reports . YouTube has no way to verify that the f...

While a lot of the tech chatter this week was about Apple’s iPhone event, Google announced updates to Google+, YouTube Kids, Hangouts Meet and more. And there was bad news for Inbox users and folks concerned about copyright laws. Read on... This week three controversial copyright-related proposals were approved by the European Parliament: Article 11, which requires “commercial platforms” to have a license to link to a news article; Article 12a, which prohibits posting your own photos or videos of sports matches; and Article 13, which requires large platforms to use copyright filters to examine everything uploaded for possible infringement. The details have not been fully worked out yet so the fight goes on .  Google+ has made it easier to share a file from your Google Drive account. All you need to do is click the Drive icon when creating a post to access all your Drive folders and files. This feature is only available for Google+ Profiles, not Google+ Pages.  If you h...

This useful article is by YouTube forum Rising Star Top ContributorLeo Wattenberg and was originally posted in the YouTube Creators help forum.  He kindly granted me permission to re-post it here.  TOC preamble and disclaimer the most important rule about creative commons licences licence laundering links to materials see also footnotes