COPYRIGHT

THE RIGHTS, THE MONEY, THE CONTENT ECONOMY.

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Ownership. Permission. The price of reuse.

The Rights Desk

Who gets paid when
content gets used again?

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Income, enforcement & distribution

What the source measures

2 reports

Reported figures with their own periods and denominators. Copyright claims, takedowns and judicial findings are different measures.

Google / YouTube — Copyright Transparency Report, 2025 data

>90%

2025 · Reported 2026

YouTube reports that rights holders chose monetization for over 90% of 2025 Content ID claims. This describes a platform rights-management choice, not a court finding of infringement, a fair-use ruling or the share of all videos that were claimed.

Denominator: all YouTube Content ID claims made in 2025, not all videos or DMCA removal notices. A video can receive multiple claims. The source reports more than 90%, not exactly 90%; the exact share and the composition of the remainder are unknown. The report describes an early-2026 snapshot. Its exact publication day was not verified, so the report date is given as a year only.

CISAC — Global Collections Report 2025

€13.97bn

2024 · Reported Nov 6, 2025

Collections grew 6.6% in 2024. Digital was the largest source, followed by TV and radio, then live and background uses. Bars show only these three leading sources; amounts and shares are rounded as reported and do not exhaust the total.

CISAC's 2025 report covers 2024 collections reported by 228 authors' societies in 111 countries. Music accounts for about 90% of this total. These are collective authors' royalties, not all IP licensing revenue, the size of the content economy or individual creators' take-home pay. The release text is dated November 6, 2025; the page header is November 5.

The Rights Desk / Evidence

Report2026

Content ID claims chosen for monetization

YouTube reports that rights holders chose monetization for over 90% of 2025 Content ID claims. This describes a platform rights-management choice, not a court finding of infringement, a fair-use ruling or the share of all videos that were claimed.

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>90%2025

Scope & limitations

Denominator: all YouTube Content ID claims made in 2025, not all videos or DMCA removal notices. A video can receive multiple claims. The source reports more than 90%, not exactly 90%; the exact share and the composition of the remainder are unknown. The report describes an early-2026 snapshot. Its exact publication day was not verified, so the report date is given as a year only.

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Google / YouTube — Copyright Transparency Report, 2025 data

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Source checked Oct 19, 2026. The event date describes this record, not the current status of a contract or case.

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