Before a claim can be created, the copyright holder would need to register their copyrighted content as an asset.
Content ID has 6 types of assets which are:
- Web (Visual)
- TV Episode (Visual)
- Movie (Visual)
- Music Video (Visual)
- Sound Recording (Audio)
- Composition (Audio)
As a publisher, we register composition assets - much in the same way we register works to societies.
Composition assets are embedded into Sound Recording assets via the ISRC code (usually created by the label/distributor) which are then attached to videos containing usages of the specific work. Uploaded videos can contain multiple assets and therefore multiple claims (an album compilation for example).
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