If you are just posting cover versions for fun, then you really should be able to ignore it.
As CT says:
Cheers,
Keith
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Michael, I recall there being posts on the Topic before. May be worth summarising and including in the AVOYP sub-category, pinned for easy reference. That said, given the volume of posts in AVOYP, it doesnāt come up as a concern that often.
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Thatās the feeling, when you know nothing about these issues. Thanks for sharing your experience. Itās like now I know that it happens to others too and thereās nothing to really worry about.
As @CT
And as far as I can understand @MAT1953 I see no harm for us beginners to post our covers. The issue is definetely nasty for people posting their original work.
Anyway itās been very interesting for me to understand how things work, thanks to @Majik for the clear explanation and to anybody else for their points of view.
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At the end of the day Iām an anarchist regarding most things, and certainly all things musical. I will play a clone tele, or pedal and take your song, which is a jumble of notes with an optional word salad, and do my thing with it/them. If I change a song by --letās say 10%, I donāt feel a need to even give you any credit. If I do, itās because I want to. My Sweet Lord, Free Falling, and many other songs are knocked off, recorded with new twists, and retitled, almost daily. What the heck is new under the sun with a I-IV-V progression? Oh wow, someone added a iv, how awesome.
Iām unapologetic about it too. Eff Betty Crocker if I add another egg and more vanilla to the cake batter. 
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David @DavidP
I do think something along the lines would be helpful for those of us that are new to all of this getting some communication from YT would cause some concern.
As it did to @Silvia80
Michael
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Basically, Youtube bots gave you a compliment saying
āThat sounds enough like the original for us to make sureyou donāt earn money out of itā.
Really, take it as a compliment 
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It did, but itās vanished now and I canāt remember. I recognised it as a record label though. They identified it as āwhat child is thisā - apparently an 1800s song set to the tune of Greensleeves and performed and recorded many, many times.
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Thatās some estate management to hold on a 19th century song, wow!
Hope youāre well sir 
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Good to see you back around Mark, Iām great, are you going to the next OM?
Iāve a seat front and centre in the audience this time around and looking forward to cracking open a beer from the beginning rather than after playing!!
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Sounds like a plan !
As to the whole YT copyrights thing, its never bothered or worried me and I have had a few get flagged. I am not after monetization anyway, its just a vehicle to share music here at the end of the day.
I have never had anything taken down due to such an āinfringementsā on YT. The only place that happened was on Soundcloud where a number of my early songs were blocked due to copyright but its been a while since I posted there, so do not know what the current situation is in that respect.
I agree with Lieven, if you get flagged see it as a compliment and pat yourself on the back, for a job well done !
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Uploaded today a video to YT for a AVOYP, just need to add some words before posting it.
However I got my first copyright claim, not a strike I think.
Thought I would post up a couple of screen shots for anybody like me who has not come across it before.
The Copyright +1 on the second screenshot I presume means there is one claim, is it possible for others to make a claim as well?
Donāt think I need to take any action but at least the ābotsā must have thought it sounded like something!!!
Michael
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