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YouTube launches improved ‘eraser’ tool to remove music that would get a copyright strike

YouTube has launched an enhanced eraser tool to assist creators in removing copyrighted music with minimal impact.

YouTube has launched an enhanced eraser tool to assist creators in removing copyrighted music with minimal impact to the poster’s video itself. “Erase song” was previously available as a beta feature to remove protected content on the Google-owned video-sharing platform but it wasn’t quite up to the required performance standard. The platform, which is trying new techniques to block third-party apps that allow users to skip ads on videos, has warned that the new tool isn’t perfect and that sometimes the algorithm might fail to remove just the copyrighted track.

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