The Copyright Checker is a built-in Viral Vue Pro feature that automatically scans for potential unauthorized use of your Amazon Influencer videos, helping you protect your content without spending hours searching for copies yourself.
Whether someone reuploads your entire video or uses just a few seconds of your footage, the Copyright Checker can detect potential matches and flag them for review.
Instead of wondering whether brands or other sellers are using your content without permission, you'll have one place to see who may be using your videos, what content was detected, and what you can do about it.
Why It Matters
Creating quality Amazon Influencer videos requires time, research, filming, and editing. Unfortunately, some brands and sellers may reuse creator content without asking permission or purchasing usage rights.
Without a way to monitor your videos, it's easy to:
- Miss unauthorized reuploads of your original content
- Overlook brands using short clips from your videos
- Spend hours manually searching for copied content
- Lose potential opportunities to negotiate video usage rights
- Struggle to identify which videos need your attention
The Copyright Checker does the monitoring for you. It automatically detects potential matches and organizes them in one dashboard, so you can review the evidence and decide what action to take.
How to Use Copyright Checker
1. Open the Copyright Checker.
Log in to your Viral Vue web app and select Copyright from the navigation menu.
The feature is available to Viral Vue Pro users and runs automatically in the background. No manual scanning is required.
2. Review your flagged videos.
Your Copyright dashboard displays videos that have been flagged for potential unauthorized use.
For each detection, you can review:
- Status – Whether the detection has been reviewed or remains unresolved
- Type – How your content may have been reused
- Who – The account associated with the detected video
- Your Video – Your original content
- Detected Video – The video containing the potential match
3. Understand the detection types.
The Copyright Checker identifies different types of content reuse:
- Partial Reuse – Someone takes portions of your video, such as short clips or snippets, and incorporates them into another video.
- Full Reupload – Someone copies and uploads your original video, sometimes with minor changes or a shorter duration.
Both types can be flagged for review, even when the detected video isn't identical in length to your original.
4. Click View Details.
Select View Details on any flagged video to investigate the potential match.
You'll see a Confidence Score, indicating how strongly the system believes the detected video matches your original content.
You can also play both videos to compare the footage and determine whether the reuse was authorized.
5. Update the detection status.
After reviewing the videos, select the appropriate status:
- Correct – The detection is accurate and the content matches your video.
- Allowed Usage – You previously gave permission or sold the rights to use your video.
- Bad Detection – The system flagged a video that doesn't actually match your content.
- Video Unavailable – The detected video has been removed, deleted, or is no longer accessible.
You can also add optional notes to keep track of your findings or any actions you've taken.
6. Decide how to handle unauthorized usage.
If you confirm that someone is using your content without permission, you have two main options.
Option A: Report the video
- Open the detected video
- Expand it to full screen
- Click the flag icon in the upper-right corner
- Select Report
- Follow the available reporting process for potential copyright infringement
This is a direct way to flag the content to Amazon for review.
Option B: Contact the brand or seller
If you'd prefer to give the brand an opportunity to resolve the issue first, you can contact them directly.
- Open the product associated with the detected video
- Check whether the brand has an active Creator Connections campaign
- If available, use Creator Connections to message the seller
- Otherwise, look for contact information through the seller's website or business contact page
You can request that the brand remove your content or discuss purchasing the appropriate video usage rights.
If the issue remains unresolved, you can choose to report the video.
7. Continue monitoring your dashboard.
The Copyright Checker automatically runs in the background, so there's no need to manually initiate scans.
Simply return to your Copyright dashboard to review new detections, update statuses, and follow up on unresolved cases.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Can it detect someone using only a small part of my video?
Yes. The feature is designed to detect both full video reuploads and partial reuse, including short snippets that have been edited or combined with other footage.
Does Viral Vue automatically report copyright infringement?
No. Viral Vue automatically detects potential matches, but you decide whether to contact the brand, report the video, or mark the usage as authorized.
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