YouTube policies
Curious about what type of content will be age-restricted? Want to know how to make sure your video doesn't violate our policies? Use this page to find the answers, and learn more about the principles behind our Community Guidelines
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Best practices for creators
- How YouTube evaluates Educational, Documentary, Scientific & Artistic (EDSA) content
- Creator responsibility
- Best practices for content with children
- Reporting tools & policies for YouTube safety
- Content policies for YouTube Kids
- Disclosing use of altered or synthetic content
- Understanding ‘How this content was made’ disclosures on YouTube
- Building trust on YouTube: ‘Captured with a camera’ disclosure
- Your content & third-party training
Spam & deceptive practices
Sensitive content
Violent or dangerous content
Regulated goods
Misinformation policies
Legal policies
- Copyright
- Trademark
- Counterfeit
- Defamation
- Stored music policy
- Other legal complaints
- Other legal issues
- Report a legal issue with the conversational AI tool, Explore more topics, auto-generated quizzes, comment topics, 2023 recap, search overviews, video answers, or video summaries
- YouTube Accessibility Plan (Canada)
