Let's talk a little bit briefly again about the copyright rules of YouTube. If you break the rules on YouTube, you get three strikes, and you're out. You're not just out, but they barred you from ever starting another channel again the rest of your life. And if they ever find out that you somehow weaseled your way around that rule and did start another channel, they just shut it down immediately. I've heard stories of people trying to do that, and the channels did get shut down pretty futile, so much easier to actually just follow the rules. And the thing is YouTube, Google, the owners of the site, they are constantly changing the rules, and they oftentimes don't even tell you that they've changed them.

They just expect that you know that you've been researching the new rules and that you're aware of them for the first strike, they limit a lot of your things. Usually they limit your ability to make videos to earn money, they might have changed the rules now actually, so that that actually happens now a strike too, but it's one of the first but certainly by strike through, you're done. You're out. They don't care how many subscribers you have, you could have 10 million of your channels gone overnight, all the work you've done so you better read that community guidelines backwards and forwards. Make sure you know what the rules are in your follow. with them.

Same goes for copyright. You know, if you're if you're using stuff you don't own or you haven't paid a license, just let's just cut to the chase. Don't do that you should only use stuff that you shot originally recorded or whatever created or for use of someone else, you better have paper documentation for digital documentation, whatever, proving that you paid for a license of that. I get contracts with everybody I work with in any capacity. This is part of being professional as part of being a YouTuber, there will come a day when you're going to need that contract to prove something just trust me, it's so much easier to just do a contract. You can download a lot of contract templates from on from Google, you just bing bang, boom, slap in a couple of things.

I even hired lawyers at times to write up a contract for me when I had my puppets made. I went out and got a lawyer to draft a contract to make sure I had proof that I own these puppets in the designs and on and on and so forth. And again, back to my negotiation skills. The first few lawyers I contacted one to $5,000 to draft a contract, I ended up getting someone to do it for $250 Because I just kept pushing and pushing again, I found somebody who would do it for the right price, negotiate, negotiate