New today
A policy preventing Copyright owners from making $ on manual claims for:
Short song clips (ex: 5 sec of a song)
Unintentional audio (ex:
from passing cars)
Claimants can still block monetization or the video itself, but timestamps help you edit out the claim.
Based on my limited understanding of how ContentID works on a tech level, if the clip is sufficient to be Shazamed, it's enough to be claimed. For really popular and clearly-audible songs, @Shazam's nabbed it within a second of hitting the button, so...