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If you do not collect revenue from your channel then that prevents many, but not all copyright claims. If the label or distributor does not have the applicable reserved rights they cant rightfully have it removed.

Youtube doesn't really care though. Apparently it's very easy to claim copyrights for something, and it's not really being checked. There are a lot of copyright trolls on YT that register random bits of music with Youtube's content ID system in order to grab the ad revenue. I had a video of some old obscure jrock band taken down and the claim came from some TV station. I doubt they actually owned the rights to that. I also heard that CD Baby is claiming a lot of music sold on...

...their site as their own in order to get the ad money. Ie. the artist uploads their OWN music to YT, and CD Baby claims it theirs and gets the money generated from it. Basically, the system is seriously broken.