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.
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
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)