u/Head_Hat_1143

Let me give some context before I ask my question.

I'm working on a pretty big YouTube project that I am just about to be finished with. "The ENTIRE history of motorsport." Going in, I knew almost nothing about copyright laws. Normally on my previous videos, I gather a big deal of my footage from other YouTube channels who've uploaded archival footage of whatever it is I'm talking about in the video. I've never ran into any issues at all from previous videos. While making this video though, I noticed a pretty big chunk of the footage was coming from British Pathé. I knew nothing about who they are, but at some point after using a couple of their videos, I saw this in their description:

"For Archive Licensing Enquiries Visit: -"

Seeing that sent me down a rabbit hole that I've been stuck in for weeks now. Half of the video I'm working on is based in the 1800s to early 1900s, and a lot of the history I cover is based in Europe. Turns out a very large amount of archival footage from this time period is just completely owned by British Pathé. It's very VERY hard to find the footage I need without using them as a source, so it's almost unavoidable. To license their content, it's probably on average $500 for something as small as a 7 minute video. If I were to license their footage, I'd be spending WAY more than I could afford. This sent me down another rabbit hole of YouTube's Fair Use laws. I found out that under certain criteria, a video is safer from copyright.

Things I've researched that make a video safer is:

Commentary and criticism

Transformative use

Documentary or historical context

Educational presentations

and PLENTY more which my video fully falls under. My video is an educational documentary that transforms the archival footage into very short clips (literally ALL less than 5 seconds) and also adds my own licenced music and commentary. I know Fair Use isn't a black and white thing, and every situation is different depending on context, but I'd say I'm pretty certain this video would be classified as Fair Use.

But then I did more digging. I went into ANOTHER rabbit hole of YouTube Content ID. I'm not so worried about Content ID copyrighting my video because I can just upload the video as private to run checks and if it comes back positive, I can just edit and reupload until the Content ID isn't an issue... but then I figured out British Pathé could still MANUALLY find my video and monitize it as their own without Content ID. Then that would lead to all the revanue going to British Pathé until I appeal and hopefully win a case claiming that my video is Fair Use. It's all really messy stuff that I really don't know for sure the risk of.

I have been very heavily anticipating this project and it means a lot, and this issue has been my nightmare for the past month. I have no idea if I'm just completely overthinking this and maybe British Pathé wouldn't even notice at all, or if this is a real concern to be thinking about.

Either way, I would love to hear some advice on the risk of my situation. I know there are plenty of other factors that play into this and without seeing the content for yourself it's going to be harder to form an opinion, but I need some peace of mind or some advice on if I should just upload and bank on the video being Fair Use, or if I should consider something else.

Sorry for the yap, and thank you for the help.

I’m gonna start this off by saying this. I was gifted a pc on my birthday by a bunch of my very good friends. This gifts was obviously a pre built because it would be weird for them to just send me a bunch of seperate pc parts as a birthday gift. I’m gonna include the image of all the specs, but here’s a list.

Ryzen 7 7800X3D
RTX 5060 8G
32GB DDR5 6000 MHz (MAXSUN)
1TB PCle SSD
850W PSU Bronze (Hoengager)
MAXSUN Challenger 8650M Wifi motherboard

I’m gonna try to make this as simple as possible while
being as specific about EVERYTHING that’s happened because it kinda gets complicated.

Ever since I got the pc its had some issues. I do
sim racing and most sims I drove would run very rough. I would get input delay and latency fairly often, which I honestly think is just because the GPU is only 8GB. I also make YouTube videos and this is where things start to kinda come full circle. Sometimes when I would be using premiere, the pc would literally just completely turn itself off. No blue screen. Just fully shuts off on its own for no apparent reason. It’s rare enough to where it didn’t feel like a major issue, but it probably ties together with everything else. Recently I went to go update my graphics drivers and the pc turned off literally in the middle of me installing the drivers. I went to go turn it back on like normal, but it would turn on, then just turn right back off after literally 0.5 seconds. I kept trying it and same thing over and over again. Eventually I got some help from friends and the first step we did was reset the CMOS. That did nothing, so then I thought it was a PSU failure, so luckily I still have my entire other pc to use it’s parts, so I took the PSU out of that (650W Gold) and plugged it in. After trying over and over again, the same thing was happening, but eventually for some reason it just decided to stay on, but instead of fully booting up, there was no display, the usb devices weren’t turning on… nothing but just the case fans and stuff like that. There was a motherboard debug light on, but this motherboard doesn’t label their stuff and after research I literally couldn’t tell what the light was, so I just began testing literally everything. Starting with taking the GPU out and trying to use integrated graphics. That didn’t work. Then swapped out the rams sticks and rotated em around. That wasn’t working. I did everything I could, but nothing was working so I decided maybe it’s just a fried motherboard. I bought a new motherboard, installed everything onto it, and it still doesn’t work. The good news though is this motherboard actually has debug light labels and it’s telling me the problem is DRAM. So I figured I need to replace the RAM. I bought some new RAM today, same exact thing is still happening. The last option it could possibly be is the CPU, but before I go out and keep buying stuff that I probably will never use, I just need opinions, so if you have any idea what this sounds like it could be, please let me know.