We only clip what you own

Clipping tools make it easy to cut up anything. That is not a good thing for the people whose work gets cut up, and it is a risk for the creators who post the clips.

ClipYeti works with videos you own, videos you have permission to use, and Creative Commons videos. Every time you add one, you confirm your rights, and we keep a record of it.

Your own YouTube channel. Connect it read-only, pick a video, and upload its original file. If the lengths match, the clip is linked to your channel.

Creative Commons. Paste a YouTube link and we check its licence with YouTube. If it is Creative Commons, every export carries the credit the licence asks for, in the captions and the description. If it isn’t, we say so plainly: we can only clip videos you own or that are Creative Commons licensed.

If something slips through, anyone can report it on our copyright page. We can disable the video at once, so nothing more can be made from it, and we follow up with both sides.

It is a little more care up front, and it means the clips you post are ones you can stand behind.