The easiest way to file a complaint is to use our defamation webform.
YouTube will only consider legal complaints where we've been notified by the party in question or their authorised legal representative.
If a video contains your personal info without consent, including your image, name or national identification number, please contact us through our privacy complaint process.
Section 1: Complainant's information
- Country/region of dispute
- Your full legal name
- Your YouTube channel, if you have one
- Are you acting on behalf of yourself or a client?
- Your contact information
You'll need to provide information that will allow us and the uploader(s) of any video(s) that you remove to contact you regarding your complaint, such as an email address, physical address or telephone number.
Section 2: Details of your complaint For each video concerned, please identify:
- Video URL
- The exact statements in the video or metadata that you allege are defamatory. Statements such as 'the whole video' are invalid.
Section 3: Legal affirmations
- You must agree to and include the following statement:
'I declare that the information in this notice is true and complete.'
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Your signature
Complete complaints require the physical or electronic signature of the trademark owner or a representative authorised to act on their behalf. To satisfy this requirement, you may enter your full legal name to act as your signature at the bottom of your complaint.
The uploader will be notified of this complaint. Make sure that you specify if you do not wish to disclose your legal name and email alias to the uploader.
You may get in touch with us via email, post or fax, making sure that you include the requirements above.
Data will be stored in accordance with Google's privacy policy.