YouTube's upgraded eraser tool now lets you remove copyrighted music

If you're a YouTube creator, you probably know the frustration of having your video flagged for copyright claims due to background music. Well, those days are (hopefully) over! YouTube has just released an upgraded eraser tool that lets you remove copyrighted music from your videos while keeping other details intact.

According to YouTube, this new feature has been undergoing tests in the beta phase for some time now, as it wasn't always accurate in removing a copyrighted song.

Now, with the help of an AI-powered algorithm and some tweaks, the tool can specifically detect and remove a copyrighted song without interfering with other audio sounds in a video clip.

However, YouTube still warned on its support page that there might be a few scenarios where the tool may not be able to edit a song out of a video if it's hard to remove. YouTube advised that in such cases, you should try other editing options, such as muting all sounds in the claimed segments or trimming out the claimed segments.

You could also choose to select "mute all sound in the claimed segments" to silence the bits of video that have copyrighted material. Once done, YouTube will remove its content ID claim from the video, which is a way of identifying the use of copyrighted content in different video clips.

YouTube confirmed that its reason for releasing this new upgraded tool was to protect creators on its platform and prevent them from using copyrighted materials that could unknowingly land them in lawsuits or prevent them from monetizing their content.

It has promised to make the upgraded eraser tool available in YouTube studios to around 63.8 million creators worldwide per data from Social Blade in the coming weeks.