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Regarding the Eminem song, I found this on Reddit, don't know if it's true:

> YouTube allows copyright owners to choose to leave videos/channels up when they report them and simply divert all monetization from the videos to the copyright owner. That is likely what is happening here.

Could be some sort of authenticity play from Eminem, him wanting to look less "corporate".

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I've been uploading a copyrighted show on a small YouTube channel[1] for fun for a long time now. This is exactly what happens[2] and why I've never had a strike or anything.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/uktotheworld/videos [2] https://i.imgur.com/r2Gl9cB.jpg

That's interesting phrasing. "This video was found to contain copyrighted material." So what? Tons of stuff contains copyrighted material, under fair use. But there's no acknowledgement of that and it's not obvious that they would allow you to dispute that your use of the material was fair use. (Clearly, in your case, that's not at issue here. I just think it's strange.)

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