False . only Warner bros have an agressive behaviour . in general others record companies tolerate clips with their stuff as they understood it encourages creation . then it depends of the country laws , for example some of my videos are blocked in Germany , but the videos are available in their original format for the rest of the world . when you upload you just receive a message saying that your vids has third party content and they are going to check the owner about the behaviour to adopt bla bla . but record companies know that if they adopt an agressive behaviour it could give a bad image of them so they prefer to tolerate . what i do myself when i upload some stuff i check Youtube for the artist channel of my video music or the artist record company channel and i send them a message with the link to the vid saying that if they want me to , i'll remove immediatly the video .