YouTube updates its terms of service for countries outside US

Brian Badzmierowski / AFP AFP – Video-sharing internet service YouTube has updated its terms of service for account holders outside the United States – and two of the changes have implications which could affect content creators in Cambodia. The first change clarifies that YouTube account holders cannot collect information that might identify a person without their permission, according to an email from the company which was sent to YouTube account holders based in Cambodia this week. The second update relates to the monetisation of content: “YouTube has the right to monetise all content on the platform and ads may appear on videos from channels not in the YouTube Partner Program,” the company stated. Advertisements on YouTube videos being viewed within Cambodia were removed last month, bewildering content creators, who counted on them for revenue and viewers who had grown accustomed to the ads. While Cambodia has never been invited to YouTube’s Partner Program, the channels of YouTubers based in the Kingdom were historically still regularly monetised, sometimes by basing them in another country. The third change to the terms is related to royalties and taxes. “For creators entitled to revenue payments, such payments will be treated as royalties from a…
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