If your content or behavior on YouTube causes someone to sue YouTube, you are required to pay YouTube's legal costs and any damages, and this obligation continues even after you stop using the service.
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This clause can expose individual users and small creators to significant financial liability if their content triggers third-party legal claims, including copyright disputes or privacy violations, with costs that survive account closure.
Interpretive note: Enforceability against individual consumers may be limited in EU, UK, and certain US state jurisdictions under consumer protection or unfair contract terms law.
Individual users, including casual creators, are contractually responsible for covering YouTube's attorney fees and damages in any legal claim arising from their content or service use, creating a financial exposure that may be disproportionate to the average user's resources.
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"To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless YouTube, its Affiliates, officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees) arising from: (i) your use of and access to the Service; (ii) your violation of any term of this Agreement; (iii) your violation of any third party right, including without limitation any copyright, property, or privacy right; or (iv) any claim that your Content caused damage to a third party. This defense and indemnification obligation will survive this Agreement and your use of the Service.Excerpt from YouTube Ads's YouTube Terms of Service
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This clause can expose individual users and small creators to significant financial liability if their content triggers third-party legal claims, including copyright disputes or privacy violations, with costs that survive account closure.
Individual users, including casual creators, are contractually responsible for covering YouTube's attorney fees and damages in any legal claim arising from their content or service use, creating a financial exposure that may be disproportionate to the average user's resources.
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