Google will make it easier to keep YouTube Shorts from using your content
(Android Central)

YouTube isn`t making it easy to opt-out, either. Update, May 5 (3:40 pm ET): Google announced updates to its Shorts permissions What you need to know YouTube is automatically opting-in videos to be sampled for Shorts. Some see the move as problematic as there was no prior notice to creators about the option. Not all videos can opt-out of the Shorts permission, but it`s not clear which. Users are discovering that YouTube is automatically opting in their content without their consent to be used by others in YouTube Shorts, the platform that imitates TikTok. The permissions box found in a video edit screen reads that when checked, it `allows people to create Shorts using parts of this video.` Users are finding that this box is automatically checked: IMPORTANT:YouTube suddenly automatically checked `Yes` on EVERY YouTube video to allow them to be re-uploaded as Shorts on OTHER channels ???Please let your YouTuber friends know that they have to go through and uncheck this setting o...