LIVE Monetization Guidelines

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Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Unoriginal content presented as original may be demonetized

TikTok may demonetize reproduced or unoriginal content that is imported or uploaded with no meaningful or creative edits yet presented as an original creation. The page names content with someone else's visible watermark or superimposed logo, content appropriating someone else's work, and content with minimal adjustments as included.

Supporting quotations

Reproduced or unoriginal content that is imported or uploaded with no meaningful or creative edits, yet presented as an original creation, including content featuring someone else's visible watermark or superimposed logo, content appropriating someone else's work, or content with minimal adjustments.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The example is about content presented as an original creation.

Not stated here

  • The page does not say how much editing counts as "meaningful or creative".