YouTube is an online video hosting and sharing platform available to people all around the world. The platform was established in 2005 as a way for people to upload and share videos with others. Over the years, it has amassed a massive userbase and is well-regarded as the biggest website in its sphere. Many people are working on YouTube at the moment, both as members of the company itself and as creators stationed on the website. People are able to publish music, video, art projects, commentaries, reviews, playthroughs of video games, and many other types of content, all of which are widely available for public acclaim and relative financial success. Monetization was a practice that was gradually adopted into the system, along with the various partnerships and deals that allow people to earn money from posting videos on YouTube. With the number of content creators, companies, and independent artists on the platform, as well as the inclusion of the ability to monetize problems of Fair use and Copyright have begun to emerge on the platform as well. Since the video-sharing platform is free, some people seek to profit off of others’ hard work, stealing and reuploading existing content, or masquerading it as their own, to gain notoriety. In other cases, malicious entities also abused the Copyright system employed by YouTube to take down videos they do not like unfairly, which is also a large problem. Both of these issues stem from deliberate misuse or misunderstanding of the concept of Fair use and Copyright. This review will focus on separately discussing the issues of Copyright and fair use as they are existent on YouTube, as well as discussing the legal cases that stemmed from their abuse. Copyright is the law and the type of intellectual property which is used to credit authors of works of a non-physical nature. Copyright can be used to protect the original expression of the idea against theft, change, or other forms of infringement that can harm the creator. Copyright has gained traction in the digital age where online sharing of works has become more widespread and the need to properly credit and secure the rights of the author has become more apparent. On YouTube as a platform, creators are able to spread their work, retaining their rights as the makers of content. However, in reality, the law is rather difficult to enforce, partly because of the size of the platform and partly due to the ability of everyone to post videos. Content is constantly being stolen, reuploaded, and repurposed by people without permission. This is even more apparent in cases of intellectual properties of big corporations and companies or creators outside of the platform. Their works are being publicized and reproduced on YouTube, often without any kind of explicit permission, or even illegally. Online piracy has a tight connection with YouTube as a place where content can be freely distributed among the masses. The reporting system exists to amend this problem, but it is not without its flaws. Due to the sheer size of the platform, Copyright infringement requests are not reviewed by real people and are instead handled by algorithms that are unable to fully understand their use of copyrig