YouTube Shorts is cracking down on clipping. Here’s what that means for creators.

If you spend time scrolling YouTube Shorts, you’ve probably seen plenty of podcast excerpts, livestream highlights, and interview clips uploaded by someone other than the original creator. Taking moments from podcasts, interviews, livestreams, or other videos and repackaging them as short-form content is called "clipping," but now, YouTube wants those accounts to bring more to the table. According to an Oct. 2 announcement, YouTube is updating its Shorts recommendation systems to "improve