I sold a few DVDs for $5 each.

My film 30 Years: The Story of the Minifigure was commissioned by The LEGO Group. I was contacted by a LEGO rep in early 2008 asking if I wanted to make a short film. Eventually this led to a conference call with some LEGO reps, Blunty, and David Pagano. I was paid $500 and sent a huge box of minifigure parts, which ended up being about 80-100 assembled minifigures (most of which are used in the minifig pyramid near the end of The Story of the Minifigure). I was given complete creative freedom, besides the obvious guidelines (family-friendly, use only LEGO, must be about the minifigure). I mostly spent the money on LEGO sets that appear in the film. It was a great experience, and an excellent last hurrah before I went to college and left the hobby for five years.

I'm also earning (very limited) money from Google Adsense, which have gone right back into investing into new equipment and supplies. Back during my peak viewership, I was getting a check from Google every month. Now I'm lucky if it's every 6 months. But maybe things will change now that I've gotten back into the hobby.

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I make enough to pay my cell phone bill. Living the life

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It would be cool to at some point monetize my YouTube channel so I could get some extra money for equipment and LEGO and such. So far, the only "profit" I've made from my films was a very awkward breakfast with the assistant principal of my school for being one of the semi-finalists in the PSA competition (which I made a brickfilm for), and $5 one of my friends bet me that I couldn't finish a film for BRAWL. I used the money to buy a minifig pack and a cinnabon if you're curious.

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What was the copyright claim for?
Youtube usually sends you an email detailing about how you are in violation of *insert excuse here*.

I had a copyright claim almost two years ago. It was for the "Imagine That" trailer.
Youtube claimed that the drum beats in the trailer are from a Disney film.
Watched the 'copyright class' video and as long as I didn't get into trouble for six months, the claim was dropped.
I really wanted to fight the copyright claim, but if I did and ended up losing the case...I'm banned from Youtube.
Sucks, but they don't give you too much choice in the matter.

They didn't give you an option to post the video without music?
Or to take the copyright class?

Only other thing I can suggest is to search for the original composer and contact him/her.
Have them contact Youtube (if possible).
It might be a way to clear things up.

What was the name of the company or composer?