Does duplicate content damage ranking in YouTube the same way it does on websites?

[CoGri]

I'm asking this question due to the following scenario:

When we have videos produced by Third Party video companies they upload the video to their YouTube account before us (the customer), has chance to upload it to ours.

If this was an article that was uploaded to the web then the website uploading it first would be classed as the original piece and all other website uploading the article would be considered duplicates and not rank (As I believe).

Hence my question, does YouTube work in the same way and hence our videos when searched in YouTube be secondary to our Third Party video companies as they are posting them first?

Regards,

Tom

[GPainter]

Hi,

Afraid I don't have experience direct with this one but there is a similar question here- http://moz.com/community/q/duplicate-video-content-question and you can probably drop PhilNottingham a kind note and I'm sure he could help.

Good luck, and remember if you find an answer let us know so people searching can find it in the future!