SOME A$$HOLE STOLE MY MUSIC

So I just recently found out about this...

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[OlaEnglund]

EDIT: So I’ve reported the song on the Publishing site of Tencent soooo let’s see what happens next! It might get taken down but I’m not keeping my hopes up 🤷‍♂️

Thanks for the understanding guys, I just wanted to make you guys aware that this is some bullshit happening in the background that you might not necessary hear much about. It was NOT meant for you guys to go and buy my album lol. Just wanted to raise awareness :D

[ivybeard]

This is unfortunately pretty common from Tencent. They have even said in precious cases that ”copying is not stealing”. I have reported the songs on spotify and I suggest everyone does the same.

[Jeffrey]

Great explanation of copyright claims on YouTube. Sick of all the creative property theft these days. It sucks you have to spend your time fighting this b*llsh*t!

[cflincoln]

This type of theft is only going to get worse. The music industry has officially consumed itself.
Extremely discouraging
Good luck man

[davedavem]

Even YouTube's language is skewed: "the copyright *owner* may not agree with your dispute".
Why is YouTube calling them the owner?
Bastards

[zerdahero]

It's even worse than you think. Chinese and Indian copyright trolls are filing copyrights on public domain music, pictures, and films (videos) as well, and even stock material. How do I know? I got a copyright strike for a Ride of the Valkyries cover I made about 8 years ago, by some company in India. They know most people won't fight it.

[BikeTravelerX]

Totally get you. Back in 2009 a TV Celebrity (Jade Goodie) died on Cancer and i was Filming Professionally on her Funeral and Published this on Youtube. 5 Hours later a well known TV Station from England used my footage on TV with their Copyright place all over the Video. I went to a local Court and sued them. But they agreed to a one time payment of 10k if i wave the pending process. They paid but never appologized.

[BecomeTheKnight]

This blows so incredibly hard, man. Has me worried that it could happen to me to without even realizing it. Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. Best of luck in getting the frauds taken down!

[xenogroth]

It happened to me too. I had about 40 songs on my channel and a few thousand subscribers, i was also on Spotify. But i would say 30% of the times i got this copyright claim shit and i got so tired of dispute it that i ended up removing my entire channel. After all, i make music for me and nobody else. Keep up your good work! Greetings from Sweden.

[Ka.--]

A few years ago a French YouTuber I follow made a video about these abusive claims, and this one seems to follow the same pattern so I'll try to explain what happened :

Basically, this Wybie guy uploaded Ola's songs to a music distribution platform in an attempt to steal his ad revenue. This particular platform belongs to Tencent, and from what I could find is called "Tencent Musician" and is basically a Chinese Distrokid. It's in Chinese only and targets the Chinese domestic market.

The purpose of these kind of platforms is to easily upload music on several music services (such as Spotify) but also to monitor and prevent copyright infringement of said music online. That's why, as soon as you upload a song, it's added to YouTube's Content ID bot to check if it's been used in videos. So because Tencent Musician had the stolen song in its catalog it automatically sent a copyright claim on Ola's videos through Content ID.

Obviously, uploading third party copyrighted material to distributions platforms is against their terms of use (yes, even Tencent's terms of use). So usually they use similar bots to YouTube's Content ID to prevent songs belonging to someone else to be uploaded. However Tencent's one is probably less advanced than YouTube's and I think that's why it was tricked by the change in pitch while YouTube wasn't.

To be clear : it's not Tencent as a company claiming Ola's song as their own, but Tencent Musician as a distributor claiming a song they believe belongs to their user. All that happening because this user is making an abusive use of the platform.

So suing Tencent (as recommended by some comments) might not be the best idea. Instead I'd rather try to get in touch with Tencent Musician's support, try to talk to a human (because at this point there was mostly bots involved) make them aware that someone is abusing their platform by publishing stolen songs to steal ad revenue and hope they act in good faith. It's not a given, but I do believe they would have to act on such cases to avoid being considered as complicit of these practices and potentially losing their ability to publish on western music services.

(I should precise that I'm not saying that Tencent is a great company, it's a rather awful one, but in that case it's more a matter of someone exploiting a well known loophole of YouTube's content ID and a weakness in that distribution platform rather than a big masterplan from an evil company)

[miracleofsound]

This sucks, Ola. I also had this happen last year to around 60 of my songs.... ended up having to go through the distributor who let it happen to get it fixed. Incredibly frustrating.

[atenville]

Absolutely disgusting. Big publishers have to be held accountable for that. Something in big numbers. Like $1 mln for every false copyright claim.

[jdperdomo]

Not only they steal the music, but they claim it's theirs and want to cut the real artist out of the equation. This is just going to get worse, and artists depend on the good will of another corporation (YouTube or Spotify) to get things right.

Thing is, they also profit from this. It's an exploit, and all of them benefit from it. Everybody, except the artist.

[davidchavez]

These platforms should be held accountable for facilitating criminal money laundering, and accomplice to theft.

[AlexBallMusic]

This has happened to me about 5 times. I've managed to get the copyright claims (of my own music) removed on YouTube, but then have to contact the distributors of my stolen and renamed songs and get them taken down from streaming platforms and stores.

I guess this might even be an automated process where music is just being pulled, renamed and uploaded. If, before it gets noticed, they can steal small amounts from thousands or tens of thousands of artists then it adds up. It's highly unlikely that any of the artists are going to chase a few dollars that is now halfway around the world and I guess that's why it continues to happen.

[MyAmplifiedLifeYT]

Dude! I feel your pain and outrage here. I had a company in Vietnam claim copyright infringement on my channel. They filed about 10 in one day and YT shut my channel down. I appealed, and proved the content was owned by me. I even had a lawyer on retainer, ready to go to court and kick this company's ass, but YT would not restore my channel. I am now starting all over with this new channel. YT really needs to get the collective shit together.

[joefh]

Crowd fund lawsuit please. Vengeance must be had.

[SteveNotRichard]

Filing fraudulent claims should have ramifications for Tencent....like YouTube should treat their claims as de-facto dubious, and NOT withhold revenues automatically.

[saintluciaofficial]

That is absolute BS how this can happen. This is why I halfway hate the digital age we're in for music.

[johnguy]

Imagine having balls so big that you knowingly steal someone else's music, upload it as your own, then copyright strike the original artist...blows my mind