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Copyright infrigment on a Royalty Free song from the Youtube Audio Library? Really?

Posted by legofan2012 - October 10th, 2021


I am so mad right now that A Royalty-Free soundtrack that I have used for an episode of WVXP 27.9 FM would actually be copyrighted. I have used that on YouTube and no strikes were given. Clearly, I had downloaded this from the YouTube Audio Library which hosts some Royalty-Free music and sound effects that I can use freely without infringing the rights. I don't know how that could be possible but this isn't okay for someone to accuse me of infringing the rights for using a royalty-free song that someone will use for a video or an audio drama series.


To put a perfect analogy to this, it's like a person accusing an innocent mailman for stealing mailboxes, when in reality the mailman has stolen nothing. Or blaming an innocent waiter at a restaurant for nothing.


For those of you who don't know what the YouTube Audio Libary is, It's where all royalty-free music and sound effects are stored for people to use for their videos. I use it every time I want to upload gaming videos or some projects I might be able to work on. It also provides users a guarantee that they could use the music in any video without the fear or worry of getting copyright claims on their YouTube channel.


Can't believe something like this happened to me and it is not okay for anyone to do that. Hopefully, I don't get banned for no reason.


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Woah. I have been noticing other people having issues on the audio portal in the same boat as you recently. I cant say if its over zealous people or a messed up bot. Can you appeal? Maybe you can get a hold of a moderator in the audio forum to see whats the real reason. Hopefully its just a misunderstanding and things can be cleared up soon. Best wishes!

From what I learned, the system is used to detect audio submissions using unoriginal work. This is to prevent users from submitting content that did not make, including royalty free submissions, since it is against the rules. There are a lot of users who submit either remixes or straight up stolen content from royalty free sources so this was developed to combat against that.

However, I think using royalty-free soundtacks would be fine to use as BGM for voice submissions and podcasts. I believe that this system is automated, so it may be a bug. Keep in mind that this system is still pretty new and the Newgrounds team is quite small, so there will be a bit of work needed before these issues are ironed out.

I think you can contact an audio mod to sort things out, here's a list of mods:
https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/site-moderation