At 7/7/18 07:21 AM, Peregrinus wrote:

Both were by MiatriSs, and both are now gone.

Yayyyy-er, I mean, uh, JUSTICE HAS BEEN SERVED!!!

Even IF this were a remix, which it's not, judging by the length and sameness, it would not be justified, since I'm pretty goddamn sure Capcom copyrights their OSTs.

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At 7/7/18 09:03 AM, Thegamingtrickster wrote: Even IF this were a remix, which it's not, judging by the length and sameness, it would not be justified, since I'm pretty goddamn sure Capcom copyrights their OSTs.

Cough, flag it, cough. I'll give you a few minutes.

Also the art is stolen.

At 7/7/18 09:07 AM, Peregrinus wrote:

At 7/7/18 09:03 AM, Thegamingtrickster wrote: Even IF this were a remix, which it's not, judging by the length and sameness, it would not be justified, since I'm pretty goddamn sure Capcom copyrights their OSTs.

Cough, flag it, cough. I'll give you a few minutes.

Also the art is stolen.

Yeah, I flagged it right after posting this. Take him away, officer! Oh wait, I'm a police officer. Huh.

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Well, the guy who uploaded this has a different name than the creator of the track. He also refers to the author in the 3rd person, and was kind enough to provide a link to the song on Youtube , which seems to be identical, and I don't see a reason why the person who made the music would do that, unless they wanted people to watch the video there and subscribe, but that's unlikely. With all the evidence against the guy, I think he's pretty guilty. Although I don't see why someone would steal something with only 23K views, unless they thought it would be less likely that they get caught. But then again, if they didn't want to get caught, why link to the original? Whatever, I'm flagging it.

At 7/7/18 12:06 PM, Thegamingtrickster wrote: Whatever, I'm flagging it.

Gone. Feel free to just flag and put your comment in the flag. When I'm on I check them every hour-ish if I'm doing other things. Otherwise you can also collect and post multiple entries in one to keep everything all neat and tidy.

At 7/7/18 12:25 PM, Peregrinus wrote:

At 7/7/18 12:06 PM, Thegamingtrickster wrote: Whatever, I'm flagging it.

Gone. Feel free to just flag and put your comment in the flag. When I'm on I check them every hour-ish if I'm doing other things. Otherwise you can also collect and post multiple entries in one to keep everything all neat and tidy.

Sorry, it's just that I don't really have time to collect a bunch of them at once, because it usually takes me a while to make sure something is properly stolen (properly stolen?), I know you're supposed to keep it in one post. I guess tomorrow morning or something I could round up a few of them, otherwise, I'll put it in the flag. If I'm really not sure baout something, then I'll consult this thread.

At 7/7/18 12:30 PM, Thegamingtrickster wrote: Sorry, it's just that I don't really have time to collect a bunch of them at once, because it usually takes me a while to make sure something is properly stolen (properly stolen?)

Fair enough, I know it can be time consuming to make lists.

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If anyone recognizes this particular bit of music, please help identify it. I have good reasons to believe it's stolen. For one, the genre is supposed to be heavy metal. Even more importantly, it was uploaded by a very likely alt of a spammer who has been spamming the portal (along with a possible crew) for some days now. It is very hard to believe he actually made this music himself, as he takes everything from elsewhere, and the original stuff is just spam. So, if you know where it came from, please reply.

So far, I've found these 2:

First is a nightcore, and the second is just stolen and the author admits to this in the description

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Edit: found this one as well.

Taken from Parappa the rapper, which is a video game. But even more than that, I can pinpoint the exact Youtube video it was taken from. The video was uploaded on January 14, 2008 by the channel RhythmAndMusic. Both the song here and in the video have a long silence at the end, which starts at the same time in both.

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At 7/8/18 03:50 AM, Thegamingtrickster wrote:

Taken from Parappa the rapper, which is a video game. But even more than that, I can pinpoint the exact Youtube video it was taken from. The video was uploaded on January 14, 2008 by the channel RhythmAndMusic. Both the song here and in the video have a long silence at the end, which starts at the same time in both.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/814280

Sorry, my bad, guys. I swear when I was listening to this it had that same long silence. It doesn't anymore. Is there a way for people to update and edit their audio submissions? The song is still stolen from the game, the video just isn't confirmed anymore.

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Both the same song, taken from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQZOYZxe5g8

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This one downright states it's from DJ-Jo, who hasn't uploaded here in years.

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This one's a popular meme, and I'm pretty sure the creator hasn't uploaded it here.

Snow Halation is godlike.

At 7/8/18 04:09 AM, Thegamingtrickster wrote: Is there a way for people to update and edit their audio submissions?

Yes, they just click an edit button and can change the file out.

At 7/8/18 04:30 AM, ZielGD wrote: Snow Halation is godlike.

Nico likes compliments, but dislikes people who upload stolen audio. It says it right in her bio. Thanks for dropping in!

Can't see anything wrong with this:

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This is copyrighted, right? It can't be remixed. Either way, I think I've found the exact video it was taken from on the channel ThePendulumMusic, because both have a 3-minute silence.

Correct me if that turns out to be a non-copyrighted thing or something, but i think Warner Music is gonna copyright their stuff.

Also, this:

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Name was misspelled. It's Tenko, not Tengo.

At 7/9/18 12:45 PM, Thegamingtrickster wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/814484
This is copyrighted, right? It can't be remixed. Either way, I think I've found the exact video it was taken from on the channel ThePendulumMusic, because both have a 3-minute silence.

Don't forget a link.

Correct me if that turns out to be a non-copyrighted thing or something, but i think Warner Music is gonna copyright their stuff.

And, there's the copyright question, but there's also the issue of 'did they create it?' If it's not copyrighted, but they didn't create it, then it goes away. Like this one. VVV

Also, this:
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/814472
Name was misspelled. It's Tenko, not Tengo.

Sometimes they do that on purpose. Still, gone. Also, when you find a thief, check their account to see if they have others that violate the rules so you can flag them all. :)

At 7/9/18 01:03 PM, Exedor wrote:

At 7/9/18 12:45 PM, Thegamingtrickster wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/814484
This is copyrighted, right? It can't be remixed. Either way, I think I've found the exact video it was taken from on the channel ThePendulumMusic, because both have a 3-minute silence.

Don't forget a link.

Correct me if that turns out to be a non-copyrighted thing or something, but i think Warner Music is gonna copyright their stuff.

And, there's the copyright question, but there's also the issue of 'did they create it?' If it's not copyrighted, but they didn't create it, then it goes away. Like this one. VVV

Also, this:
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/814472
Name was misspelled. It's Tenko, not Tengo.

Sometimes they do that on purpose. Still, gone. Also, when you find a thief, check their account to see if they have others that violate the rules so you can flag them all. :)

Yeah, I was pretty sure that it was stolen anyway, I mentioned that at the start of my post. And about the guy who had other stolen things, I was honestly a bit lazy and didn't have time to look through stuff on YouTube, and the first thing I found didn't have a matching time so I gave up and just did something else. I think I may have found the thing now, but it won't do much good at this point. I swear I'll be more thorough in the future, and not let laziness compromise me in protecting the Audio Portal. I hope. Actually, I'll probably skip out on checking some stuff if I don't think it's obviously stolen, because I don't have that much time when I can do this stuff. But, I will try to be more thorough. Thank you for the advice.

A stolen mashup of copyrighted song(s). A double offense, I guess

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From

here

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The Living Tombstone remix of BatIM:

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From

this video

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The uploader has another song, I'll check that out when I finish this post.

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This is from

here

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The uploader of this one admits the song isn't his:

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This

is the first video of the song I found on YT.

Uploader says they selected the music from Waifu Wednesdays, but also says something weird about not uploading it without the author's permission, and says it's for Geometry Dash:

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I'm guessing they took it from

this video

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At 7/10/18 05:02 AM, Thegamingtrickster wrote: A stolen mashup etc

All gone. Thanks for the reports!

At 7/8/18 08:20 AM, Peregrinus wrote:

yo mah dude. pls delete this un available audio from the charts

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thx guy

At 7/11/18 09:20 PM, Sequenced wrote: yo mah dude. pls delete this un available audio from the charts

Much as I'd love to, this is a bug of some kind. I can't see the track either on the mod end. No idea what causes these to happen. Please post this and any others you come across in the thread "Audio Portal Chart Bugs", and hopefully one of the programmers can see about a fix.

This is a piano cover, but I'm not sure if the song is copyrighted. Can someone get back to me on that?

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At 7/12/18 06:03 AM, Thegamingtrickster wrote: This is a piano cover, but I'm not sure if the song is copyrighted. Can someone get back to me on that?

Welcome to copyright hell :)

So the account and rendition you posted are legit. The artist wrote their own piano cover of a song which has no piano in it. The song itself (Stealing Sheep - Shut Eye) has a copyright on it, HOWEVER it is a sound recording copyright.

Bit of an education piece on ℗. Circle P. P for Phonograph, but means "sound recording copyright". What this means is that the specific mixing of the track is protected (usually by the label). It's common outside of the US to see both the ℗ and © symbols, where the first protects the publisher by saying they have exclusive rights to that recording done in their studio. The standard © symbol is generally linked to the artist, lyricist, or composer (sometimes all, sometimes one of the above).

Back to the track. In this case I would say that the music as uploaded is fine as there are none of the original recording in it, it was composed to Piano by the uploader, and the composition and content of the original recording appear to be in the public domain (in that I have not found a copyright notice on their content from official uploads), and the music as uploaded has very clearly linked back to the song it is covering.

The industry example of how lenient ℗ is: Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and its many many covers. That song was ℗ but not ©. (source on that, and some more info).

I'm open to differing opinions, but that is my interpretation of the law.

@Jackho @NekoMika @Lexrodent if you want to weigh in.

At 7/12/18 07:15 AM, Peregrinus wrote:

Bit of an education piece on ℗...

Wow. Thanks a lot for that, it's something I really had no idea about. It'll probably come in handy later on. Especially if it turns out my life is some sort of puzzle game and this is a hint. Also, I wanted to ask, did you find a lot of stolen stuff yesterday, because I only found one thing, and I haven't found anything today. Am I just missing things or is something legitimately different?

At 7/12/18 07:28 AM, Thegamingtrickster wrote: Wow. Thanks a lot for that, it's something I really had no idea about.

I wasn't overly familiar with Sound Recording copyright vs standard copyright as it isn't commonly seen in my country (it's usually listed under the © symbol for clarity).

Also, I wanted to ask, did you find a lot of stolen stuff yesterday, because I only found one thing, and I haven't found anything today. Am I just missing things or is something legitimately different?

I found a number of things which were stolen and have since been removed. It does seem to be slowing down, but there is always an ebb and flow to all the portals. Start of the week always seemed slower when I was flagging, but we're into summer break in most places so I'm not sure how it correlates.

Is this some sort of Nightcore? The pitch and speed seem increased, but it's also longer than the official song. It's weird. Then again, if they used any of the original copyrighted song, that's breaking the rules, right? Also, uploader says they wanna use it for a level. I assume they mean GD.

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At 7/12/18 07:41 AM, Peregrinus wrote:

www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/735403

Song was not made by the user

At 7/12/18 10:20 AM, Sequenced wrote:

At 7/12/18 07:41 AM, Peregrinus wrote:

www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/735403

Song was not made by the user

User's SC links back to NG. Seems to be a collab acc.

I think this is stolen, but I feel like I need a second opinion. It appears to be the exact same as the original, but the uploader said "ORIGINAL by Ornly You", so is this not the original, or is it mind games, or a poor choice of words from a thief?

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I have to ask, if you flag something, and the author then removes it, does that count as flagging incorrectly and do you lose whistle points for that?