@WooGrounds, what he means is, uploading basically the same track with the background instrumental distorted isn't considered your own work. Even if the song isn't copyrighted, which it is if it got caught in the system, it still wouldn't be cool to upload that here. Save that for YT.

What we consider a "remix" here is more like a really imaginative cover. Let's say the original was techno, and you turned it into bigroom house or trance, or idk maybe metal. Even then, you still can't use copyrighted songs without the explicit permission of the artist or label, the entity that holds the rights to the song itself and the master recording (the acapella and instrumental).

That permission usually comes in the form of an expensive mechanical license that's hard to get, so it's best to just sing the vocals yourself and get a cover license instead. Way less expensive and easier to get through distrokid or harry fox. Cover licenses are compulsive, meaning the rights holder MUST grant them.

Why am I telling you all of this? Because if you don't go through the process to get a mechanical license to do what you said you did, we legally can't host it.

my cover was removed from the audio portal without any notice: Whoops, that's a swing and a miss! (newgrounds.com). I was gonna upload a project file showcase on youtube later.

I made it from scratch not using any samples and there is a cover of the same song still up on the audio portal so it shouldn't be a problem.

I would love to know what I need to do to resolve this.

Am I perma banned or... what?

I'm sorry but I don't know how. There was no message saying the submission was removed or anything. The only thing I see is a message saying I was scouted.

Yes the ban is currently permanent. In some cases these can be revisited after time has passed.

As mentioned above by ADR3-N, you can't just take something not yours and distort it a bit. That isn't enough effort to even fall into remix territory even if ownership rights were less of an issue.

Your cover was likely removed for not being licensed. Also, your scout has been removed as one single song doesn't show a proper range of skill (even if it was an original work). You can be scouted again down the line provided you have a number of original works.

Check my profile. I was just uploading all of my work to this platform, and wasn't really thinking. Made it as a joke and had the file sitting around. I would hate to stop being able to upload my work here.

All other stuff is 100% original.

Good night, hope you are fine. I would like to appeal... recently my audios were removed from Newgrounds, but it's weird because I have the rights from that, I also have it on Spotify and Soundcloud, there my name is the same.

Thank you very much, have a nice day!

See your PM

The song matched against yours is no longer available, so I can't even tell what it was matching against. It does sound like you're using a lot of drum loops on top of each other, but that's not necessarily illegal.

What concerns me is your song, the entire way through, sounds pretty much exactly the same, and there aren't any other elements besides the drum loops and a single melody line throughout. Because of that, it's basically not fit for the portal unless you should add your own bassline, your own pads, and so on and come back; the rules are that your track should be at least 50% your own work, after all.

What will help you now: Proof you made your project, such as screenshots or links to the ST project (please don't send sensitive info publicly on the forums)

To avoid future problems: I would suggest to keep making music, but to switch to some other app besides SoundTrap if possible. You can always come back and say, "Hey, I make legit music now, not like the stuff I was submitting before. Please check out this new project I have and unban me!" Usually it's no problem.

Things that will not help you: complaining about being banned in your blog/other parts of the site, begging, or being rude.

I went to check if my song was good for use on GD but then it said it was COPYWRITED Evan though I made it myself

Did you use copyrighted or recognizable samples? Does your song otherwise follow all of the AP rules?

https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/terms-of-use/audio-guidelines

hi I uploaded a song I made on stream on garage band with NO copyright and it got copyrighted? its called ElectronicBeats please help

Trouble is... I've uploaded songs with stock loops in them before. Only copyright free stuff and sound effects from places like Freesound, and had it approved. I'm curious as to wether or not it's up to moderator discretion about how lenient to be with this stuff. I was under the presumption (until i read the terms) that Newgrounds operated the same as youtube, where there are only problems if there are actual legal copyright infringement. Moderating would i think be particularly difficult around Drums, since those get sampled from other stuff a lot.

Hello, all of my songs were unpublished for stolen content around 4 days ago and i filed an appeal, but it hasnt been reviewed yet. All of my songs are made in FL Studio Mobile using instruments only provided by the app, so no samples or anything. I dont understand why i got flagged, but i do have proof of ownership of all of the songs and i have them all laid out in my phone on FL Studio mobile. Each one takes around 3-5 days to make disregarding one, and they all take 13+ hours in the studio. Is there any other relevant information i can provide for this? Thank you and i appreciate your time.

Hello. I was flagged for copyright infringement for a song i made back in 2021 ~ 2022. i made the entire song from scratch in soundtrap and when i looked up the song i was flagged by called "it's goin' down" by DJ KING ASSASIN, it didn't even sound similar to the one i made. I've been waiting for a couple days now and i cant upload any other audio. I provided as much information as i could in the appeal. I was wondering if something went wrong. Thanks!

(note: the message told me i have been flagged by dj king but all i found was from dj king assasin)

Hi there, someone suggested me to come here since apparently one of my tracks got taken down.

Unfortunately I wasn't notified or anything of the sort, so I really do not know who did it. And I want to believe this is might be some kind of misunderstanding. Which is kind of both humourous, and crazy since I've already dealt a similiar situation when I tried posting it onto Soundcloud, lol.

Granted that takedown was a lot more unjust since my song was detected as a track that was completely unrelated to mine. I even tried reaching out to the artist about the take down, and they couldn't do much about it. So it couldn't be released on there.

Fortunately, it has been released on both my channel and my recently opened bandcamp page. So, I'm not really mad about it too much. But, I am pretty puzzled about this particular takedown. Hopefully this post does clear a few things up a little bit.

If its anything reguarding about the sample, yes, I did use a 3rd party sample that in all honesty, I don't really have a proper "license" for it. However, if that's the case then why take down that track when my Dub Mix contains that same sample? I just believe that's kind of odd if that is the case, but idk I believe its transformative enough. So, maybe I'm overreacting over here.

But if its reguarding the mastering of the track, I did receive some help from a close mutual of mine. While I did create the stems on a mobile device, my mutual was the one who polished everything up and added a few finishing touches. That was all done on FL from their end. It was a group effort, and it did took a lot of time to get it exactly how I wanted.

That's the only two conclusions I could think of here. So if there's anyone out there who can look into this, please do PM me about it. I would very much be happy to go over about all of this. I'm still a beginner musician and by extension, still pretty new to the audio portal. So I'm willing to learn the in's & out's and not fall into the same mistakes again. I want to believe this is all just a simple misunderstanding.

Thank you! :]

i am a music producer and i recently tried to upload one of my songs to ng, but after a while i recived a notice about audio copyright infringement,

because i have already uploaded my songs up on distro kid so i think thats why it said infringement, but i have no clue on how to solve this.

pls help

my music platform:https://music.163.com/#/artist?id=56056496 (net ease cloud music)

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1UHsNDsvaXm8USmlhaZTeu (spotify)

Moths ago I Made a song and newgrounds gave me copyright unfairly

Help pls

Hello, for over a year I have been unable to post my music on NG do to P-Bot deceting my track sounds indentical to track Virus by FADEproject. I listened to his track and in his track he used one downfilter and that downfilter sounded same as mine that I used in my track. I didnt copy nothing of his track I just added downflter that sounded indentical, my track is a remix of Cryng Soul by B0UNC3. And I saw other people uploaded remixes of that song on platform without problem. If it is a problem I wont upload it. Ill delete it but please I want to grow my career and I want other people to see my stuff that I made.

Update: Forget about the appeal, I removed all tracks out of fear that I might be causing unwarranted trouble. I'll try to be more careful if I do upload tracks here, but please give out a warning next time. Thank you.

Hello, i'm a little mad because i found out that my account is permanently banned from posting audio, and i thought i couldn't appeal. When i was 12 (i faked my age, i don't think it matters anymore), silly me posted a copyrighted song to use it in Geometry Dash without having previously read the rules. I decided to come back to the site to see if maybe i could appeal my ban and recover my ability to upload audio, i now produce my own music and i'm 16, i changed a lot since then. I would also like some clarification on how the audio guidelines may apply to free samples and VST instruments, since a lot of my songs use those and i don't want to get banned again if i get un-banned.

I've cleared your ban. As long as you follow all the audio portal rules, which I will link below, you shouldn't have to worry about getting banned again.

As far as getting caught up in the copyright strike detector, this is complicated since anything that goes through YT music or Spotify and uses royalty free samples can match. What you need in that case is to list the packs used in an appeal, and if it takes longer than three days to resolve, due to overload of appeals, come here.

If you truly follow all the rules, this should not be a problem. Just don't sample anything off the radio/spotify; save those remixes and mashups for sites like YT that can easily transfer monies to the proper rights holder, and do what you can to make sure anything you do post here only uses royalty free samples in an ORIGINAL arrangement. Be creative :)

https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/terms-of-use/audio-guidelines

so like it is a classical piece and there is no copyright on any classical piece but only for whoever played it but the website i got it from clearly states that it is free for use and all thanks to the mods if they can help but im not sure actually ive never really used newgrounds before and im not sure about the copyright stuff tbh

Newgrounds is for music made by the uploader. Taking something from elsewhere is against the rules, which is why your appeal was closed yesterday.

oh ok thanks i understand now

Hello so i uploaded a song which got removed and tagged as stolen, and got banned from uploading any song, the song i uploaded is a remake that i created 6 years ago (url source) and this song in particular is in all platforms (yt, spotify, itunes, deezer) except this one, at least i want to know the reason, didnt got an e-mail or nothing, here is the song if you want to check it, i guess that maybe the music distributer or the automated algorithm scanned this song as registered and maybe got flagged as stolen, so the song name is Volger by me CrisminatorX, i really want to get back the opportunity to upload my songs in this platform or else there is no sense to having this account, so if the response is negative theres no reason of having this account,

If it's flagging your own music from streaming services, please report that here in advance. Those are really common and are a serious issue. I wish we had a verification service so that you could sign into your distributer, YT or SC and prove you owned those rights without having to submit an appeal. Let me take a look at your case.

Edit:

Your song was removed by @TomFulp probably because it looked like a lot of the Geometry Dash thefts we get. If you can prove you own the associated SoundCloud, we can instantly restore your status. I'm on SoundCloud. You can find me there and send me a DM or drop a comment "x" on one of my tracks if it won't let you DM