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At 7/3/24 11:43 AM, WooGrounds wrote: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.
At 12/20/21 05:54 PM, Pingu wrote:Hi there!
You're upset that one of your songs was flagged by our scanning program, and want to come ask about it. To consolidate all the little threads which float in Where is/How to and Audio forums, we've created a collective spot to dump your grief.
To keep things moving along, make sure you have done the following FIRST:
If you meet the above criteria AND it has been a few days since you filed the appeal (greater than 3), post your case here and we'll look into it.
Keep in mind, we are sorting through all the appeals manually which takes time to do properly for all parties involved. This process can be hampered by not providing supporting material at the outset.
Be polite.
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!
At 7/8/24 04:43 PM, SirExcelDJ wrote:Thank you very much, have a nice day!
See your PM
Audio / Forum / Games & Movies Moderator. Flag stolen content, don't be a dingus.
At 7/9/24 09:09 PM, chrisx2011 wrote:So I was using soundtrap and got copyright infringement because I was using the loops that they provided. so I got copyrighted by some random song on youtube that wasn't that popular on youtube that probably used the same loops that I did.
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.
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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
At 7/15/24 08:48 PM, Gamecreateslol12332 wrote: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
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At 12/20/21 05:54 PM, Pingu wrote:Hi there!
You're upset that one of your songs was flagged by our scanning program, and want to come ask about it. To consolidate all the little threads which float in Where is/How to and Audio forums, we've created a collective spot to dump your grief.
To keep things moving along, make sure you have done the following FIRST:
If you meet the above criteria AND it has been a few days since you filed the appeal (greater than 3), post your case here and we'll look into it.
Keep in mind, we are sorting through all the appeals manually which takes time to do properly for all parties involved. This process can be hampered by not providing supporting material at the outset.
Be polite.
hi I uploaded a song I made on stream on garage band with NO copyright and it got copyrighted? its called ElectronicBeats please help
At 12/20/21 05:54 PM, Pingu wrote:Hi there!
You're upset that one of your songs was flagged by our scanning program, and want to come ask about it. To consolidate all the little threads which float in Where is/How to and Audio forums, we've created a collective spot to dump your grief.
To keep things moving along, make sure you have done the following FIRST:
If you meet the above criteria AND it has been a few days since you filed the appeal (greater than 3), post your case here and we'll look into it.
Keep in mind, we are sorting through all the appeals manually which takes time to do properly for all parties involved. This process can be hampered by not providing supporting material at the outset.
Be polite.
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.
At 12/20/21 05:54 PM, Pingu wrote:Hi there!
You're upset that one of your songs was flagged by our scanning program, and want to come ask about it. To consolidate all the little threads which float in Where is/How to and Audio forums, we've created a collective spot to dump your grief.
To keep things moving along, make sure you have done the following FIRST:
If you meet the above criteria AND it has been a few days since you filed the appeal (greater than 3), post your case here and we'll look into it.
Keep in mind, we are sorting through all the appeals manually which takes time to do properly for all parties involved. This process can be hampered by not providing supporting material at the outset.
Be polite.
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)
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.
At 12/20/21 05:54 PM, Pingu wrote:Hi there!
You're upset that one of your songs was flagged by our scanning program, and want to come ask about it. To consolidate all the little threads which float in Where is/How to and Audio forums, we've created a collective spot to dump your grief.
To keep things moving along, make sure you have done the following FIRST:
If you meet the above criteria AND it has been a few days since you filed the appeal (greater than 3), post your case here and we'll look into it.
Keep in mind, we are sorting through all the appeals manually which takes time to do properly for all parties involved. This process can be hampered by not providing supporting material at the outset.
Be polite.
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.
Sibidi
At 8/5/24 03:45 PM, ElBonnieto wrote: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
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I do professional audio critique & commissions. Catch me on YT and X! If you got music, I'll playlist you!
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
At 8/8/24 08:18 AM, DoOnlyGoodEveryday wrote:but the website i got it from clearly states that it is free for use
Newgrounds is for music made by the uploader. Taking something from elsewhere is against the rules, which is why your appeal was closed yesterday.
Audio / Forum / Games & Movies Moderator. Flag stolen content, don't be a dingus.
At 8/8/24 08:25 AM, Pingu wrote:At 8/8/24 08:18 AM, DoOnlyGoodEveryday wrote:but the website i got it from clearly states that it is free for use
Newgrounds is for music made by the uploader. Taking something from elsewhere is against the rules, which is why your appeal was closed yesterday.
At 12/20/21 05:54 PM, Pingu wrote:Hi there!
You're upset that one of your songs was flagged by our scanning program, and want to come ask about it. To consolidate all the little threads which float in Where is/How to and Audio forums, we've created a collective spot to dump your grief.
To keep things moving along, make sure you have done the following FIRST:
If you meet the above criteria AND it has been a few days since you filed the appeal (greater than 3), post your case here and we'll look into it.
Keep in mind, we are sorting through all the appeals manually which takes time to do properly for all parties involved. This process can be hampered by not providing supporting material at the outset.
Be polite.
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,
At 8/11/24 09:16 PM, crisminatorx wrote: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
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I do professional audio critique & commissions. Catch me on YT and X! If you got music, I'll playlist you!
At 7/30/24 10:53 PM, chasedaniel125 wrote: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.
just stopping in to be curious about this appeal as it came up in the Where is / How to / Help
I just went through FL studio and their company sounds pretty chill about allowing artists to copyright materials made in their apps as long as no pre made stock loops are used.
possibly just the newgrounds machine getting click happy?
provided that the author IS telling the truth through and through
I got a copyright claim for 2 songs/tracks, 1 that is invalid due to the copyright reason being that I can't use the drum beat, but the drum beat is very generic and that it also has a bass sound (not actual notes), and the other is inaccessible and songs with similar names do not have similarities with my song.
Also wondering how a track with 13 views on YouTube got copyright.
I am worried for my fellow amateur musicians who use simple drum beats, because they could get copyrighted for the same reason...
I don't want to mess with the copyright system like this 100 more times, because many of the songs I made before (i am porting music) have this type of drum beat.
More info: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/copyright/appeal/view/117097
- me
I have no idea where to do this appeal. I also didn't read the Audio rules saying that trying to get my favorite song on GD wouldn't work and would probably get me banned. :(
How long do i need to wait for my account to be un-held usually?
At 9/3/24 07:33 PM, xXMrsealXx wrote:How long do i need to wait for my account to be un-held usually?
Hello @xXMrsealXx. I am not a moderator, but from my limited knowledge (as well as reading a few of the post in this thread) I can tell you this:
"It takes as long as it takes" but I've yet to hear of cases where it took longer than three weeks. Since NG Moderator is a voluntary (unpaid) position, waiting times will vary depending on how much is going on in the Audio Portal moderators' lives. Some might be ill, overworked, ill from overwork, poisoned at work... So there is no easy way of predicting wait times.
What you can do to speed the process up would be to fill in all the necessary information in your appeal form. And not click "close" - because that closes the appeal forever, essentially stating "I retract my appeal".
Of course, I am saying all this under the expectation that you were abiding to the rules you agreed to when making your submission in the first place.
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yeah i just assumed a piece of music was not copyrighted. sooo yeah.....
At 9/3/24 08:08 PM, xXMrsealXx wrote:yeah i just assumed a piece of music was not copyrighted. sooo yeah.....
Copyright or not, you are not allowed to upload things you did not create and have full rights to.
Audio / Forum / Games & Movies Moderator. Flag stolen content, don't be a dingus.
well not really... i just wanted it for a geometry dash level. i was gona tag the creator and all that.
