Which is why it was removed and you were banned

They aren't monetizing anything. The moderation program compared it to a database and found it already existed. This is an internal system and not a claim by another agent or owner.

I posted a song called We Are One made by Venexo and I got a copywrite infringement even though in the youtube video bio it says feel free to use this song. What the heck!

generally "feel free to use this song" doesn't mean "feel free to upload this song onto your own accounts even if you're not the creator of it." venexo would have to upload the song onto their own newgrounds account. if you're trying to get it into gd thrn there's guides on the audio guidelines iirc

Hi everytime I upload one of my songs I get flagged for copyright infringement on myself because my music is also on streaming services. What can I do to stop this?

I am not a moderator, but...

The easiest method (for now) would be this: Put a link to your Newgrounds account on those streaming services. Then fill out the appeal form and include links to the places where you linked to your Newgrounds account.

That would "probably" make confirming that you are the artist in question super-easy and would leave little room for debate.

Important: Do not click the "close" button on appeal forms. The "close" button "closes" an appeal which is essentially saying: "Close/Discard this appeal, please."

Thanks for the advice but I have been making appeals to all my music and I end up getting it on the site, the goal is to not need to make an appeal with every song I upload because that makes it take 1-2 days for every song I post to end up on the website

This advice is generally helpful. As long as you have a way to prove you own the social media/artist account you're getting claimed on, you should be fine. But if it's been longer than a few days and you've received no response to your appeals, requesting a review like you did here is absolutely the right thing to do!

I'll take a look into your cases if those are still unresolved

Hello, my cover of Silly Billy by Churgney Gurgney got flagged as Silly Billy (short lyrics ver.). I'm assuming the instrumental got flagged. Also, Silly Billy (short lyrics ver.) is also a cover.

Your first upload wasn't made by you, it was made by your brother apparently. The second one, rather than modify the same file, was the same thing.

Since neither of them are made by you, a requirement for this site, then it's valid that you can't continue to upload.

The staff really need to fix their bots because I have not even heard of the author or the song listed here.

it says right in the audio guidelines you can't upload stuff you didn't make, and being his brother doesn't grant exemption. is there any reason why your brother can't have his own account on newgrounds?

okay. why can't you upload to something like youtube, either? (genuinely curious, not trying to antagonize)

tunestotube is free

what???

Give it up, please. As others have already told you: That does not change a thing. The rules say "You must be the owner and creator of the work you are submitting." Simple as that.

In about 7 years, your little brother can register an account and publish the track on newgrounds.com. Until then the two of you have to be patient or look elsewhere.

Too young to be on here, and using a program which is just stock loops.

Yes, you've shown that there's no reason to trust your judgement.

Just to double check, is my cover of Hai Yorokonde going to need some extra changes, or is it "abiding by the rules" well enough? (Not wanting to shill, but I'm seeing someone have a fuss over getting a creator in GD to use my cover here. I am still working on improving it, as the comment states.)

Here is their reason as to why they refuse to use mine, even though I'm pretty sure that 5 months ago, Tom and another mod "cleared my name" in a sense. I also became whitelisted in GD back in June for a similar reason, from what I remember.

I should've added this statement from the original artist himself saying that anyone can cover his song.

カバーなどでご自由にお使いくださいませ！

YouTubeや各SNSなどにUPしていただいても問題ありません！

Twitter（X）やInstagramにてメンションしていただけますと見ます！

みなさまのお力でたくさんの生きづらいと考えている方々に届くことを願っております。

Using DeepL, this translates to:

Please feel free to use our songs as covers!

You are free to upload it to YouTube or other social networking sites!

We would appreciate it if you could send us mentions on Twitter (X) and Instagram!

We hope that with your help we can reach many people who find it hard to live.

Just to be safe, I am not posting my cover with its instrumental. This is just me playing my instruments.

https://www.newgrounds.com/projects/audio/5876322

i cant upload my song on newground bc of copyright thing of this stereo madness "remake"

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/copyright/appeal/view/121333

Hello. I'm sorry, but I didn't copy the music. This project (Light Space Song) was created in Music Maker JAM (not Magix, but Loudly). Please consider the appeal and resolve the problem. I do not know what kind of Bird music it is.

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/copyright/appeal/edit/122216

Hello, I uploaded a track I own but it was copyrighted and now I can't upload it. Canzendence - Cavader. I can send screenshots of my distrokid and stuff to prove I own it. Is there anyway you can make it so I can upload all my canzendence stuff without getting flagged?

Hello there I made audio story by the name of A Jazz musicians and a Vampires Adventure part 2 where I use royalty free songs as background music and for some reason it got flagged for copyright useing a song by the name of Royal Elegance" by Knight Armour that I never used

and I Filed an appeal that those are royalty free songs and such but for some reason it said This appeal has been closed,what does that mean can you please help me make the Audio file be accepted I would be very happy:)

here is the audio file

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/copyright/appeal/view/121888

Hello! I was recently banned, and I don't know why, it was because of the one song that I uploaded, I think it was titled Crushed. Any reason for why I was banned would be nice.

Audio Link

Dear Mr. or Ms. Audio Moderator,

I currently possess the need to inform you of the fact that it has indeed been four months since I have received an audio ban specifically targeted towards me because I have uploaded a remix of a song that is not included in Newgrounds. The remix I uploaded to Newgrounds was a remix of the Wii Mii Channel Theme, which is a song that is not present on Newgrounds–if you perhaps do not possess the knowledge of or anything similar to the song in question. I currently want to inform you that when I tried to upload the remix of the song to Newgrounds, I received a copyright strike reading that the audio I tried to upload was matched to a song–Wii x Wyy–that does not appear in the music list when I search it up. Yes, I am aware of the fact that I cannot upload remixes of songs, and I am genuinely sorry for not realizing this at first. This happened because of the fact that I was in a potential rush to attempt uploading audio when I first created my account out of excitement. I do not know if I would be able to thank you enough if you could unban me. I do realize that you, the reader, could potentially be unenthusiastic about actually unbanning me, but that is alright if you don’t necessarily think you should unban me.

Sincerely,

omaclintock

It's been a few weeks since I asked this here in this thread but I'm wondering if a cover of a Japanese song is abiding by the rules. My friend had a fuss with a GD level creator trying to use my cover I published in the Audio Portal, seemingly making up reasons they don't want to use mine.

Shifting gears a bit, is it fine if I asked someone else to make an instrumental / backing track for me? Am I allowed to post my cover with that commissioned instrumental? I'll make sure to give them credits/links.

My brother uploaded music to YouTube, which he created himself, so what I wanted to do was create a geometry dash level with that music, and what I find is that I can't because they think I'm stealing music, WHEN MY BROTHER IT IS THE CREATOR.

I am not a mod, but the rules state that your brother must have his own account to upload his track. Even if something similar happens, he'll have enough information for a more thought-out appeal.

Hello I was banned because I made a mistake when I try to upload this https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/copyright/appeal/view/121653

My appeal was bad written because I was supposed to upload my voice not a music and second mistake I made was closing appeal.

You can only upload things you made yourself.

You wrote in your own appeal about the music that your friend made it, not you. There was no comment in it about it being a voice thing. You can only upload things you made yourself.

Really all covers are in a legal minefield so I'm not surprised about their comment, but generally we try to leave things which are more unique. You would have to provide some evidence that the work covered is in public domain or legally granted permission to make the cover.

Co-authoring the user is the ideal, but any level of credit is better than none. If the backing instrumental isn't unique you may run into issues if it is used in other works.

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/copyright/appeal/view/120720

Tried to upload a song I already published through distrokid and my appeal was denied. I would like to be "unrestricted" if that's the correct word.

Proof it's my song via Spotify for artists

And from distrokid's website - "DistroKid does not take any ownership or intellectual property rights from artists. You keep 100% ownership."