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Please don't do this.
4 years ago
There are many journals I've wanted to write here, but I know that as a staff member of Fur Affinity, whether I like it or not, my posts will be seen as representative of the rest of the staff. I would like to reiterate that my opinions are my own, and this is a personal problem that has nothing to do with FA. I am just letting people know because I need help and I've seen this happen to other people, as well.
I recently took to uploading my VODs to YouTube even if I don't really have people actively chatting in my streams (I'm not fond of advertising myself.)
I've summarised it on a tweet (not the Twitter linked to my FA account, I just hope it'll get the traction needed to reach the people who need to see it most.)
Today, I received a content ID claim on one of my VODs that mentioned that I used someone else's song. This surprised me, because I only use game audio or my own compositions on FL Studio or Garageband as my streaming music.
I did not panic at first, I just Googled the song in question to see if maybe we might have used the same Garageband loops, as I've not had this problem before. Apple's Software Licence Agreement for Garageband specifically allows loops, when used in a song, to be used in commercial projects, as summarised here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201808
It was a song I never publicly published anywhere because it was intended to be a bonus song for people who bought the "Lights, Camera, Action" single (hidden track on the Bandcamp and Booth.pm purchases.) Therefore, only the people who bought that single were likely to have heard this song beforehand. But now I had to upload it publicly just to prove that this is MY song. These two songs are both Electronic in genre, but otherwise have nothing in common.
I would have understood if we used the same melody loop on the song, but these two songs sound NOTHING alike. I confidently made my dispute because I have the project files to prove that I did this song.
EDIT: The dispute was settled in my favour. As long as you are able to prove that the content you made is different/you legally own it, you should be fine. But I still hate that you're basically at the mercy of the person you're filing the dispute against. Hate that I had to put my legal name out there, too.
I recently took to uploading my VODs to YouTube even if I don't really have people actively chatting in my streams (I'm not fond of advertising myself.)
I've summarised it on a tweet (not the Twitter linked to my FA account, I just hope it'll get the traction needed to reach the people who need to see it most.)
Today, I received a content ID claim on one of my VODs that mentioned that I used someone else's song. This surprised me, because I only use game audio or my own compositions on FL Studio or Garageband as my streaming music.
I did not panic at first, I just Googled the song in question to see if maybe we might have used the same Garageband loops, as I've not had this problem before. Apple's Software Licence Agreement for Garageband specifically allows loops, when used in a song, to be used in commercial projects, as summarised here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201808
It was a song I never publicly published anywhere because it was intended to be a bonus song for people who bought the "Lights, Camera, Action" single (hidden track on the Bandcamp and Booth.pm purchases.) Therefore, only the people who bought that single were likely to have heard this song beforehand. But now I had to upload it publicly just to prove that this is MY song. These two songs are both Electronic in genre, but otherwise have nothing in common.
I would have understood if we used the same melody loop on the song, but these two songs sound NOTHING alike. I confidently made my dispute because I have the project files to prove that I did this song.
EDIT: The dispute was settled in my favour. As long as you are able to prove that the content you made is different/you legally own it, you should be fine. But I still hate that you're basically at the mercy of the person you're filing the dispute against. Hate that I had to put my legal name out there, too.
Dragoneer
Sorry to hear you got thwapped by the algorithm. This is a big reason automated DMCAs are just a genuinely bad idea. There's almost no real accountability.
Hoar
~hoar
OP
Thank you very much, Dragoneer. The dispute was settled in my favour, but I seriously wish automated DMCAs weren't a thing, because majority of the people who do use copyrighted content they don't legally own for malicious reasons, is a minority. And then there are false positives like my case. I have another content creator friend who recently got shocked that they had the ability to copystrike gameplay videos that showed automated matches to their own gameplay videos. It's ridiculous.
