SOME A$$HOLE STOLE MY MUSIC
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2024
- So I just recently found out about this...
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EDIT: So I’ve reported the song on the Publishing site of Tencent soooo let’s see what happens next! It might get taken down but I’m not keeping my hopes up 🤷♂️
Thanks for the understanding guys, I just wanted to make you guys aware that this is some bullshit happening in the background that you might not necessary hear much about. It was NOT meant for you guys to go and buy my album lol. Just wanted to raise awareness :D
Hey Ola, if they're stealing the song from The Haunted maybe you can get the label to take a look at it and to take down that stuff which is obviously stolen music...
I’ve already done this. Let’s see how it develops
Proof that you released first?
Maybe that Timestamp could help.
@@OlaEnglundTH-cam need to stop this Chinese group. They did this in the past trying to steal people's money and TH-cam knows this but they let this happen same people also.
PewDiePie does not own "PewDiePie" in China.
This is unfortunately pretty common from Tencent. They have even said in precious cases that ”copying is not stealing”. I have reported the songs on spotify and I suggest everyone does the same.
I tried that myself, SEVERAL times, and Spotify said no rules have been broken. Its not music at this stage, its data harvesting. These big sites are massively part of the problem.
I checked and this is also on Tidal (music streaming service). I just made a report on Tidal as well. Hope this will get sorted out asap.
I see the same music on Tidal - does anyone know how I can report it on there?
@@Fl4ppersthat‘s probably why the Spotify CEO said publicly that music isn‘t worth anything, it‘s just content which takes no effort to create. Also, if you‘re a small creator, Spotify doesn‘t want to pay you anything at all. The don‘t care at all. Pretty dystopian company. Stay away, don‘t give them your money. Buy albums again. Streaming is killing artists.
@@mehAudio What really sucks in my scenario is that I just got to a point where I am building my own studio (purely as a side project hobby of mine) and this is what I'm seeing happening to a lot of artists now. Intellectual property seems to be the thing that China in particular loves to steal.
A few years ago a French TH-camr I follow made a video about these abusive claims, and this one seems to follow the same pattern so I'll try to explain what happened :
Basically, this Wybie guy uploaded Ola's songs to a music distribution platform in an attempt to steal his ad revenue. This particular platform belongs to Tencent, and from what I could find is called "Tencent Musician" and is basically a Chinese Distrokid. It's in Chinese only and targets the Chinese domestic market.
The purpose of these kind of platforms is to easily upload music on several music services (such as Spotify) but also to monitor and prevent copyright infringement of said music online. That's why, as soon as you upload a song, it's added to TH-cam's Content ID bot to check if it's been used in videos. So because Tencent Musician had the stolen song in its catalog it automatically sent a copyright claim on Ola's videos through Content ID.
Obviously, uploading third party copyrighted material to distributions platforms is against their terms of use (yes, even Tencent's terms of use). So usually they use similar bots to TH-cam's Content ID to prevent songs belonging to someone else to be uploaded. However Tencent's one is probably less advanced than TH-cam's and I think that's why it was tricked by the change in pitch while TH-cam wasn't.
To be clear : it's not Tencent as a company claiming Ola's song as their own, but Tencent Musician as a distributor claiming a song they believe belongs to their user. All that happening because this user is making an abusive use of the platform.
So suing Tencent (as recommended by some comments) might not be the best idea. Instead I'd rather try to get in touch with Tencent Musician's support, try to talk to a human (because at this point there was mostly bots involved) make them aware that someone is abusing their platform by publishing stolen songs to steal ad revenue and hope they act in good faith. It's not a given, but I do believe they would have to act on such cases to avoid being considered as complicit of these practices and potentially losing their ability to publish on western music services.
(I should precise that I'm not saying that Tencent is a great company, it's a rather awful one, but in that case it's more a matter of someone exploiting a well known loophole of TH-cam's content ID and a weakness in that distribution platform rather than a big masterplan from an evil company)
Sincere thanks for this explanation!
great explanation, thank you
thanks for the explanation!
@@Ka.-- great explanation. However, do humans in this company speak English at all? I have experienced corresponding to companies in China who will not reply to you in English.
Great explanation of copyright claims on TH-cam. Sick of all the creative property theft these days. It sucks you have to spend your time fighting this b*llsh*t!
Just bought your Starzinger LP so F&%$ Tencent and their thieving "artist".
Tencent has money to steal others Music .... they Are TICTOK
Thanks for the support guys!
@@Jeffrey400 Glad the EU helds plattforms accountable for that since 2021.
This blows so incredibly hard, man. Has me worried that it could happen to me to without even realizing it. Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. Best of luck in getting the frauds taken down!
My very first original song upload got an immediate claim from one of those catchall licensing groups.
I sent such an angry email.
Even TH-cam's language is skewed: "the copyright *owner* may not agree with your dispute".
Why is TH-cam calling them the owner?
Bastards
Because youtube and Google are being broke up over a monopoly so they are going to create absolute chaos while they still can.
At that point, TH-cam had no way to know Ola is the original copyright holder. Everything was through an automated system and i doubt an actual human had looked at anything yet, so they can only assume the person filing the copyright strike is the original owner of said material and continue with that until proven otherwise..
Because YT is a pos owned by Google who is another pos
Nope, TH-cam should fix their language. The copyright "claimant" vs "owner" should be the language used.
Just one of the many things wrong TH-cam does to people.
Dude! I feel your pain and outrage here. I had a company in Vietnam claim copyright infringement on my channel. They filed about 10 in one day and YT shut my channel down. I appealed, and proved the content was owned by me. I even had a lawyer on retainer, ready to go to court and kick this company's ass, but YT would not restore my channel. I am now starting all over with this new channel. YT really needs to get the collective shit together.
Whaaa? How could u lose?!
Wow, that's really bad Ron.
Have you made a video or written about it in more detail?
How did you "prove" it? Unless you've gone through the hassle of registering it with the copyright office, it's a tough fight to win..
@@Snarkapotamus It was an audio recording of a speech from 1962. It made me over $30K just in add revenue. I copyrighted it in 2005, had all of the documentation to prove it, but YT didn't want to be bothered and shut me down. Here's a kicker. I had proven my ownership many times over the years before they shut me down which allowed me to remove it if someone else uploaded it. I contacted YT on X as well. Their advice was to submit my forms again about my legal position. They said I would have to get the company in Vietnam to withdraw the copyright infringement. I wrote to them at least a dozen times with proof of my ownership but they never returned a single communication. YT then said the decision to ban my channel was permanent. That speech is now ALL over social media and I don't make a fucking dime!
@@RonHenleyYT - That really sucks! I'd fire off letters to the FCC, FTC and my local congressman and senators. I learned a long time ago that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. And because the company involved was from Vietnam, there might be a State Dept angle to it as well...
Crowd fund lawsuit please. Vengeance must be had.
Against a Chinese company?
Hysterical.
@@vorpalblades it is when you say it out loud.
He doesn't need to convince a Chinese company to take the music down. He needs to claim his royalties. Have them play it as much as they want as long as the revenue goes to Ola.
@@ovivan79 revenue AND credit. aka just remove the dam thing
@@vorpalblades yes the company posting it is responsible dont be a fool.
Unfortunately, this happens to smaller streamers all time. The only difference is TH-cam gives us no options. They tell us to bend over and take up the ass. My other main account has dealt with it, and a friend's channel was actually shut down because the Chinese thieves put enough strikes against him that it was done automatically. After many, many attempts to reach support TH-cam basically told him "We don't know who you are, so fuck off." Thankfully you have enough pull and are willing to shed light on this.
Should have gone to a lawyer to sue, also TH-cam for being complicit. Or at least threaten them with legal papers so they maybe woke up
Same exact thing happened to me 10 months ago, someone stole my music and "licensed" it as their own through a distributor to get it on streaming platforms and YT - then claiming the revenue from my video as their own.. Very frustrating, but luckily the YT team was helpful and I was able to resolve it by proving ownership, and then reaching out to the distributor the thief used and get their stuff taken down. Some people are just awful man, damn. I really hope you get this resolved soon. Best of luck
This sucks, Ola. I also had this happen last year to around 60 of my songs.... ended up having to go through the distributor who let it happen to get it fixed. Incredibly frustrating.
Once, I got demon(itised) and I analyzed the claim, it was during me tuning my guitar!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF!
Imagine you have the rights of the "music" of a guitar being tuned...
Damn i thought smoke on water copyright claim is the worst i ever seen , cuz it sound completely different from original
"It seems that the expression 'copyright infringement' doesn't translate terribly well into Mandarin."
Jeremy Clarkson
They figured out the best way to attack capitalism. Make everything worthless
can you tell me the time on your fake Omega then go across the street and get me a cup of fake Starbucks?
a man of culture i see
@@JohnSpo on your fake iPhone
Look up “Top Music Attorney” she has a vid of what scammers are doing. They can even publish songs.
Sorry to hear this happened to you. Thankfully you have the resources to go after them and get your music back to you. It's scary and sad what these people are doing stealing riffs and/or uploading generic AI music under an already popular band name and collecting money to fund whatever nefarious lifestyle they live. As an artist who is just releasing music and have no grandeur of making it i worry that whatever I do release will get stolen and my fight will be much harder to get it back. I really hate this because it's nice that musicians can release music easily these days but man there are just some terrible people out there who wanna ruin it for everyone.
Not only they steal the music, but they claim it's theirs and want to cut the real artist out of the equation. This is just going to get worse, and artists depend on the good will of another corporation (TH-cam or Spotify) to get things right.
Thing is, they also profit from this. It's an exploit, and all of them benefit from it. Everybody, except the artist.
What did you just add here..? We know what stealing is, and we know that people stealing benefit from it...
@@macdietz It's everything ok at home? Need any help? Want me to call somebody?
@@macdietzshut up bot. get out.
If anyone's depending on the good will of a corporation, they're truly fucked to begin with. They don't have any good will. Their *literal* only purpose in life is to increase the value of their shares, and that can only be done by separating you from your money. That's their only mandate. If the service is "free", *you're* the product.
@@MFKR696 off topic, is your username a reference to that old slipknot album?
I've had a similar thing a few times with people uploading my music on BandCamp, passing it off as their own, often with them laying down an absolutely dreadful lead guitar line over the top of the entire song in an attempt to make it different "enough" to be their property lmao. It's enraging - I feel your pain dude. My videos are also being muted by Tiktok for "copyright infringement" when I try to promote my new album, despite being the official artist profile associated with the music :D It's a crazy time to be a musician!
the problem is that "some" countries are treated by the West as peers, while they are clearly not. But thats tolerance & modern "values" folks! obviously who makes money from this still makes money, so they dont give 2 FUCKS about dignity or justice.
That is absolute BS how this can happen. This is why I halfway hate the digital age we're in for music.
yeah, youtubers suk
Thanks for this, Ola. Also, huge thanks to Rabea Masaad. He checked out this ‘guys’ music and noticed he’d ripped something from my channel also and brought it to my attention.
I had the exact same copyright claim some time ago, disputed it and had it rejected. I took it on the chin because the backing track was from JTC so I assumed that maybe they had someone else right the track. It didn’t even occur to me to do a deeper dive outside of TH-cam so thanks for finally finding the source.
The cheek of people who think it’s cool to do this is incredible. Makes me think how many other times this has happened to other JTC artists.
Anyway, thanks again, Ola!
Dude, I had something similar happen to my band. Tiktok took down my entire band page for using our own music in our music videos.
Your music in Tiktok? Seriously? 😂
@8Junio76 yes. I'm not sure why this is funny.
@@8Junio76 Can you elaborate? I am considering getting into that platform just in order to promote my music. Why not?
The Chinese give zero fucks about copyright, or patents.
@@Straightedge63 I haven't heard of tiktok taking things down due to copyright, they usually fight having to take responsibility. I think that's all the emoji is about.
Hope you get this solved my guy and I wish for the best possible outcome!
We’ve had false claims on our channel too. There is no punishment or repercussions to the people that do it so they do it over and over again.
That is the problem. The only one who risks being punished is the one who is accused. If those who falsely accuse others are punished, this would never have happened. But now this is a business and TH-cam either doesn't care or they are profiting from this too!
It’s so incredibly difficult being an artist in the 21st century. I’ve given up and only make music for my own enjoyment now, sadly. I used to do synth videos where I’d track old medieval pieces on my modular synth and I’d even get copyright strikes against those videos! My response was always like, “This composer lived in the 14th century, which predates copyright law by half a millennium”. So annoying. Anyway, best of luck with dealing with these jerks - we all highly value your videos and music! (Or in other words: Your love give me such a thrill /
But your love don't pay my bills /
I need money - that's what I want!)
People are becoming way too brazen with their copyright infringement these days. So frustrating. Glad you got it sorted.
That's fuckjng insane Ola, how can people do this, pisses me off too man, hope you get it sorted out
If one of those is a song you wrote for The Haunted, I'd get a hold of Century Media's legal team ASAP. Might not help if they stole any of your solo stuff, but any help fighting a giant corp like Tencent is definitely needed.
Why would TH-cam or Spotify honor or take anything but a grain of salt from any large Chinese company that steals and infringes?
Not only is this happening to original music, but there are Chinese companies also claiming that they own royalty free stock music from specific music libraries as well.
In my earlier TH-cam videos I used a lot of that as background music, and I used to get claims every month from someone who used it in another song of theirs and claimed that it was theirs. I won every single dispute that I made, but it's such a waste of time.
People suck these days, AI is making a lot of things in music worse because of how easily it can claim something as its own and then release it.
Similar thing happened to me with my techno songs. Constantly got copyright infringement and everytime i fought it i won. Because at the end its my song
What a shame that stuff like this is happening! I hope you find a way to stop these a$$holes.
I was about to comment how 5:30 was basically just a recording of Spiro's song but not even a minute later Ola found a recording of his other song. It's crazy how far some people are willing to go to do these things man
There was a video I saw years ago about why you should copyright all your content by creating copyrighted music that you own which is copyrighted through an external body to the platform, put it into every video, and the immediately making a copyright claim against that video once it's uploaded. That way, it's impossible for someone else to come through and file a claim against it according to TH-cam's policies and you keep ownership. There's got to be a way to do the same thing with other platforms. Pre-emptively file copyright claims against yourself through your external party, like an LLC that owns the copyright on your behalf (and you own the LLC). It's insane the kind of bullshit loopholes you have to jump through, but do what the businesses do and wield the system against them.
Could you please elaborate on what you meant by "an external body"? Like the agency in your country that takes care of puclishing rights like ASCAP in the USA?
@@iseeu-fp9po Well, I mean copyright agency that isn't TH-cam. From what I'm to understand, TH-cam provides its own sort of loose copyright for content creators, but the system for protecting is exactly as broken as we see here. Most content platforms do the same (or say they own it). I'm pretty sure that ASCAP is a licensing agency, and as part of that they help you with copyright (copyright and licensing are two different things). So you could use a third-party company that does copyrighting/licensing for you, or you could file straight to your government's copyright office and do the licensing yourself.
I don't remember the exact method the video talked about, but basically the creator would pay someone on fiverr to make music for him with a contract that gave him full ownership of the music - all the copyright and licensing rights. He'd then use a third-party (something "boy"? I can't remember) to do the digital licensing and file the official copyright for him under ownership of an LLC he himself fully owned. He'd upload his videos with the music in the background, and then immediately file a copyright claim through his LLC for the audio. That way, it'd lock-down the video from frivolous copyright claims, and he'd also be able to fully prove his business (and thus, him) was the sole owner of the IP and any licensing rights.
He was doing this to protect the content in the videos and not the music itself. I have got to imagine that musicians can do the exact same thing, but with their own music. Start an LLC (or equivalent where you live) and have the LLC own the music, then file pre-emptive copyright claims against your own content through the LLC.
@@cajonesalt0191 "(something "boy"?" - Distrokid?
This is awful that they can rob it unquestioned and that's pretty much it. System is totally broken.
i see you in the comments lol cheers mate
@@JonnyCrist999 hey man! Crazy stuff here.
Had a similar experience recently. A band from Siberia stole my old bands name and all our artwork from 25 years ago. I was trying to show my kid my old bands and I accidently found the band.
Imagine having balls so big that you knowingly steal someone else's music, upload it as your own, then copyright strike the original artist...blows my mind
What you are describing is the absolute lack of balls.
It's basically an anonymous account, making claims in a country where there's no consequences for doing such a thing.
Therefore, the lack of balls is total.
@@johnguy8508 chinx
Happened to a small youtuber I know of (GotGearMate). Took his music, then reported him as a scammer until his old channel got locked down. At least Ola has the weight of us lot behind him. Small creators, reviewers and artists do not and are at the mercy of the wolves.
That's a bot that did it, balls of steel (steal) !
No balls there
Ola, it's tough to see this kind of thing happening...and I'm sorry to hear it has happened to YOU! 😪 Personally, I've made the decision to make ALL of my online content "open source" and otherwise "non-monetized free streaming" in presentation...whether completely original or work that "draws inspiration" or is "interpretive" in nature (I RARELY do anything I'd call a "Cover"--especially a "Carbon Cover"; but, by using my approach, it's ALL moot, really.) 🤘😆
Estepario Siberiano had something similar happen to his band The Cost.
Someone had taken their songs and uploaded them onto Spotify, claiming ownership of said songs.
I feel your pain. I signed a distribution deal for two years and never saw a dime. Reached out to SoundExchange and never heard back. My shit is played all over the world and I get nothing. I spent thousands to create, record, mix and master with big studios in L.A. Tapped out. Good luck🍀
If this escalates, lets do a fundraising for your lawyer? Im all in!
I'm up for that fundraiser too! We cannot allow this to happen to real music and authentic musicians!
Absolutely
He can more than afford a lawyer.
Bro, do you not see the level of wealth Ola has? He can afford his own representation. And I would say he probably has lawyers on retainer anyway.
Ola doesn't need fundraising. He doesn't live in the USA. Lawyers don't cost an arm and a leg here. Besides, his dad is a freakin' lawyer even.
TY so much for showing us how this all works. I'm about to release my first original song and this scares the hell out of me! 😬
This is why i fear releasing my own music. Im not sure how to handle it, if someone would steal my music/songs.
Im sorry you had to go through this, Ola. 😕
I guess a good strategy would be to upload the song in private mode to youtube or souncloud and wait an entire year before releasing it so you have an entire year of proof of ownership.
Who is gonna really care about new music nowadays???!!!
@@pablom8854 Really good idea. I have to remember this.
Sick 'em, Ola! This actually made me mad on your behalf. I am sick of the music industry being riddled with scams and rip-offs.
File a lawsuit .
You have your stems, your project on your DAW, your metadata that can prove that you wrote the music and the exact date you produced it.
No worries, you have enough proof to engage into a fight with tencent and claim a lot of money from damage to your reputation and theft, plus some interests. This will teach them a valuable lesson.
Napster Trial 2.0 , minus the hate that ensued from the first one ! Good luck.
Nah man, unless there is a group of lawsuit against tencent nothing will happen. They are stationed in china and as Ola said, they don't give a fuck about copyright. It will just be a long drawn out battle to see who has more money.
“This will teach them a valuable lesson” lol. Enjoy your naivety it is a precious and finite resource.
You are incredibly, incredibly naive if you think a Chinese megacorp would even bother responding to any lawsuit from an individual. Evidence doesn't mean anything when the other party is untouchable.
Good luck trying to win a copyright lawsuit in China. 😅😂 They get away with almost everything, making knockoffs of western products, cars and even Starbucks. No chance for a ytuber musician.
the cost of it is not worth it unfortunately, thanks to Spotify and other streaming platforms music is now worthless
This is infuriating. Good luck with this, Ola. I assumed this would become a more common occurrence in the future we're finding ourselves in.
What a disgusting behavior.
I hope you can go through this dude.
And it's just going to get worse. I'm a photographer and we run into the same problems as well, people stealing our shit.
someone from China stole an Idea and copied it badly?!? wow....I never heard of that happening. 🤔
This is absolutely disgusting. I'm sorry you have to go through this man. I would be livid!
Here because I saw Bumblefoot share this video. This sucks so much for legitimate artists. I feel like artists are fighting enough of an uphill battle with the way the music industry works before having to worry about lazy people working the system with stolen content they didn't even create!
This is the lowest of the low, stealing someones creative output. Some people have no shame. Power to you Ola! Keep at it.
We are getting to the point where Global Publishing rights are going to have to be developed to counter these music pirates. Good luck, Ola.
Gross, dude
Ola, I hope this problem will be resolved positively. I had the same problem twice on my other YT channel. However, when I listened to those releases, there were absolutely no similarities to my songs, which annoyed me a lot. So I think TH-cam also needs to improve its algorithm significantly to minimize these false positives.
This is the future. Unfortunately. Big name record companies are battling the same shit with this great wonderful A.I.shit that has been developed.
sucks balls that this is happening. Thank you for spreading awareness of this because I'm sure this is happening to other artists as well. Keep fighting the good fight Ola!
Take them down Ola! Sue their ass off and get back millions to invest in your amazing music and guitar company!!! We stand with you!🤘💪😎
As much as I'd love to see the little guy take on Goliath, Goliath has lawyers coming out of their ears, mouth and anus. He would need our support to do this or it could bankrupt him.
They’re also from a jurisdiction that doesn’t care about our laws to begin with.
@@pieflies In reality the Western Governments should be protecting their people and businesses by cutting off certain connections with these countries. They need to be sanctioned.
Just be popular in your Sweden and that's good enough.
Yep this is something you talked about a little while ago, where you said AI is gonna start pinching artists music, and / or just creating albums, with no effort at all...its beginning! I can feel and hear you ANGST!! I bet it'll be happening with other bands / artists too very soon!
You should make Wybie shirts!
Ola your cover of the Floods solo and outro was incredible. I still listen to that all the time. Thank you for so much amazing content.
Fking TENCENT???? Thats fucked up....
Tencent has has it's own division for music called TME which in turn offers a service to distribute songs/content on spotify,itunes etc... it's essentially a giant conglomerate version of distrokid.. thus why it shows up as "tencent" as their claim is coming VIA tencent.
not only they own shitty games like League Of Legends but they also have scummy music groups too
@@gergoretvari6373 not defending anything but league was shitty long before tencent bought most of riot
It happens to us all; i had a kid from france create an amazing house music version of a track i wrote for a soundtrack to a short indie film. And while it was a really good remix/reworking, it was still unauthorized, so i had to send him a cease and desist. This was in 2010, before licensing wasn’t as prevalent as it is today, but we worked it out, i licensed the content to him for a fair price- 1 USD- and he put me on both his copyright and his PRO so i could be acknowledged as songwriter. Im not out there to stifle creativity, but it was at its core, my song. He was really cool about it, and it all worked out.
It pays to keep up on where your music is online. It’s far easier to steal your music online the inter webs.
No one should be allowed to upload and CLAIM ownership of ANY music if the platform doesn't CONFIRM and APPROVE OWNERSHIP.
It's bloody insane that the online streaming platforms have been allowing this kind of behavior in the first place. They need to be hit with CLASS ACTION lawsuits from all the artists, and they should go bankrupt if they don't FIX this SHIT
If you made the platform responsible for verifying the ownership of every piece of content with music, they would just ban the uploading of musical content. Not only would it be waaaaay too much work and expense to make business sense, it would also make the platform legally liable for any breaches of copyright.
@@theKashConnoisseur The platform can handle the confirmation and final approval if the person/entity making the claim will provide all the evidence and handle all the related work.
If this has not been done, then it definitely should be illegal for the platform to take any action. Also making a false claim should always lead to a massive fine and imprisonment.
Huge respect for fighting the good fight, one scammer at a time 🙏🏻
A lot of "songwriters" are taking existing real music and uploading into Suno. The AI will create a cover version of the uploaded audio and after a few attempts, something very close can be realized. If this is how people are going to be in the music biz, stealing music that was put together with hard work and pushing a few mouse clicks to say it's their own, I say fuck the music biz. Hang in there, Ola. Your music is incredible. Fight for it.
this person didnt even use ai to slightly change it. they just cropped his music and tuned it up.
That’s very dangerous!! Platforms must develop a procedure to prevent this kind of thing from happening. Otherwise, real artists are doomed !!!
But this is exactly why you hear people that are successful at anything in life they're always talking about their goddamn lawyer. My wife and I went and talked to this lawyer one day about some business s*** and that was honestly some of the best money I ever spent just with the advice he gave us and he did write up some papers for some s*** but he basically said you have to have a goddamn lawyer for just about everything especially in business.
Exactly the same thing happened to me a few years ago on an older channel I had at the time with some field recordings I made. They claimed my recording, but I disputed the claim and won, especially because they posted their video after I had posted mine. As far as I remember, it was a small ambient music record label. Frustrating situation!
Absolute disgusting behavior, and ofc its Tencent so it all makes sense.
Cause Asian?
@@Ravejet yeah
Thx for publishing this i had a very similar prolem with (my only) viral video ;-) ...
Assholes ruin everything. It’s my main reason for not doing anything anymore. Some asshole will just ruin it.
oh that’s your excuse for doing nothing. Right.
im pretty much in the same boat. stopped doing anything creative that others enjoy if it doesnt at least pay for itself. i used to be a photographer until i realised that i dont even make enough to cover the cost of getting out to events or to do photoshoots, let alone pay for equipment that breaks etc. so why go through with it all for no benefit. if im going to be worthless i'll at least be worthless doing things i enjoy.
@@8Junio76 You got a better one?
@@8Junio76 hey, there's one!
Sorry to hear that Ola. It's a shame that some people without morals will steal someone's work.
It isn't just a few people with no morals, it's the entire business culture now. It's being massively normalized, encouraged and they even have most folk just basically defending all this online corporate practice because they've been indoctrinated into believing that basically anything now to do with the internet and AI etc is some magnificent great progress for society and anyone whinging about it just needs to get with the times and find a new career etc...
Dude, that sucks. Sue the crap out of that guy.
Wow dude... that sucks so bad. Stealing someone's possessions is horrible...But stealing your art, your music, and then claiming it as their own... That's low. And then...the b*lls to say you stole it first...Wow...
This is really scary the way people are now forming for audio content to then claim against genuine artists.
It's really going to hit small indie artists.
Sorry to hear about this mess you're going through, this person needs to be brought down. Follow it through.
Lol! My song ‘Python’ at 5:30 😂
Honestly theres so many scammers etc out there that be doing this crap to people.
But honestly every platform should have one common ground. When you upload theres a date.
They could clearly see Ola uploaded it first (duh because its his content) and that should be the end of it on the TH-cam side.
Ola your awesome and I've been subscribed for alot of years now and as a fellow guitar player i hope you kick this guys ass by getting him shutdown!!
You got a copyright claim from TENCENT? They are easy Top 10 biggest companies in China 😅. I guess that’s how they become so rich.
They became at least top 3, absorbed many "western" companies over the years and then the CCP took over the business.
This is outrageous - I hope you get this sorted out quickly
Happened to me last year too.
Good thing my songs suck and don’t make money though so they wasted their time lol
This is super common. It’s not just in music. We have lots of Chinese companies stealing all kinds of intellectual properties whether it’s art, engineering designs & patents, and no one is doing anything about it. I watched the news piece in America about a small independent band in Boston that had all of their music stolen by somebody in Tencent and got channel strikes on their TH-cam and had their Spotify creator account suspended
It’s really eye-opening that TH-cam will side with the perpetrator and give the actual artist the copyright strike, leaving him screwed unless he has the balls to stand up to them, good for you!
This is so messed up, i hope streaming platforms bans people like this. Ola, i hope you can give us a update on this matter when its solved.
WTF?! Nobody likes a thief
i really hope you get this sorted ola and s someone jast starting out it really makes you think about putting your own music out there
You are Swedish, you must have solutions for this.
No more meatballs for a week :0
Man, I've been following you for quite sometime now. You inspired me to create my YT channel, and as you I do it to make my music. So this is Terrifying, because you are super well known and super succesfull, but like you said, a court battle with Tencent? It's nuts. I think a while ago Moist Critikal (Charlie) talked about all this stuff... Imagine smaller channels being victims of this, it's scary. You don't have to explain your anger.
Sadly, this is just the beginning... AI is here. We must destroy the machine. This definitely sucks ass.
Wow. Time to go back to recording music on physical media only. Not because it's cool or hipster or whatever, but just to slow down the blatant stealing. Good to hear about YT deciding for you being right, I don't imagine Mr. Big Bad $potify will care.
stealing someone's music compliments your music at the same time it also disrespects your work as an artist and your time it took you to compose the music in question! I feel for you brother! Nobody should steal other peoples work! That is just a huge disrespect! I hope it gets taken down and you file a lawsuit against the thieves!
It’s important to all of us too! Thanks for exposing these impostors. How low down dirty of them.
In time I think we will either see a more robust screening system for music and content being published or the complete dissolution of publishing companies like Distrokid where you must go through a label of some kind to get published again. We just recently saw some of the flaws with companies like Distrokid when we had all of the AI songs being published to a ton of bands streaming accounts.
Good to know about this, thank you for making us aware of this!
All the hard work you put in for holes like that to just take it....I hope everything works out in your favor . 8 years following you so I know you definitely put the work in. Have a blessed day Ola 🙏🏻💯😎👊🏻
This is really fucked up Ola. I appreciate you showing the steps you took towards this claim. Thankfully the TH-cam side of things have worked out for you. This certainly makes me think twice about uploading my music to TH-cam or Spotify anytime soon. Thankfully you had registered your music, guys remember: ALWAYS REGISTER YOUR MUSIC.
Thank you for sharing this. I’m glad you won this case. In times of AI it is really difficult and dangerous. Regards from Germany! Daniel
Sorry this is happening to you. I can only imagine the frustration. I had an uncle who used to be an intellectual property attorney in the metal music industry. Unfortunately, he passed away last year but your story and knowing his experiences has inspired me to consider law school just for nonsense like this. I too am an artist - mostly writing but also dabbling in music. I'm sure it will clear up but the whole thing is fucking stupid and you should not have to deal with it in the first place. Best of luck!
That's ridiculous,someone's life work and someone just stealing it plain and simple...That's great you won the outcome though.Sorry you're having to deal with this,Ola Luv ya Brotha!!!
Man, I just have to say, all these years later, my favorite guitar tone of all time is still that OLA - Clean Nightmare preset of yours on ToonTrack's Metal Guitar Gods 2. I use it nearly every day haha. Cheers, man.
I remember uploading the first time to a distributor years ago and thinking that this system could totally be exploited, and here we are. ...and since music can be ripped from anywhere online, no service is safe. If these scammers just want volume of content, small artists are going to be targeted the most since we can't spend time fighting claims, so we're all basically f'd. Awesome.
Screw these guys. Now you have to monitor this crap? Unbelievable. Thanks Napster
TH-cam's CEO cares mpre about getting rid of ad blockers than fixing their broken ass copyright system. It's disgusting. Hope you get this sorted soon (and nice shirt, Car Bomb are great)
Oh man, this is fucking brutal. I was always paranoid about putting my uncopyrighted music out there for the world, and stuff like this is the reason why. Of course, I'll never have the fame or notoriety that you do, so not sure why they'd ever steal anything I did, but yeah. Sucks. Glad you got it straightened out with TH-cam, at least.