It appears that many royalty-free audios have been accidentally moderated under Roblox’s Intellectual Property Policies, even if they do not break any rules regarding Roblox’s policies.
I noticed this tends to occur to:
Public Domain Audio (Registered as Public Domain Recently)
Royalty-free GarageBand and BandLab loops (Most likely as they are used in Copyrighted Songs)
Attempt to Upload an Audio File (in the Private Message) using the Roblox Asset Manager.
You should receive a message in 30-60 minutes regarding the removal of the asset due to intellectual property policies.
Expected behavior
I expect the audio to go through, as it uses royalty-free GarageBand loops. However, I also thought the audio may not go through, as I have seen multiple of my GarageBand songs blocked by Roblox’s copyright database, due to the use of royalty-free GarageBand loops in copyrighted songs.
Additional information:
Audio Asset ID: 17248531330
Uploaded via Roblox Studio Asset Manager
File name: “Negative2.mp3” (Attached to Private Message)
– Using royalty-free tracks, instrumental, no vocals, GarageBand loops.
Under Roblox’s policies, I own the music, as I created it using GarageBand.
This one is a bit trickier to look into. I just wanted to update this thread to let you know we are looking into it but it may be a few more weeks before I have a definite response for you.
Could you provide me with any other audio asset ids you uploaded that you think was taken down for using Garageband loops or royalty free audio? If possible could you also provide a link to the Garageband loop/Royalty free audio (or the name if you can’t share a link)? This would help a lot in identifying the issues in our detection software.
Feel free to use the attached private message if you do not want to share these in the public post.
"April [PD Guitar Solo] - 16169570917 - Removed Public Domain Song
NOTE: I found out that this track was copyrighted. → I used a version of the track “Rhapsody in Blue” that I thought was public domain. It was actually copyrighted.
“Part 1 Rhapsody” - 15950421608
Also see “Part 2 Rhapsody” and “Part 3 Rhapsody:” 15950425500, 15950426674
Jazz Hop - Royalty-Free Audio from Uppbeat - 13559410334 - Royalty-free and removed.
These were additional audio that were moderated, though I am unsure if this was due to copyright issues:
Hi I have been having the same issue for over a year as well. Some examples of moderated songs are In The Hall of the Mountain King, songs by creators like Tobu (one of the most popular free music creators), even Kevin Macleod song (probably the most popular creator, I guarantee if you don’t know who he is you have heard some of his songs.).
Anyways I made a post here a bit ago (I have been really busy lately sorry I didn’t do this earlier.)
Here are all the audio Id’s within the last year that have been falsely deleted from most recently deleted to oldest deleted:
Move Forward - Kevin MacLeod - 17249797580
Blank - Disfigure - 15870413502
Circles - Lensko - 15858927886
Osiris - Laminar - 15627004112
Lets Go! - Lensko - 15277456042
Bubble - Raven & Kreyn - 15277431823
Hello - OMFG - 15234123200
Homebound - OYNG! Vhana & Mykool - 15234078683
Fearless - Lost Sky - 15234008038
Elsewhere - Define Light & Miles Dominic - 15079306499
Jackpot - TheFatRat - 15079097956
Campfire - RetroVision - 15078897019
Sunburst - Tobu & Itro - 14840651324
The Spectre - Alan Walker - 14840609735 (I didn’t realise this one was actually sold to a new company which doesn’t allow its use everywhere until after I uploaded this so ignore this one)
Windfall - TheFatRat - 14781752272
Invincible - DEAF KEV - 14781359191
Killercats - Kaibu - 14555098563
Sky High - Elektronomia - 14361361387
VOIID - Azure - 14304392932
Popsicle - LFZ - 13884000092
In The Hall Of The Mountain King (by Grieg) - 13870894322
All songs in this list should be in the public domain or the creators allow use of their songs in all places. Most of the songs on this list are also featured in other Roblox experiences.
If you would like to know specifics of any songs on the list please let me know! Even helping me get a few of these be allowed for use would benefit my work and be so great.
I do not remember what specific songs I attempted to upload in that instance. They must have been copyrighted and falsely listed as royalty-free on the website I used for music.
I attempted to download the GarageBand file, but it appears that I cannot do that on my device. The best reference is the file I uploaded to the DM.
I can possibly try sending the individual loops used.
Currently we block all audio uploaded that we find a match for including ones where the artist allows distribution of their music on other platforms. A lot of the assets you linked had this happen to them. Some were identified as the wrong song and will be corrected however this does not necessarily mean you will be able to upload them. I would suggest uploading original songs you created and have full rights to. Check out the ‘Music on Roblox’ section of the Terms of Service for more information
That would be the most helpful since we match based on the audio fingerprint so I need the original audio to get the fingerprint. Before downloading the loops make sure you have the permissions from Garageband to download them outside of the application.
I was using the audio that is uploaded from the Roblox account, except the only problem was that people were messaging me saying they were getting copyright strikes when they uploaded videos on YouTube because of the music.
Music that is uploaded to the Roblox account in the Creator Store is only licensed to play in Roblox experiences. Recording that music in a video and then uploading it to YouTube violates that license which is why they are getting a copyright strike. The section of the Roblox Terms of Service I linked in my previous reply goes into more detail.
Well the point of me trying to upload copyright free music in the first place was to resolve that issue, and if I can’t do that, then I guess I cant have music in my game because people complain to me when they make videos and get strikes. Thanks anyways for the help :).
Does YouTube recognize Roblox screen recordings and hence prevent specific music in recordings from uploading, or are the YouTube and Roblox intellectual property databases shared, preventing the uploading of copyrighted content on both platforms?
I wanted to know more about uploading audio when recording Roblox experiences on YouTube, as my channel was terminated from YouTube after I uploaded a video with a track uploaded by Roblox (in a Roblox screen recording) I had not known of.
Attached is my experience and the Roblox audio this occurred with:
