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[Shiny_Seekah]

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[Intended_Pun]

All I can say is make sure the music you’re uploading is royalty-free or has a Creative Commons license of some sort. If it doesn’t explicitly say the music isn’t copyrighted or under a CC license where you got the music, you cannot use it.

[OlafGames123]

Any copyrighted music can be bad, since you can get copyrighted or a DMCA, I’m sure.

I recommend you use only Roblox official uploaded songs, or I recommend this: NoCopyrightSounds. They are a YouTube channel and you can download their songs. Just remember to credit the creator and NCS for releasing it.

Also, do what @Intended_Pun said. It is recommended all songs has CC license or is royalty-free. By doing that, your chances of getting copyrighted are probably near 0.

[Aotrou (Shawn)]

@Shiny_Seekah

I don’t want to run into this problem again in the future.

If you don’t want to run into this problem again in the future… don’t upload songs you don’t own?

Pretty cut and dry.

[colbert2677 (Dreamseeker)]

That’s what the search bar is for. Rules around IP have been given clarity countless times and you are capable of doing your own research so there’s no excuse for not knowing, amateur or not. The announcements that have been made should give you a sufficient enough understanding of how things roll around here.

Announcements regarding audio copyright here. I did the search so you didn't have to.

Reminder about IP

Hi Developers, We have been getting some questions about Intellectual Property (“IP”) and what it means to you, so we would like to take this opportunity to share a few reminders. You own the IP of the games and other content you create. And you grant us a license to use that IP in certain ways. The Roblox Terms of Use require you to respect the IP owned by other individuals and companies. It is against the Terms for you to use IP from another game, film, book, video, music, artwork, or any o…

Upcoming Music Changes and Copyright Related Action

Greetings Developers, We are writing to notify you about significant, upcoming changes with respect to music on the platform. We encourage you to review this in detail. New Music Availability We recently signed a license agreement with APM Music, the world’s leading creative music house and production music library provider. Our agreement with APM will provide our users with access to hundreds of thousands of tracks (“Licensed Music”) for inclusion in their games on Roblox. Even better, all…

Music Copyright Flagging is Live Today

Hey Developers, A few weeks ago,we announced that copyrighted content will be removed from Studio. This change is going to begin processing today. For all music flagged as copyrighted that you have not replaced or updated, Roblox is in the process of substituting in a composition of placeholder music. To help you identify copyrighted music in your games, Studio will notify you if your soundIds are referencing copyrighted songs (image below). Please keep in mind that if you set the soundId at …

More information about our DMCA policy

Please see our Developer Hub Article for the most up-to-date and in-depth information. Developers, We know that there was a lot of confusion last week when we posted about our DMCA policy. We’d like to provide more information about our DMCA takedown process and our repeat infringer policy. Compared to other UGC platforms, we receive a comparatively small number of takedown notices – on average, 5 or less per month. Hopefully, this post will answer many of the questions that have been shared. …

Answers to your recent questions regarding our DMCA policy

Please see our Developer Hub Article for the most up-to-date and in-depth information. Thank your all the great questions. We wanted to follow up with additional information that will hopefully answer many of them. Why does Roblox have a new DMCA policy? We don’t. Our existing DMCA policy has been in place since we launched the platform. The purpose of these posts is to remind the community of our policy and to provide an update about some improvements we’re making with respect to how we supp…

In terms of the issue you’re experiencing, this isn’t just some kind of selective randomness that it’s portrayed to be. An active request for takedown of something needs to be put forth. The difference between a copyrighted song that’s claimed and one that isn’t depends on the circumstances of acquisition as well as the desires of the licensor and whether an active takedown request for that asset has been placed or not.

Roblox does not police content and they don’t assume the circumstances behind legal issues between you (the licensee) and a licensor, there needs to be something for them to reference in order to take action and avoid moderating legitimate assets (which can, unless otherwise stated, be disputed).

Credit isn’t sufficient enough, you have to respect the license too. It seems that you’ve run into an asset that you’re unable to use on the site, so use something else.

I’m not quite sure what kind of responses you were expecting here other than you need to go out and do your own research before asking questions like this, so that you’re ready to go with information on hand rather than going in blindly. We aren’t staff so we can’t tell you if Roblox moderated your assets incorrectly. Dispute that with support.

If you don’t want to run into this problem again, don’t upload songs you don’t own. It’s really that simple.

[buildthomas]

@Shiny_Seekah

However, my question was more about how certain songs receive copyright claims while others seem perfectly fine and how other creators might upload copyrighted music without receiving strikes.

Because the copyright holder may not have complained yet about those songs that don’t get taken down. Roblox doesn’t take down songs unless the copyright holder complains / has complained before.

It doesn’t make it more or less legal when they’re not taken down. If you don’t own the song, you are breaking copyright, and breaking the law.

There are plenty of free music libraries available online. Using others’ content without their permission because you’re an amateur developer is not a reasonable excuse anymore (if it ever was).