I’ve submitted 4 DMCA requests on Emotes that have stolen my work, it’s getting very close to being a week and NONE have processed.
I’ve been told Rights Manager Removal Requests take 24 hours to at most a few days.
Expected behavior
Removal Requests being processed in a reasonable amount of time.
Page URL: https://create.roblox.com/dashboard/rights-manager
Thank you for the report. We have assigned to our team for further review.
Is there a reason that the only requests going through are those that have been made popular on twitter? It would be best if these could be handled relatively quickly to dissuade the extremely prevalent stealing happening right now.
Attached are examples of just a few emotes being stolen I’ve identified using a tool I’ve made, which analyzes the animation data directly from the curves on the animation preview. All 3 of these user’s have submitted claims against reuploads, they should be very simple to verify as the animation data is exactly the same or slightly modified (anything under 90% is a false positive ignore those).
(op of this thread’s emote, original 78758922757947)
It would greatly be appreciated if this could be looked into asap.
Did yall seriously reject my request after having a week to figure out its stolen when people like cautioned figured it out in 2 days
To the atom its my 1:1 stolen animation data but i guess i still dont “qualify” to have protection
Mines got rejected as well even though it’s a 1 to 1 copy. Hopefully the dmca report email with roblox support will do something.
The US Copyright Office rejects “short dance routines consisting of only a few movements or steps,” as well as “social dances” that aren’t designed for “skilled professional performers”. Fortnite has been sued multiple times for “copying” dances, they won all of the cases. Only very complex dances that can be performed by “skilled professional performers” can be copyrighted.
Your emote probably didn’t fall under this category, and therefore was rejected.
Miratzui is referring to the actual animation data being stolen and reuploaded. Not just a dance or animation that’s been remade in a similar style. The issue is that people are taking the original animation asset, uploading it to the marketplace, and profiting from it.
