Roblox removed commissioned OST because "it breaks Roblox's intellectual property policies"

Hello!
I don’t know what category this belongs to, I’m just really upset right now.

I’ve been working so hard for my game to become better and better, but roblox won’t allow me to.
The audio in question was commissioned to a really trusted person, and i can confirm, it was specifically made for the game.

This situation happend once already, and I’m reaching out to the forum community because when i contacted the staff that time, they basically said there is no exception for audios that have been blocked and that i should wait for the system to be improved…

The game relies a lot on music and i really don’t know what to do, what if the rest of the commissioned OSTs also get removed?

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yea roblox uses shazam or smthn which sucks and triggers their automatic moderation.

iirc this has been a problem forever

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Someone found a similar copyrighted song, it just has 1 similar presset and the rest is totally different. This still affects?

Has the track you commissioned been uploaded or released on any online streaming services? Roblox has awful moderation in general especially with audio, so best of luck getting it resolved…

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Yes!, it’s on youtube and i have a few files of it, I have reported it to the support but im pretty sure they will again reply with “We can’t do anything”. I also have the song that uses a similar preset just in case thats the problem. (i uploaded it)

Roblox is fully aware that songs are being flagged for copyright wrongly, acknowledges it, but just refuses to fix it. I once uploaded The Entertainer by Scott Joplin, and it was taken down for copyright. The Entertainer is not copyrighted as it was made before 1922.

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Hey Paco, it’s glitch.
What I think is the issue is that the commissioned artist probably used a sample that was free to use but most samples still require certain use criteria and then they copyright if you didn’t or can’t add credit.
I actually ran into a similar issue while trying to release ost music for one of my game as well, except on a different platform


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