Roblox removing songs licensed under Creative Commons Attribution

[moo1210]

@complexlint

Currently Roblox does not have a way to validate licenses for music.

This is not an ideal situation and we are aware that this negatively impacts developer workflows. While we work on improving these issues I would suggest looking at the marketplace for similar audio assets or creating your own original music.

For what it’s worth, you’ve been telling us this since early 2020… In the introduction of this system in May 2018, Upcoming Music Changes and Copyright Related Action, we were told to email dev relations, who would actually resolve the issue in the short term. But then, sometime in early 2020, DevRel responded to those requests saying that such is no longer possible. And now, of course, the DevRel email address doesn’t even exist, and there’s no possible way to reverse these claims as of right now. (unless your RoBeats?)

We need some type of borderline proper music licensing management, much sooner rather than later. This isn’t something that should just be that there’ll be a solution in a few years, to be delayed a few more years.

Additionally, this staff member in another bug report, provided context about “one of the ways we detect copyrighted audios”, I’m guessing this is referring to one which is the cause of these issues.

@complexlint

My previous post about copyright was a bit confusing. At Roblox one of the ways we detect copyrighted audio is through a third party service called AudibleMagic. Many labels and distributors (including Magroove ) will publish audio tracks to AudibleMagic so they are not used by others. For some of the files uploaded here I believe the matches are false and will be passing that on to make sure they will not be caught in the future. I will update this thread when I get a response for this.

The other issue you are running into is allowing others to use your audio that has already been uploaded to AudibleMagic. Unfortunately we do not have a solution for this problem at Roblox. Supporting licensing permissions is a multi-year project that we are just starting to look at. I know that this is probably not the answer you are looking for but I wanted to let you know the situation as it is currently. We are very aware of the creator’s issues with audio and are working on improving the experience for everyone over the next few years.

How all of these songs are ending up on AudibleMagic seems quite odd to me, either through mistake or bad intentions. I’m going to look into this further at some point.