I don’t know if this is an ongoing issue with other people, but it has irritated me enough to make this post.
So, I’m a person who likes a lot to compile music for my playerbase to be able to use freely, with already 380 songs uploaded. However, there’s one issue I’ve been facing recently in the past weeks, including dating back to a incident back in 2023.
2023
Back in early 2023, I created a boss fight for one of my previous games. The song in question was Xtrullor - Rip It, and it got approved first try. I would go on to make a 2nd boss fight, this time using Xtrullor - Samsara. Then, suddenly at the end of 2023, the first song would get nuked for copyright, and further uploads would get the same treatment aswell. I checked if it was copyrighted, which apparently yes, but no. By giving credit, and not using it for commercial purposes.
What exactly would “commercial purposes” be, though? And for further confusion, the 2nd song, which is ALSO by Xtrullor, hasn’t been deleted/copyrighted since it has been uploaded. But is it because it followed the conditions, or is it something to do with Roblox’s AI moderation?
Games using said custom-uploaded songs
There’s likely a ton more, but here are some examples:
- Uses the songs Warak - Reanimate and t+pazolite - CENSORED!! Both which trying to upload nowadays seem to always get nuked for copyright, despite those being in the game since 2022 (And they’re not bypassed either!)
- This game features a catalog of music similarly to what I have in the start. In here, you can find even more Xtrullor songs, such as Xtrullor - Paracosm. And yet again, trying to upload them yourself will likely have it removed in a instant. They’re not bypassed either, too.
Conclusion
I could be the wrong one here for perhaps misinterpretating said issues, but I can’t be completely sure either. Does the AI delete those songs off the copyright list, or does it delete them because it knows there’s already a existing version of the uploaded song? I wish to get a response, or any sort of comment on this, because I still don’t understand why and what is occuring here. For a final example, I’d like to use Creo. I’ve uploaded a ton of his songs, and none of them have been deleted, despite some having the same “Licensing Terms” as previously mentioned:
Using Newgrounds to see licensing terms could be “unreliable”, but I’m not too sure on why Creo songs get approved if Xtrullor songs with the same terms, get deleted.