Ola Englund says his music has been stolen and used in a false copyright claim, “Some asshole stole my music!”
Famed guitar YouTuber Ola Englund has claimed his music has been stolen, then used against him in a copyright dispute. The Swedish player, who performs in melodic death metal act The Haunted, makes the claim in a new video on his channel, where he has upwards of 800,000 subscribers.
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He highlights a copyright claim Chinese distributor Tencent recently issued against a video he made in 2021, then pulls up the allegedly “infringed” song on Spotify. There, Englund discovers a user called “Wybie” has uploaded the guitarist’s 2021 audio to streaming services and seemingly used it in an attempt to steal the advertising revenue on Englund’s original video.
It’s then discovered that many more portions of Englund’s work, some of which have been pitch-shifted, have also been published on the Wybie account.
“Playing original music on my channel has kept my channel thriving for the past almost 14 years now,” Englund says at the start of his latest video. “My videos usually don’t contain anything else other than my original work. I’m not saying ad revenue is what keeps me alive, but it is a very big part of what keeps me alive.”
As Englund explains, a YouTube copyright claim, as opposed to a copyright strike, does not remove the targetted video from the site. Instead, it lets the claimant either demonetise the video or take the ad revenue for themselves. A copyright claim can be disputed by the content creator and, if the dispute goes unchallenged for 30 days, the claim is automatically dismissed.
Englund’s dispute against the Tencent claim was ultimately successful. However, at time of writing, the copy of the guitarist’s work uploaded by Wybie remains on Spotify.
Englund’s issues with streaming service-related piracy follow a host of metal bands getting targetted by scammers in August and September. Such acts as While She Sleeps, Bury Tomorrow and Thy Art Is Murder had what appeared to be AI-generated music published on their accounts without their knowledge or consent. This was seemingly done to quickly make money off of the bands’ fame, before the tracks could be deleted by the artist or their label.
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