Soundcloud’s automatic content detection pulled my mashup - How to circumvent it?
Yeah, my mashup was pulled from Soundcloud via automatic content detection.
I’d like to have it back on and am wondering what’s the best way to do it. I heard changing the tune up or down half a semitone works like a charm.
Any other ideas?
[QUOTE]Hi Hedgehog,
Our automatic content protection system has detected that your upload “Hedgehog vs. Billy The Klit, Calvin Harris & Kelis - Bounce Kliftig” may contain content that is copyrighted.
As a result, we have paused the upload of your audio for the time being.
If you are the original creator of the audio in all its parts, or have obtained all necessary licenses and permissions to upload and share this content, please contact us using the form below.[/QUOTE]
ive found that dropping a useless sample clip at the beginning with a slight pause before it works if nothing else does… bit of a pain but if nothing else works its worth a try
Have you tried renaming it? Just a suggestion. They might have a search on things like ‘calvin harris’ which is why it got pulled again days later. Try using numbers instead of letters.
Another suggestion is to upload a different track, then go into ‘edit’ and ‘change original file’ - see if you can trick it like that? Have to have a pro account for that though I think.
It got pulled now 10 times. I tried replacing letters with numbers in the name.
The mashup consists of three different songs. I uploaded it three times each time without one of the songs in it.
I found out the problem was Billy The Klit - Kniftig and not Bounce by Calvin Harris.
Now I just pitched that song two semitones up and uploaded it again.
It doesn’t sound as good but it is still better than not having it there at all.
You’d be lucky to get a response from the label, technically Soundcloud is just doing what is obliged to legally. Mashups are still a grey area I think.
How did you find out what the offending track was? I had a 75 minute prog psytrance mix tagged by the software. None of it is commercial in anyway. I did write the set list in the description. Is that where the problem came from?
The automatic detection scans the waveform of your track looking for matches with waveforms of tracks that copyright holders don’t want on the site. If you get caught out by that, it will tell you the name of the offending track. It’s happened to me 3 or 4 times.
People can also report your mixes/tracks for copyright infringement and there may well be people who are paid to search for offending tracks and report them, so it’s possible that a track listing could get you caught out, but I have no evidence for that either way.
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