SOME A$$HOLE STOLE MY MUSIC 

EDIT: So I’ve reported the song on the Publishing site of Tencent soooo let’s see what happens next! It might get taken down but I’m not keeping my hopes up 🤷‍♂️ Thanks for the understanding guys, I just wanted to make you guys aware that this is some bullshit happening in the background that you might not necessary hear much about. It was NOT meant for you guys to go and buy my album lol. Just wanted to raise awareness :D

This is unfortunately pretty common from Tencent. They have even said in precious cases that ”copying is not stealing”. I have reported the songs on spotify and I suggest everyone does the same.

A few years ago a French RU-vidr I follow made a video about these abusive claims, and this one seems to follow the same pattern so I'll try to explain what happened : Basically, this Wybie guy uploaded Ola's songs to a music distribution platform in an attempt to steal his ad revenue. This particular platform belongs to Tencent, and from what I could find is called "Tencent Musician" and is basically a Chinese Distrokid. It's in Chinese only and targets the Chinese domestic market. The purpose of these kind of platforms is to easily upload music on several music services (such as Spotify) but also to monitor and prevent copyright infringement of said music online. That's why, as soon as you upload a song, it's added to RU-vid's Content ID bot to check if it's been used in videos. So because Tencent Musician had the stolen song in its catalog it automatically sent a copyright claim on Ola's videos through Content ID. Obviously, uploading third party copyrighted material to distributions platforms is against their terms of use (yes, even Tencent's terms of use). So usually they use similar bots to RU-vid's Content ID to prevent songs belonging to someone else to be uploaded. However Tencent's one is probably less advanced than RU-vid's and I think that's why it was tricked by the change in pitch while RU-vid wasn't. To be clear : it's not Tencent as a company claiming Ola's song as their own, but Tencent Musician as a distributor claiming a song they believe belongs to their user. All that happening because this user is making an abusive use of the platform. So suing Tencent (as recommended by some comments) might not be the best idea. Instead I'd rather try to get in touch with Tencent Musician's support, try to talk to a human (because at this point there was mostly bots involved) make them aware that someone is abusing their platform by publishing stolen songs to steal ad revenue and hope they act in good faith. It's not a given, but I do believe they would have to act on such cases to avoid being considered as complicit of these practices and potentially losing their ability to publish on western music services. (I should precise that I'm not saying that Tencent is a great company, it's a rather awful one, but in that case it's more a matter of someone exploiting a well known loophole of RU-vid's content ID and a weakness in that distribution platform rather than a big masterplan from an evil company)

Great explanation of copyright claims on RU-vid. Sick of all the creative property theft these days. It sucks you have to spend your time fighting this b*llsh*t!

This sucks, Ola. I also had this happen last year to around 60 of my songs.... ended up having to go through the distributor who let it happen to get it fixed. Incredibly frustrating.

Even RU-vid's language is skewed: "the copyright *owner* may not agree with your dispute". Why is RU-vid calling them the owner? Bastards

This blows so incredibly hard, man. Has me worried that it could happen to me to without even realizing it. Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. Best of luck in getting the frauds taken down!

We’ve had false claims on our channel too. There is no punishment or repercussions to the people that do it so they do it over and over again.

Crowd fund lawsuit please. Vengeance must be had.

Dude! I feel your pain and outrage here. I had a company in Vietnam claim copyright infringement on my channel. They filed about 10 in one day and YT shut my channel down. I appealed, and proved the content was owned by me. I even had a lawyer on retainer, ready to go to court and kick this company's ass, but YT would not restore my channel. I am now starting all over with this new channel. YT really needs to get the collective shit together.

"It seems that the expression 'copyright infringement' doesn't translate terribly well into Mandarin." Jeremy Clarkson

Unfortunately, this happens to smaller streamers all time. The only difference is RU-vid gives us no options. They tell us to bend over and take up the ass. My other main account has dealt with it, and a friend's channel was actually shut down because the Chinese thieves put enough strikes against him that it was done automatically. After many, many attempts to reach support RU-vid basically told him "We don't know who you are, so fuck off." Thankfully you have enough pull and are willing to shed light on this.

Not only they steal the music, but they claim it's theirs and want to cut the real artist out of the equation. This is just going to get worse, and artists depend on the good will of another corporation (RU-vid or Spotify) to get things right. Thing is, they also profit from this. It's an exploit, and all of them benefit from it. Everybody, except the artist.

Same exact thing happened to me 10 months ago, someone stole my music and "licensed" it as their own through a distributor to get it on streaming platforms and YT - then claiming the revenue from my video as their own.. Very frustrating, but luckily the YT team was helpful and I was able to resolve it by proving ownership, and then reaching out to the distributor the thief used and get their stuff taken down. Some people are just awful man, damn. I really hope you get this resolved soon. Best of luck

That is absolute BS how this can happen. This is why I halfway hate the digital age we're in for music.

Once, I got demon(itised) and I analyzed the claim, it was during me tuning my guitar!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF! Imagine you have the rights of the "music" of a guitar being tuned...

Dude, I had something similar happen to my band. Tiktok took down my entire band page for using our own music in our music videos.

It’s really eye-opening that RU-vid will side with the perpetrator and give the actual artist the copyright strike, leaving him screwed unless he has the balls to stand up to them, good for you!

People are becoming way too brazen with their copyright infringement these days. So frustrating. Glad you got it sorted.

Had a similar experience recently. A band from Siberia stole my old bands name and all our artwork from 25 years ago. I was trying to show my kid my old bands and I accidently found the band.

Not only is this happening to original music, but there are Chinese companies also claiming that they own royalty free stock music from specific music libraries as well. In my earlier RU-vid videos I used a lot of that as background music, and I used to get claims every month from someone who used it in another song of theirs and claimed that it was theirs. I won every single dispute that I made, but it's such a waste of time. People suck these days, AI is making a lot of things in music worse because of how easily it can claim something as its own and then release it.

someone from China stole an Idea and copied it badly?!? wow....I never heard of that happening. 🤔

If one of those is a song you wrote for The Haunted, I'd get a hold of Century Media's legal team ASAP. Might not help if they stole any of your solo stuff, but any help fighting a giant corp like Tencent is definitely needed.

I've had a similar thing a few times with people uploading my music on BandCamp, passing it off as their own, often with them laying down an absolutely dreadful lead guitar line over the top of the entire song in an attempt to make it different "enough" to be their property lmao. It's enraging - I feel your pain dude. My videos are also being muted by Tiktok for "copyright infringement" when I try to promote my new album, despite being the official artist profile associated with the music :D It's a crazy time to be a musician!

I was about to comment how 5:30 was basically just a recording of Spiro's song but not even a minute later Ola found a recording of his other song. It's crazy how far some people are willing to go to do these things man

Thanks for this, Ola. Also, huge thanks to Rabea Masaad. He checked out this ‘guys’ music and noticed he’d ripped something from my channel also and brought it to my attention. I had the exact same copyright claim some time ago, disputed it and had it rejected. I took it on the chin because the backing track was from JTC so I assumed that maybe they had someone else right the track. It didn’t even occur to me to do a deeper dive outside of RU-vid so thanks for finally finding the source. The cheek of people who think it’s cool to do this is incredible. Makes me think how many other times this has happened to other JTC artists. Anyway, thanks again, Ola!

This is awful that they can rob it unquestioned and that's pretty much it. System is totally broken.

There was a video I saw years ago about why you should copyright all your content by creating copyrighted music that you own which is copyrighted through an external body to the platform, put it into every video, and the immediately making a copyright claim against that video once it's uploaded. That way, it's impossible for someone else to come through and file a claim against it according to RU-vid's policies and you keep ownership. There's got to be a way to do the same thing with other platforms. Pre-emptively file copyright claims against yourself through your external party, like an LLC that owns the copyright on your behalf (and you own the LLC). It's insane the kind of bullshit loopholes you have to jump through, but do what the businesses do and wield the system against them.

Estepario Siberiano had something similar happen to his band The Cost. Someone had taken their songs and uploaded them onto Spotify, claiming ownership of said songs.

We are getting to the point where Global Publishing rights are going to have to be developed to counter these music pirates. Good luck, Ola.

Imagine having balls so big that you knowingly steal someone else's music, upload it as your own, then copyright strike the original artist...blows my mind

This is more common than you think, it is too easy to circumvent the copyright system online and there are foreign agencies out there who exist for the sole purpose of stealing copyrighted work and claiming it as their own for the revenue. There's nothing you can do. Even if you were to file a lawsuit, it would be extremely difficult to track these people down to the point it would cost more in legal fees and foreign private investigators than what it's worth. The scammers know this fully and why they're so brazen because they know they can easily get away with it. I would never just upload original material online unless you have absolute full confidence in your copyright protection and even then, it's a risk. Somebody is going to steal it at some point. We all pirated music back in the day ourselves. Music just has no value anymore and it gives scammers trying to take advantage even more power knowing music has become very independent these days. All the amateurs out there just putting their material out there for nothing just to get noticed is feeding grounds for scammers to claim that material as their own. It's going to get even hairier with AI taking over. What's original and what is AI, who is impersonating who? Welcome to the new world.

File a lawsuit . You have your stems, your project on your DAW, your metadata that can prove that you wrote the music and the exact date you produced it. No worries, you have enough proof to engage into a fight with tencent and claim a lot of money from damage to your reputation and theft, plus some interests. This will teach them a valuable lesson. Napster Trial 2.0 , minus the hate that ensued from the first one ! Good luck.

What a shame that stuff like this is happening! I hope you find a way to stop these a$$holes.

If this escalates, lets do a fundraising for your lawyer? Im all in!

TY so much for showing us how this all works. I'm about to release my first original song and this scares the hell out of me! 😬

What a disgusting behavior. I hope you can go through this dude.

A similar thing happened to Fear Factory recently. Dino was on a podcast/RU-vid interview and said something along the lines of someone posted bootleged live recordings with monetization turned on. Now, FF can not get certain songs of theirs monetized.

This is why i fear releasing my own music. Im not sure how to handle it, if someone would steal my music/songs. Im sorry you had to go through this, Ola. 😕

Ola, it's tough to see this kind of thing happening...and I'm sorry to hear it has happened to YOU! 😪 Personally, I've made the decision to make ALL of my online content "open source" and otherwise "non-monetized free streaming" in presentation...whether completely original or work that "draws inspiration" or is "interpretive" in nature (I RARELY do anything I'd call a "Cover"--especially a "Carbon Cover"; but, by using my approach, it's ALL moot, really.) 🤘😆

Take them down Ola! Sue their ass off and get back millions to invest in your amazing music and guitar company!!! We stand with you!🤘💪😎

This is absolutely disgusting. I'm sorry you have to go through this man. I would be livid!

Here because I saw Bumblefoot share this video. This sucks so much for legitimate artists. I feel like artists are fighting enough of an uphill battle with the way the music industry works before having to worry about lazy people working the system with stolen content they didn't even create!

I feel your pain. I signed a distribution deal for two years and never saw a dime. Reached out to SoundExchange and never heard back. My shit is played all over the world and I get nothing. I spent thousands to create, record, mix and master with big studios in L.A. Tapped out. Good luck🍀

This is the future. Unfortunately. Big name record companies are battling the same shit with this great wonderful A.I.shit that has been developed.

This is infuriating. Good luck with this, Ola. I assumed this would become a more common occurrence in the future we're finding ourselves in.

Fking TENCENT???? Thats fucked up....

Ola, I hope this problem will be resolved positively. I had the same problem twice on my other YT channel. However, when I listened to those releases, there were absolutely no similarities to my songs, which annoyed me a lot. So I think RU-vid also needs to improve its algorithm significantly to minimize these false positives.

And it's just going to get worse. I'm a photographer and we run into the same problems as well, people stealing our shit.

Sick 'em, Ola! This actually made me mad on your behalf. I am sick of the music industry being riddled with scams and rip-offs.

No one should be allowed to upload and CLAIM ownership of ANY music if the platform doesn't CONFIRM and APPROVE OWNERSHIP. It's bloody insane that the online streaming platforms have been allowing this kind of behavior in the first place. They need to be hit with CLASS ACTION lawsuits from all the artists, and they should go bankrupt if they don't FIX this SHIT

This is the lowest of the low, stealing someones creative output. Some people have no shame. Power to you Ola! Keep at it.

But this is exactly why you hear people that are successful at anything in life they're always talking about their goddamn lawyer. My wife and I went and talked to this lawyer one day about some business s*** and that was honestly some of the best money I ever spent just with the advice he gave us and he did write up some papers for some s*** but he basically said you have to have a goddamn lawyer for just about everything especially in business.

Thx for publishing this i had a very similar prolem with (my only) viral video ;-) ...

It happens to us all; i had a kid from france create an amazing house music version of a track i wrote for a soundtrack to a short indie film. And while it was a really good remix/reworking, it was still unauthorized, so i had to send him a cease and desist. This was in 2010, before licensing wasn’t as prevalent as it is today, but we worked it out, i licensed the content to him for a fair price- 1 USD- and he put me on both his copyright and his PRO so i could be acknowledged as songwriter. Im not out there to stifle creativity, but it was at its core, my song. He was really cool about it, and it all worked out. It pays to keep up on where your music is online. It’s far easier to steal your music online the inter webs.

Yep this is something you talked about a little while ago, where you said AI is gonna start pinching artists music, and / or just creating albums, with no effort at all...its beginning! I can feel and hear you ANGST!! I bet it'll be happening with other bands / artists too very soon!

A lot of "songwriters" are taking existing real music and uploading into Suno. The AI will create a cover version of the uploaded audio and after a few attempts, something very close can be realized. If this is how people are going to be in the music biz, stealing music that was put together with hard work and pushing a few mouse clicks to say it's their own, I say fuck the music biz. Hang in there, Ola. Your music is incredible. Fight for it.

Sorry to hear about this mess you're going through, this person needs to be brought down. Follow it through.

Absolute disgusting behavior, and ofc its Tencent so it all makes sense.

That’s very dangerous!! Platforms must develop a procedure to prevent this kind of thing from happening. Otherwise, real artists are doomed !!!

Assholes ruin everything. It’s my main reason for not doing anything anymore. Some asshole will just ruin it.

Huge respect for fighting the good fight, one scammer at a time 🙏🏻

Why would RU-vid or Spotify honor or take anything but a grain of salt from any large Chinese company that steals and infringes?

Ola your cover of the Floods solo and outro was incredible. I still listen to that all the time. Thank you for so much amazing content.

You should make Wybie shirts!

Wow dude... that sucks so bad. Stealing someone's possessions is horrible...But stealing your art, your music, and then claiming it as their own... That's low. And then...the b*lls to say you stole it first...Wow...

This has been a problem on RU-vid for over a decade, and it's unfortunate how RU-vid's systems don't allow for the receiver of the claim to get the claimer's full legal information. I don't know how Sweden's copyright system works, but I hope you take them to task. You have all the evidence and discovery in your favor.

That's fuckjng insane Ola, how can people do this, pisses me off too man, hope you get it sorted out

Dude, that sucks. Sue the crap out of that guy.

Man this pisses ME the F off and it’s not even my music! What a joke, don’t stop until you bury this guy.

This is really scary the way people are now forming for audio content to then claim against genuine artists. It's really going to hit small indie artists.

This is super common. It’s not just in music. We have lots of Chinese companies stealing all kinds of intellectual properties whether it’s art, engineering designs & patents, and no one is doing anything about it. I watched the news piece in America about a small independent band in Boston that had all of their music stolen by somebody in Tencent and got channel strikes on their RU-vid and had their Spotify creator account suspended

Lol! My song ‘Python’ at 5:30 😂

Sorry this is happening to you. I can only imagine the frustration. I had an uncle who used to be an intellectual property attorney in the metal music industry. Unfortunately, he passed away last year but your story and knowing his experiences has inspired me to consider law school just for nonsense like this. I too am an artist - mostly writing but also dabbling in music. I'm sure it will clear up but the whole thing is fucking stupid and you should not have to deal with it in the first place. Best of luck!

You got a copyright claim from TENCENT? They are easy Top 10 biggest companies in China 😅. I guess that’s how they become so rich.

Man, I've been following you for quite sometime now. You inspired me to create my YT channel, and as you I do it to make my music. So this is Terrifying, because you are super well known and super succesfull, but like you said, a court battle with Tencent? It's nuts. I think a while ago Moist Critikal (Charlie) talked about all this stuff... Imagine smaller channels being victims of this, it's scary. You don't have to explain your anger.

Happened to me last year too. Good thing my songs suck and don’t make money though so they wasted their time lol

My God, I’m so sorry that this happen to you Ola. Incredible how stealing is common in the internet Cheers from Poland 🇵🇱 ❤ Stay strong!

WTF?! Nobody likes a thief

This is outrageous - I hope you get this sorted out quickly

You are Swedish, you must have solutions for this.

Honestly theres so many scammers etc out there that be doing this crap to people. But honestly every platform should have one common ground. When you upload theres a date. They could clearly see Ola uploaded it first (duh because its his content) and that should be the end of it on the RU-vid side. Ola your awesome and I've been subscribed for alot of years now and as a fellow guitar player i hope you kick this guys ass by getting him shutdown!!

Sadly, this is just the beginning... AI is here. We must destroy the machine. This definitely sucks ass.

Good to know about this, thank you for making us aware of this!

Wow. Time to go back to recording music on physical media only. Not because it's cool or hipster or whatever, but just to slow down the blatant stealing. Good to hear about YT deciding for you being right, I don't imagine Mr. Big Bad $potify will care.

i really hope you get this sorted ola and s someone jast starting out it really makes you think about putting your own music out there

Hope you get this solved my guy and I wish for the best possible outcome!

It’s important to all of us too! Thanks for exposing these impostors. How low down dirty of them.

And on top of that, there's this whole situation where scammers upload fake AI covers on popular artist's spotify profiles to syphon some ad revenue...

That's ridiculous,someone's life work and someone just stealing it plain and simple...That's great you won the outcome though.Sorry you're having to deal with this,Ola Luv ya Brotha!!!

These platforms should be held accountable for facilitating criminal money laundering, and accomplice to theft.

First the virus and now stealing other peoples music these people need to be stopped.

All the hard work you put in for holes like that to just take it....I hope everything works out in your favor . 8 years following you so I know you definitely put the work in. Have a blessed day Ola 🙏🏻💯😎👊🏻

Oh man, this is fucking brutal. I was always paranoid about putting my uncopyrighted music out there for the world, and stuff like this is the reason why. Of course, I'll never have the fame or notoriety that you do, so not sure why they'd ever steal anything I did, but yeah. Sucks. Glad you got it straightened out with RU-vid, at least.

Happens sadly. The guitarists in like moths to flames stole two of my unwritten songs and plagiarized 5 when I was 15 years old.

I quit youtube because of this exact problem, Just as i was getting somewhere. But in your case with your music, i wouldn't worry too much about it...

After watching this video, I’m now going over to Spotify to listen Ola’s albums on repeat for the next couple hours just to see what I can do to help

Screw these guys. Now you have to monitor this crap? Unbelievable. Thanks Napster

RU-vid's CEO cares mpre about getting rid of ad blockers than fixing their broken ass copyright system. It's disgusting. Hope you get this sorted soon (and nice shirt, Car Bomb are great)

Man, I just have to say, all these years later, my favorite guitar tone of all time is still that OLA - Clean Nightmare preset of yours on ToonTrack's Metal Guitar Gods 2. I use it nearly every day haha. Cheers, man.