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I will report instances of copyright claims on YouTube — ContentID or otherwise — in this thread. Feel free to do the same. Ideally reporting back on your method and success of objecting to the claim.

There were a few discussions on the topic before and you can find even more on reddit.

Today I got a "Revenue sharing in your video" email on a recently uploaded video in which I use Dark Orchestral Piece.wav (cc0) by furbyguy. The claim is by FUGA on behalf of Leonardo Travensoli for the 2024 song "Suspense", which might be this one. The preview doesn't sound like it but it seems to be a concatenation of free loops, possibly for the purpose of copyright trolling.

In my dispute I stated something like "I'm a Creative Commons veteran and will take this to the next instance if necessary", followed by a link to the sound, copy paste of the CC0 summary from that page and a link to the linked CC0 page.

The song is credited in the video description though due to CC0 that is irrelevant.

The sound description on Freesound states "Created with Logic Pro X's 'Symphony Orchestra' Jam Pack." - it might be that the uploaded song matches the Logic Pro X loop so much it triggers automatic identification.

The licensing of the original is documented on Wayback Machine.

Update March 11, 2026: I forgot about this. It looks like I may not have received any email notification but the claim is gone. So that was a success, I suppose.

Can't go into details, but I am suing them. One of them immediately dropped their claim upon receiving initial lawsuit paperwork. The other is playing disingenuous and asked me to provide them more information than they already have sufficiently so they can pick it apart and use it against me in upcoming litigation. The third, YouTube, are "reviewing" my production request.

YouTube et al have harassed me continually for years with extortionate copyfraud trolling and in all instances I defeated them until they cheated Feb 8 and 9 of this year (2026) by intentionally refusing to even look at the hard evidence I had the violation notices were false. They also made a rather serious mistake relating to timing that I won't go into here. But know this: at least one of us is suing them. My initial demand will be nine figures. We're going all the way and bringing this to a stop.

You should also know SourceAudio Holdings LLC appears to be in the business of crawling this and other sound effects sites and copyrighting THE SOUND EFFECTS as their own. Wildly illegal and intentional if our research is correct. It definitely appears so and this needs its own thread because if we're right, you ALL have a massive cause of action against them.

qubodup wrote:
Update March 11, 2026: I forgot about this. It looks like I may not have received any email notification but the claim is gone. So that was a success, I suppose.

beautifuldaymonster1968 wrote:
Can't go into details, but I am suing them. One of them immediately dropped their claim upon receiving initial lawsuit paperwork. The other is playing disingenuous and asked me to provide them more information than they already have sufficiently so they can pick it apart and use it against me in upcoming litigation. The third, YouTube, are "reviewing" my production request.

YouTube et al have harassed me continually for years with extortionate copyfraud trolling and in all instances I defeated them until they cheated Feb 8 and 9 of this year (2026) by intentionally refusing to even look at the hard evidence I had the violation notices were false. They also made a rather serious mistake relating to timing that I won't go into here. But know this: at least one of us is suing them. My initial demand will be nine figures. We're going all the way and bringing this to a stop.

beautifuldaymonster1968 wrote:
You should also know SourceAudio Holdings LLC appears to be in the business of crawling this and other sound effects sites and copyrighting THE SOUND EFFECTS as their own. Wildly illegal and intentional if our research is correct. It definitely appears so and this needs its own thread because if we're right, you ALL have a massive cause of action against them.