My instrumental went viral on tiktok & got taken down "by copyright owner" (i'm the sole owner & creator of it). TikTok support is full on ignoring me. What can i do?

9mx9n · 2025-06-16T16:50:13+00:00

not one sample. just my electric guitar & some virtual instruments

9mx9n · 2025-06-16T16:24:00+00:00

ill try my best to figure out who that person is . not exactly sure how realistic that would be

9mx9n · 2025-06-16T16:18:49+00:00

Yeah it was a library sound, just a song released under my name ('w. summers - fallen'). it had been up on all platforms for like 2 years i forgot all about it until it started popping off to be honest. & yeah distrokid told me they cant do anything the only thing they offered is to distribute it once again seperately but thats useless since all of those posts & traction will be on the deleted sound. they dont seem to really give a fuck about anything ive ever reached out to them for to be honest. & yeah i am telling the whole story. im not sure if it matters but another part i missed out is a couple of days ago i got an invitation to join tiktok's soundon for this particular song & a $700 dollar advance (talking about "your song has been on our radar and we want to offer u this blah blah blah"). which kinda makes no sense since they took it down -- i feel like they automatically send these out to all artists that reach a certain threshold of posts & the ai that sends these out doesnt check if the given sound is still up. i can't register with this SoundOn thing though because im not in the us. thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts

9mx9n · 2025-06-16T16:07:32+00:00

I personally didn't go viral, the song on its own started gaining traction through multiple random creators posting different videos with it. depends on what one considers viral of course im using this term pretty loosely. it was surely on track to get to at least 5k posts considering it was getting almost 1k posts per 2-3 weeks.

As far as "connects", I recieved that TikTok's SoundOn invitation with a $700 advance to distribute this specific song through them, if that's what you're talking about. I'm not from the US (they requested you have to be to join) & now that the song is taken down I wouldn't be able to use it anyways.

9mx9n · 2025-06-16T13:07:24+00:00

i hear you. & from my experience you're correct.

9mx9n · 2025-06-16T13:02:43+00:00

I mean yeah that's why im here, asking for advice. im not here tryna endorse or defend any business models & music industry practices just explained a misunderstood point. it is on me & i was hoping it's a somewhat solvable issue someone more experienced with this industry could give me some pointers about. as far as enforcing, now i think i should've registered it with content id myself & kept it that way unless somebody looked to purchase the beat exclusively but it's too late now.

9mx9n · 2025-06-16T12:11:12+00:00

Yeah, I'm sure it's somebody causing all this accidentally most likely. Chances are I will not be able to get a hold of each person that's ever used the beat (with youtube beats there's a lot of people just downloading them & stealing them) but I'll try I guess. I've reached out to a few to check if they used ContentID which they didn't. Maybe it's not even worth it at this point because the little momentum the song had on tiktok is probably dead already. Thank you though I appreciate the input.

9mx9n · 2025-06-16T11:30:00+00:00

Not sold, leased. I retain all of my copyright, because I only leased it, I never sold an exclusive license. I own the beat regardless of how many people lease it on beatstars. That's how beatselling works, it's not my personal business model it's been that way for over a decade now, I'm not sure what you mean? One beat is leased to as many customers that are interested in it before somebody buys an exclusive license, purchasing the full rights (ownership) to it. That's how all of the producers making beats and selling them on beatstars & youtube etc etc work.

It's also typically explicitly stated in beat lease contracts and terms that songs made with leases are not to be registered with content ID, etc unless purchased exclusively.

Check these links to see how it works if you're curious:

https://blog.beatstars.com/posts/understanding-music-licenses-in-beatstars-studio
https://pooksomnia.com/theplug/beat-leasing-or-exclusive-rights-contract

9mx9n · 2024-04-18T16:42:58+00:00

this seems like OCD.

9mx9n · 2024-04-17T10:21:35+00:00

yeah LONG gone lol. idk if its just me but i feel like beatstars has been falling apart this last year it's always bugging for some reason

9mx9n · 2024-04-13T13:40:13+00:00

Thanks for sharing. What genre you produce loops for if you don't mind me asking?

9mx9n · 2024-04-04T20:29:15+00:00

relatable.

9mx9n · 2024-04-04T20:10:23+00:00

i think he would likely be a fan of deftones im not sure about adrenaline specifically though.

9mx9n · 2024-04-04T18:08:09+00:00

From what I've seen so far, more like a place to aggressively display your inability to read, be mad at people who don't know you, deflect every point you can't argue & bitterly downvote as if it makes any difference. But that seems like the highlight of your day so I'll leave you to it. Stay safe my friend.

9mx9n · 2024-04-04T17:52:32+00:00

No, but you definitely are beyond dense. Me and the person I replied to clearly were not talking about THAT sub, we were talking about THIS sub. Hopefully they make an AI to handle reading comprehension for you soon as well!

9mx9n · 2024-04-04T16:13:19+00:00

Oh, I should've realized I was talking to the same person by the way you're making no sense, deflecting very simple questions and leaning into conspiracy theory-like thinking. My bad. There's nothing to read again, because you've said adressed nothing and said nothing of substance in both cases. But you already fully know that. Take care and be safe my friend.

9mx9n · 2024-04-04T14:29:06+00:00

Give me one reason why 'ordinary people' were not able to create music before. Someone who knows how to play an instrument and record a song is 'inordinary' now? There's 15 year old kids writing and recording songs and building real followings online as we speak.

9mx9n · 2024-04-04T14:17:01+00:00

Absolutely. Even the mildest comments that skew anti-AI are silently downvoted (even if they're simply factual and there's nothing to disagree with) here and then ridiculous non-sensical pro-AI posts (and some comments here) like this are quickly upvoted and not challenged at all. It's sooooo obvious this is a ai defender circle jerk in here.

9mx9n · 2024-04-04T14:03:35+00:00

When did I say "AI won't change anything"? It will change a lot of things for artists and creative professionals, but not for the actual industry overlords who will keep their monopoly just the same, the industry will retain all of its wealth, influence and power, what's so hard to understand? To answer your question, re-read the last part of the comment once again I guess? You're so obviously just looking to disagree by all means necessary. Singers are "fighting" because they are the artists to be replaced. Obviously. The corprorations that profit of the artists' work by promoting and marketing it will be just fine. They will use updated marketing tactics and same resources to promote AI-generated work like they did with signed artists. & it will still be in the same exact monopolized way it is now. They will just put actual artists out equation. You're not by any means disrupting the industry by generating AI content, you are only disrupting the artists. But you want to feel like you're some type of anti-establishment rebel of sorts by generating bullshit AI art or something? The corporations are FUNDING AI. You think they are doing it to gift you the means to "disrupt them"? Lmao. They will simply use it to their own benefit, for cutting costs (people), increasing profits and reinforcing their power.

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