Famed guitar YouTuber Ola Englund has claimed his music has been stolen, then used towards him in a copyright dispute. The Swedish participant, who performs in melodic loss of life steel act The Haunted, makes the declare in a brand new video on his channel, the place he has upwards of 800,000 subscribers.

He highlights a copyright declare Chinese language distributor Tencent not too long ago issued towards a video he made in 2021, then pulls up the allegedly “infringed” music on Spotify. There, Englund discovers a person known as “Wybie” has uploaded the guitarist’s 2021 audio to streaming providers and seemingly used it in an try and steal the promoting income on Englund’s authentic video.

It’s then found that many extra parts of Englund’s work, a few of which have been pitch-shifted, have additionally been printed on the Wybie account.

“Taking part in authentic music on my channel has saved my channel thriving for the previous nearly 14 years now,” Englund says at the beginning of his newest video. “My movies often don’t comprise the rest aside from my authentic work. I’m not saying advert income is what retains me alive, however it’s a very huge a part of what retains me alive.”

As Englund explains, a YouTube copyright declare, versus a copyright strike, doesn’t take away the targetted video from the positioning. As a substitute, it lets the claimant both demonetise the video or take the advert income for themselves. A copyright declare may be disputed by the content material creator and, if the dispute goes unchallenged for 30 days, the declare is routinely dismissed.

Englund’s dispute towards the Tencent declare was finally profitable. Nonetheless, at time of writing, the copy of the guitarist’s work uploaded by Wybie stays on Spotify.

Englund’s points with streaming service-related piracy observe a number of steel bands getting targetted by scammers in August and September. Such acts as Whereas She Sleeps, Bury Tomorrow and Thy Artwork Is Homicide had what seemed to be AI-generated music printed on their accounts with out their data or consent. This was seemingly accomplished to shortly make cash off of the bands’ fame, earlier than the tracks may very well be deleted by the artist or their label.