One day Ola Englund logged into his YouTube channel and noticed a copyright claim on his video named "This Is Gonna Pi$$ A Lot Of People Off". The video featured Englund playing his song "Cringey AF", and was being claimed by someone named Wybie saying it was their song "律动乐章(纯音乐)". Furthermore, the "content owners" were listed as [Merlin] EWway Music and Tencent Music Entertainment Group, which isn't true – it's Englund's music.
As it turned out, the person (or entity, business, etc.) named Wybie was actually uploading Englund and other people's music – some of which was possibly AI generated – to streaming services and claiming it was theirs. Englund notes that he's continuing to fight the claims on both YouTube and streaming services, and will probably get the record label Century Media involved since Wybie also uploaded an instrumental playthrough of a The Haunted song that Englund wrote.
"I filed a dispute for this and eventually… I actually won this [claim on YouTube] and they released their copyright claim on YouTube video, so it seems at least on the YouTube side of things you know I will get the ad revenue for this and you know, everything's fine," said Englund in the below video.
"However, now starts the proceeding of me you know, trying to take down this guy's album right here because he's potentially making money by uploading my music again. Which is fucking stupid. That pisses me the fuck off."
On the fact that this happens to artists at all, Englund added: "For an artist, I mean this is the like, the last thing we have left. It's not making us a lot of money but it's just… it fucking sucks man. I just want to make you guys aware of that I have this problem and you know, I have to spend time fixing all of this. You know, time I could have spent writing fucking music."
