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Threats, blackmail and obscene language from kinoforallmanager's profile on AudioJungle

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@BenLeong @KingDog I would like to draw your attention to this user.

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Wow, this is interesting. He seems like an unreasonable person and foul-mouthed.

Apart from that how did Elite Alliance find your music? On youtube?

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Yes, a copy of the film in question was uploaded to YouTube. This character responded extremely rudely by email, even to Elite Alliance employees.

Did he buy the correct license?

Can you prove the antecedence of your music? Deposit on the blockchain, use your copyright society deposit and transmit all this to Elte Alliance.

Thereā€™s no problem with that.
The film was released in 2020. All three of my items were published on AudiojJungle in 2016.
The fact is that when Elite Alliance requested a license, he responded with a link to Google Drive, but this link was with closed access. When the Elite Alliance requested access, he responded with rudeness and that was the end of it.

Heā€™s lost the case already. I donā€™t think heā€™ll ever be able to file a case.

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Iā€™ve also had some strange messages from the same user.

I guess becuase my username is Score Studio? The music isnā€™t mine, and I had trouble understanding what the message was actually saying.

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Hello. Thanks for your response. Strange messages is an understatement.
And yes, my items sound according to the specified time codes. This was caught by Content ID YouTube and confirmed by Elite Alliance. But this man does not calm down and continues to threaten, now to my YouTube channel, there is something wrong with his head.

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What a nightmare. I agree, itā€™s clear by the way they write, that something isnā€™t ā€˜rightā€™.

Yeah thereā€™s definitely some inappropriate comments there. Feel free to flag them and weā€™ll remove them.

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@ScoreStudio Iā€™ve a big favor to ask of you, which will only take 1 minute of your time. I would be very grateful if you would reply to the comment that this strange person left under your track. Please do me this favor.
It seems that he will not calm down and will continue to stalk me on the Internet until he is sure that the affected track have nothing to do with you.
Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks anyway.

No worries, Iā€™ve replied saying the music isnā€™t mine. I hope he calms down!

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A few words about how it ended.

I found the contact details of the president of the company (Ā«Uncorkeā€™d EntertainmentĀ») producing these movies and contacted him.
He called the film producer. It turned out that some soundtracks had indeed been used without licensing. The licenses were acquired and the correct PRO data was put into the music cue sheet instead of the erroneous data.

By the way, the malicious account kinoforallmanager's profile on AudioJungle was not used by one person, but by a group of people (the official distributor of the U.E.).

I admire the messages they initially sent in response to our attempts to start a dialog. Just look at this magnificence:

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We had a general chat between myself, my ContentID administration agent, the film producer, the head of the U.E. company, and the mentioned distributor.

I hope the president of the U.E. company takes action after this. ā€œKino for all managerā€ should be stripped of distributor status, they are ruining the reputation of their partners.

I decided not to forward requests to Envato support to remove comments. Let this be a public demonstration of what kind of inadequate individuals we (the authors) sometimes have to deal with.

If it werenā€™t for Content ID, I would know nothing about this case, as well as many other previous similar cases of unauthorized use of my items in some cinema products, video games, etc.

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Let this be a warning to those authors who do not register their works with Content ID. This third quarter payout in October 2024 will be just under $2K and the 4th quarter has started very well also. You must register your tracks and signfy this status when you upload your tracks here.

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Let me share too this yearā€™s data as a warning about the extent of unlicensed use.
The following statistics for my items.
Total number of claims initiated for 9 months: 89,000 (67,000 active + 22,000 inactive/cleared)
Payout range for this period: from $2K to $7K (monthly)
The average number of disputes processed daily is 57 (12 of them usually donā€™t have a license,
among this number there are major cases like the one described above).

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I, even began to register my tracks in Spotify, Elite Alliance and Identify dont scan there, because i found a lot of my tracks registered and uploaded there without permission.

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Do you go after all unlicensed use on youtube? I see that my tracks are unlicensed too but they generate income through ads, hence I dont go after them.

The same way. A strategy was chosen to forcefully monetize videos that do not have licenses. All of the income mentioned was generated from such videos.

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