Since I am an intro maker, I made this project that has collected a variety of intro music, which took me hours to collect. Well, a few days after I shared it publicly, I got this message:

The project seems to be innocent. I don't know why the Scratch Team has accused me of this, because I have seen many other projects with the same concept and they still haven't been taken down. Can someone please provide advice on this? Is this an issue, or a mistake?
Thanks,

orangetheory

Generally, projects that include music as the main focus are basically just copying music. You probably wouldn't want someone to copy something from you while not making adaptations to it or using it to support their material, with or without credit, as it would seem like the stealer's creation.

While you were likely not trying to copy the music like this, rather sharing the tracks because you like them, playlist projects do still fall under this takedown reason because their focus is still to play music. So you'll have to do something else.

D-ScratchNinja wrote:

Generally, projects that include music as the main focus are basically just copying music. You probably wouldn't want someone to copy something from you while not making adaptations to it or using it to support their material, with or without credit, as it would seem like the stealer's creation.

While you were likely not trying to copy the music like this, rather sharing the tracks because you like them, playlist projects do still fall under this takedown reason because their focus is still to play music. So you'll have to do something else.

The weird thing is, I've seen projects like mine with over a thousand views and have been on the site for months not get taken down. What makes them different, and how are they not taken down like mine? Are they not noticed, even though they have 1000+ views and mine only has 3? I can't link the projects because that would be name-and-shame

orangetheory wrote:

D-ScratchNinja wrote:

Generally, projects that include music as the main focus are basically just copying music. You probably wouldn't want someone to copy something from you while not making adaptations to it or using it to support their material, with or without credit, as it would seem like the stealer's creation.

While you were likely not trying to copy the music like this, rather sharing the tracks because you like them, playlist projects do still fall under this takedown reason because their focus is still to play music. So you'll have to do something else.

The weird thing is, I've seen projects like mine with over a thousand views and have been on the site for months not get taken down. What makes them different, and how are they not taken down like mine? Are they not noticed, even though they have 1000+ views and mine only has 3? I can't link the projects because that would be name-and-shame

Sometimes the ST misses things, maybe they ended up running into your project but had to take it down. Another example is, there are probably cloud whiteboard projects that are still up, even though several of them get taken down since there's the potential to write messages.

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