YouTube wrongly flags our Jungle Boat Tours Roblox experience video as a copyright issue over a sound effect

YouTube has flagged and partially blocked one of our YouTube videos for copyright issues over a water dripping sound effect. Because Roblox has been banning innocent users and terminating accounts wrongly under enforcement bans, Angel Girl Brianna is considering making video recordings of all Roblox experiences of Angel Girl Brianna in case those experiences ever disappear. Angel Girl Brianna has been subject to false sexual content claims and was singled out over Club Angel Girl Brianna. Because of the false reports, we decided to make a recording of the Jungle Tours Boat Ride by Angel Girl Brianna – Roblox, and put the entire tour on YouTube. If they succeed with this ridiculous claim, Angel Girl Brianna may lose her YouTube channel and all videos in it will be purged from the internet forever.

After uploading the video, the video was flagged for copyright and was partially blocked from certain countries and likely this will cause our YouTube video to be shadow banned and may face other repercussions over this.

Only ten seconds was identified as copyright violating which impacts my video visibility. That ten seconds of the video was a water dripping sound effect. The water dripping sound effect was playing over and over again in the cave in the jungle boat tours ride on Roblox. So, this clearly was a false positive.

If you can watch the embedded video below, then you will see the evidence that only a mere sound effect is at issue in the entire copyright claim over a song never used in the video.

An email was sent to both the proclaimed copyright holder and the YouTube legal team. A dispute was filed and evidence was filed justifying that it was a false positive. It claimed a song was used in the video, such as “Game, Tama Na! by Eraserheads”.

Upon researching, it is discovered that YouTube’s Content ID does not allow using sound effects as references for their copyright protection system because of the potential issues of many false positives and false identification of similar sound effects recorded around the world would be affected.

See quote How To Recognize And Dispute False Copyright Claims On YouTube – TunePocket:

Sadly, some people submit references that aren’t legit. This can happen either by oversight or by intention.

Such ineligible references include:

1. Public domain recordings and compositions.

2. Creative commons music.

3. Any music that is built with royalty free loops or melodies.

4. Sound effects (that is, sounds that are not music).

Learn more about what reference content is not eligible for Content ID system.

The water dripping sound effect should be protected from false Content ID claims.

An email was sent and a dispute was filed. If they rubber stamp the copyright claim and reject the dispute, Angel Girl Brianna’s YouTube channel may be shut down forever and all videos destroyed which is wrong. All of Angel Girl Brianna’s hard work will be ruined over a ten second identification of a sound effect of dripping water.

Here is a copy of the email sent to both Sony SME and YouTube’s legal team:

SME, on behalf of Sony BMG Music Entertainment,

CONTENT ID: Game, Tama Na!, Eraserheads
Content ID issue on date: January 19, 2026,

CC: YouTube legal email address

I believe the content ID copyright issue on my YouTube video Join the Jungle Boat Tour of Angel Girl Brianna on Roblox #robloxgames #roblox – YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRJHsj__So8) may be a false positive which is why I submitted a dispute. I am sending this email with more information so that I don’t get wrongly account terminated on YouTube for submitting a dispute since I believe I rightfully submitted the dispute on YouTube.

I am willing to make these statements under penalty of perjury as well and submit a federal declaration to this effect.

I screen recorded a Roblox Experience: Jungle Tours Boat Ride by Angel Girl Brianna – Roblox and used sound effects which Roblox normally allows as they also use a similar Content ID system to detect, and block copyrighted materials from being uploaded on their platform.

For only ten seconds of the video upload recording: between 8:31 – 8:41 of the video, YouTube’s content ID system flagged my uploaded video as using copyrighted works of “Game, Tama Na! by Eraserheads”.

This was the sound effect used: https://create.roblox.com/store/asset/6326763933/Cave-Drips – A sound effect of water dripping in a cave.

Prior to this claim, I have not ever listened to “Game, Tama Na! by Eraserheads”, I have never known of “Game, Tama Na! by Eraserheads”, and when I listened to the song to figure out why the Content ID would flag my Roblox screen recording video, I had to listen to minutes and minutes of that song on your official YouTube channel to figure out what exactly is being flagged here. On part of the song, I hear water dripping. There are a lot of people who record sound effects of water dripping, a portion are royalty free or public domain, and even I can record cave water dripping sound effects. It is easy to produce this sound, and I believe the one who released it on Roblox (https://create.roblox.com/store/asset/6326763933/Cave-Drips) had released it as their own creation. They uploaded that sound effect on January 31, 2021, and was modified on May 3, 2022, and is 13 seconds in length. I could be wrong, but I know nothing about “Game, Tama Na! by Eraserheads” prior to this content ID claim and I did not use any portion that I am aware of from “Game, Tama Na! by Eraserheads”.

I submitted my dispute in good faith and hope my account will not be terminated over this issue of a water dripping sound effect I used from https://create.roblox.com/store/asset/6326763933/Cave-Drips.

On the Roblox content creator program, Roblox usually offers royalty free sound effects and allows original sound effects from the original content creator, and anybody who uploads duplicates are usually blocked by AI content moderation for any copyright issues. Trust me, I had permission to upload nature sounds from an audio recorder at Bandcamp and Roblox blocked that upload despite me having permission for using their nature sounds. A royalty free sound effect or Roblox allowed sound effect for cave water dripping was used (https://create.roblox.com/store/asset/6326763933/Cave-Drips).

I don’t see somebody using part of your song just for the mere sound effects. Your song used water dripping sound effects, but I did not use your song in my video. I believe it is a false positive.

Copyright usually applies only to unique works, and usually general sound effects cannot be copyrighted to one entity because it is a sound inherit in nature and is not a work of man. Water dripping can be recorded by any device nowadays such as cell phones, voice recorders, tablets, and computers. Why would somebody want to rip a sound effect from your song when such sound effects are natural, and anybody can easily record a water dripping sound effect. It is one of the more common sound effects used in all video productions, audio productions, and on Roblox experiences.

I hope I am not wrong here, but I am asserting that my video was falsely identified by YouTube’s Content ID and I believe I did not violate your copyright on my YouTube video upload. I believe it is a false positive and would like you to accept my dispute and withdraw your Content ID claim against my YouTube video on the issue of water dripping sound effect. 13 seconds of a water dripping effect does not mean people will not buy your music, and I had no idea a water dripping sound effect can cause such a big issue as Content ID claimed I used a copyrighted song when all I used was a sound effect uploaded on Roblox. I do not own the sound effect as it was uploaded by another Roblox user but that Roblox user allowed his sound effect upload to be used by other Roblox users.

I have recorded many Roblox activities and put them on YouTube and never received a Content ID copyright claim like this except for Ed Sheeran clip being used in Brookhaven RP on a limited basis which I remedied it by removing the song and adding my own song, but normally Roblox audio assets are royalty free or are YouTube friendly. I usually use royalty free music, unique AI generated music, and sound effects which are common.

If you have an issue over the cave water dripping sound, then you can take the issue to the user who uploaded this asset at the following link: https://create.roblox.com/store/asset/6326763933/Cave-Drips.

As far as I know, I have never used your song “Game, Tama Na! by Eraserheads”. I never downloaded that song; I never used that song in my video. Water dripping, especially a sound effect of cave water dripping is based on the common sound effect of water dripping. I hope you can resolve this confusing matter, and I hope YouTube will not penalize me over a ten second identification of water dripping sound effect (13 seconds for the sound effect) uploaded by Roblox user @SpectralTunnelz, Group/Communities of Spectral Party, Asset ID 6326763933, formerly Spectrum Games Party; X-Games Studio.

Also, your copyright content ID claim said it was between 8:31 – 8:41 of my uploaded video, that is 10 seconds. The sound effect used is 13 seconds. So, the discrepancy is 3 seconds. A 13 second sound effect and YouTube’s Content ID have an issue of 10 seconds over a 13 second sound effect being played over and over again to sound like a wet cave with water dripping.

For the following reasons, I believe this is a false positive and this is taking it too far over a common sound effect anybody can record easily. This Content ID issue makes people on Roblox afraid to use royalty free sound effects or any common sound effect out of fear of being accused of a copyright violation of an actual song rather than an actual sound effect.

Please resolve this matter as soon as you investigate this issue.

Thanks,
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