Talk:Audio/@comment-37872592-20190425110352/@comment-43720381-20191013222756

In late May 2018, Roblox signed a license agreement with APM Music, a music company that produces and licenses soundtracks for usage in films, TV shows, video games, and commercials. Soon afterwards, thousands of APM Music tracks were uploaded onto the Library by ROBLOX which allowed developers to use free music without risk of copyright infringement. More information can be found in this tutorial.

Audio Removal
Notice that would appear on audio flagged for copyright On May 30, 2018, Roblox announced on the DevForum that they will begin an automated process to remove all copyrighted audio from the site on June 18.[1]  This means that developers can only use audio produced by themselves, Roblox's licensed audio or non-copyrighted audio. Most popular audio on Roblox is copyrighted, so moderation action will not be taken on anyone who has uploaded audio that falls into this category before the changes take effect. Flagged audio cannot be played on the website, are marked with the pictured notice, play a randomly-selected APM Music track if attempted to play in-game, and have their name and description be replaced with "(Removed for copyright)".

Roblox has stated that the main reason for this is to give the Corporation itself better first impressions to future companies that they want to work with. Similar to the Pokémon Brick Bronze takedown, if an artist or record label found out that their music was being used by a site or user without permission (especially for monetary gain) then it would most likely lead to a lawsuit if action was not taken by the host. On July 4, 2018, after the audio removal was completed, a bug arose in which users who uploaded copyrighted audio would be terminated, due to a glitch in a bot which gave the user double robux when refunded.[2]  This was later fixed,[3]  although the community is still skeptical about uploading audio. This incident lead Cindering to complain about Roblox's moderation in this devforum post, which is trending with over 200 likes, as of July 9.