Bob Tik Is Being Accused by means of Content Creators of Stealing and Copyrighting Various Audio Clips

Jan. 13 2023, Published 5:03 p.m. ET

If one thing's for positive, it is that TikTok utterly changed the face of social media (for better or worse). The app has taken the arena by means of hurricane and in doing so has transform the hotbed of almost everything viral that happens on the web these days.

One essential part of creating TikTook movies and their eventual virility is the audio clip that accompanies the uploaded video.

TikTok has noticed a countless quantity of song snippets, sound bytes, and other audio parts cross viral and be reused hundreds of thousands of instances, but who is creating wealth off of all of that?

Well, it's not the creators in numerous instances, it's people like Bob Tik, who has quietly copyrighted probably the most maximum viral sound bits on the internet...none of which he made himself.

Who is Bob Tik? He appears to be claiming copyrights over more than a few TikTookay audio files.

On Jan. 10, 2023, TikTok user @slamuri took to the platform to call out anyone by means of the identify of Bob Tik. The video is captioned, "I am calling on every single creator on this platform. You need to see if you’re affected. I was a very small creator when it happened to me. To those who watched this I greatly thank you. I am willing to assist any way that I can."

In the video, @slamuri explains that the person known as Bob Tik has been quietly filing for copyrights over various audio clips that experience long gone viral on the web over time. By doing this, Bob Tik is successfully making the most of audio clips that he didn't create.

He makes use of a selected instance of YouTuber Kinetic001 who @slamuri explains had a viral gaming clip 15 years in the past that Bob Tik got here in and copyrighted the audio from as his personal.

That issue was addressed in a YouTube video through person 3klicksphilip, who known as Bob Tik a "copyright troll" and shined a bit of more gentle on how precisely he perpetrates those efforts. That video has been considered nearly part a million times.

In the aforementioned TikTookay, @slamuri explains that Bob Tik stole audio from a viral video that he created as smartly and in the process made kind of $25,000 off of licensing for the audio.

Bob Tik's true id stays unknown for now.

Despite all this, @slamuri doesn't think there may be any means for people to forestall Bob Tik from doing what he is doing until creators "band together and figure out his true identity" to be able to power him to cease stealing audio.

As of the time of writing, there's no option to confirm the claims made through both @slamuri and 3klicksphilip. The state of affairs has garnered some attention on Reddit the place customers are suggesting workforce legal motion towards Bob Tik, however there's no verifiable information about who he in fact is, the place he's from, and how the case would be pursued.

Many Bob Tik tracks (across Youtube, Spotify, Soundcloud, and Apple Music) are uploaded very ceaselessly, are written in a couple of other languages, and feature repetitive electronic song loops.

Per one intrepid Redditor who seemed into Bob Tik, "Somebody pointed out that this might be a way they used to trick audio recognition algorithm. This also make sense because I've listened to some of their tracks, it usually have a small pause, an audio clip starts to play then it back to music again. [sic]"

The user went on so as to add, "For the 'Door Stuck' case, they outright used the original audio, looped and altered it then uploaded it as 'Stone Door' to trick copyright algorithm. So their scam involve: insert content into their 'music' to claim copyright, and use altered titles of their "tune" to exploit legal loophole. [sic]"

With no verifiable knowledge on Bob Tik, all customers can do at this point is attempt to document for their own copyrights over viral audio clips from their movies.

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