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Its true.

I was shazaming some music and found an "artist" that used 10 second clips from various music all strung together to create "tracks" that he presumably was trying to peddle for cheap "listens" to get money from Apple. - using the 10 second sound clips makes him shazamable and played is the trick I guess.
Obvious crazy name and AI generated covers and all tracks launched in quick succession to boot.

Apple music does not seem to have a "report" button. But then who could think that people are creating scam music, I guess.
 
I could only find forms/methods to be used by the plagiarized artist, not listeners/viewers.

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Thanks, I might try the Apple legal form.
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No, I will not give my contact details to the original uploader:

The name and email address you enter will be supplied to the provider(s) of the disputed content and, by submitting this information, you consent to Apple sharing this information with the provider(s).
 
The name and email address you enter will be supplied to the provider(s) of the disputed content and, by submitting this information, you consent to Apple sharing this information with the provider(s).
I get it, to a point. If I were a music seller and someone had a grudge against me so had a bunch of people anonymously "complain" about my music, that would be rather a PITA.

I'm not saying you're wrong - it may well be spam. But it's up to the people who OWN the music to report it, not random listeners.
 
That is fair of course, only the problem is that the "music" in this case is not actual music. 🙂
Its not a case of "sampling" or remixes etc. but of someone cutting random pieces of music together not for listening but for automatic playing/payment.

I guess its the opposite of the old spam messages that cut random sentences together to go around spam filters now its about cutting popular music together to be found by shazam...
 
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