What’s worse, if you had several songs or several copies of videos using the same song, your account probably got hit several times. I did a search and it appears that as far back as July of last month, takedown notices have been happening on Twitter for Wombo videos. So why is Sony going after the unknowing end user and not taking this up with the company allowing the end user to create these infringements?Īpparently, I’m not the only one to have this trouble, either. I just checked, and the song is still listed in the app to create and distribute future videos.

So what’s up with that? There’s a big WOMBO.AI badge on the video to let Sony know where this originated. Not only that, but I saw a very long list of additional users at the end of the email who were also getting slapped for posting Wombos that included this song and one other song. Apparently, the 21 second clip I posted of a FFXIV character singing Girls Just Want to Have Fun was a big no-no. I woke up to find my Twitter account locked and an email that notified me of a DMCA takedown notice that Sony had served Twitter.

This turns out to be wrong… at least when it comes to Sony Music Entertainment. But seeing that Wombo has a paid option for its app, it encourages sharing the videos you make, and it even retweets and shares its own videos on its Twitter, I thought they had some kind of agreement with the companies that owned the music clips it uses. That’s all I used it for.Īre some of these songs copyrighted? Sure, of course. Then I posted them on social media to make other folks laugh. It’s a fun little app that I use to make short videos of my FFXIV character screenshots singing all sorts of funny songs. I put my trust into a deepfake app called Wombo.ai. I’m writing this post as a cautionary tale.

Dmca strike