Lol! This is dumb.

If I'm using the songs elsewhere I am not understanding the point of publishing on Udio at all. I use udio often but squeeze it into my schedule, like now, I'm on the run. so if anyone has a explanation I'm all ears. thanks

I support this feature. According to the user agreement, if I create a track, other UDIO users have the complete right to remix it, which I don’t think is entirely fair. Delving deeper into this issue in the terms of service, even if I don't publish it on UDIO—say, I upload it on YouTube instead—if someone knows that the song was created using UDIO, they could download the audio from YouTube, re-upload it to UDIO, and legally remix it according to the current terms. I’ve raised this concern in an email to the UDIO team, and their response was that they have "anti-scraping protections in place to mitigate scraping attempts." While I believe that such measures are technically feasible, wouldn't it be better to adjust the user agreement itself?

Moreover, adding a toggle that allows users to explicitly refuse any remixing or downloading would clarify responsibilities. Those who download by other means would clearly be in violation. We shouldn't be discussing the possibilities of copyright infringement or illegal downloading outside the platform, but rather focus on resolving this ambiguity here, ensuring clear terms within our platform.

I can download your track and upload it to a2a anyway. Even if there is no "download" button. Don't publish tracks and that's it.

First if you fgenerate an awesome song, don't share it, then, if someone wants to steal the song, anybody can reccord the audio on his computer and there's no way to avoid this issue than just not sharing in public your tracks, or sharing the one you won't use for your project.

It's a big deal for me, I left this in the request feature thread in discord, I'll post it here so it doesn't get buried

I know you could just "Not Publish." and I think it's time for me to follow that advice even though I enjoy sharing my content.

What I don't enjoy is having people download my music without hindrance and re-upload the content under their names.

Did I create all the sounds? No, but I spent hours piecing extensions together, and I do spend plenty of time writing lyrics without having the A.I generating it for me. I take a lot of pride in my lyrics; it's a therapeutic and creative outlet for me.

Being able to publish and share has led me to a fantastic community, some of whom I enjoy spending time with outside of Udio, and I'm grateful for that connection.

However, that connection doesn't protect me as a consumer on Udio. To issue a copyright strike on YouTube, you have to provide personal information—your address, phone number, legal name. It’s not worth the risk to me.

So, I’m unpublishing all my music from this point on, and may only casually create for personal use moving forward.

Yes

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Having the option to make one's prompts completely private. After all, this is really where the hard work goes for many.

As much as I'd like to say it's a good idea, as far as I'm concerned, it's a long shot... in the sense that, you know, the music industry has never succeeded in eradicating piracy on the Internet. Cutting off access to WAVs is a start, but if a pirate wants to download your song, he's going to do it with or without a download button.

Watermarking every audio file could be an interesting intermediate solution which, without preventing a pirate from downloading your song, would at the very least allow the creator to have proof that he or she is the original author and thus potentially be able to ask Youtube or whatever platform to remove the song in question.

good idea!