ZENmix doesn’t make any claims on YouTube.
But claims will still happen because their system is broken and causing false positives, like mistaking ocean sounds as duplicates. Sometimes, it can be a fraudulent case (e.g., Records DK via DistroKid) where the claimer doesn’t own the rights, or isn’t even eligible for a YouTube content ID, as meditation music is generally not eligible for that.
Now the long answer about YT claims:
Copyright claims on YouTube are a pain and can affect any channel owner regardless of where they buy licensed music from. Unfortunately, the YouTube system is broken and buggy as hell. Resulting in many false positive claims. And sometimes fraudulent people, too.
Let’s explain that in-depth:
First, ZENmix doesn’t make claims on YouTube. To make claims on YouTube, one must have a YouTube Content ID for their songs with complete copyrights or exclusive rights down to the last beat, even natural sounds. Meditation music or nature sounds are generally NOT eligible for that at all.
However, it still happens that old or wrongly acquired YouTube Content IDs still have nature sounds or bells, gongs, etc. in them, and that messes up the YouTube algorithms, and it will file wrong claims.
Based on that ID and the associated song, their algorithm tries to find similar-sounding audio and automatically generates those claims. But that detection is buggy as hell and can get confused by, e.g., ocean waves or drums and believes it’s the same song and makes the claim.
What we do on my own channel is to listen to those claims, find a possible reason, like similar nature sounds, and file a dispute directly in YouTube studio stating that you own a license of the sound and that only e.g. the ocean waves, are similar. We won all disputes.
We advise all customers to do the same; as far as we know, it works for them, too.
If it’s a fraudulent claim, contact us, and we can give you a special reply to your dispute.
It affects all small and independent music producers and channel owners. Still, sadly, nobody can fix it, as we have no control over YouTube.
Bests Jens