Twitch published a blog post today with the relatively anodyne title “Music-Related Copyright Claims and Twitch.” What was in it, however, was anything but. The ...

The relationship between Twitch and the music business has been growing increasingly strained over the past couple of years over the presence of copyrighted music in livestreams and VODs.

Twitch partner Kate Stark was in a meeting when she got an email from Twitch saying some of her videos had copyrighted music in them and had been deleted. She panicked. “And then I went to ...

is that Twitch is an emerging music platform, with plenty of opportunities to integrate copyrighted music, if only Twitch would cooperate. On June 8, Twitch tweeted about a “sudden influx of ...

Twitch has a clear message to streamers: don't play songs that you don't have the rights to use. In a blog post, the service shed some more light on the huge uptick in music-related copyright ...

Right now, users stream music in their videos, and Twitch has no liability for any resulting copyright infringement, as long as it responds to rights holders’ takedown requests, per the 1998 ...

Twitch streamers love using background music they don't have the licensing ... that videos in their back catalogs were in violation of copyright rules and were being deleted without an opportunity ...

Twitch still does not have music licensing deals of any kind with Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group. More details are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.

Twitch countered by stating that Soundtrack is not in violation with any copyright laws and is partnered with music organizations like SoundCloud, CD Baby, EMPIRE, Create Music Group ...

Twitch has come up with a solution for the ongoing copyright issues that DJs encounter ... streamers on Twitch who incorporate prerecorded music from artists into their own mixes.

The broadcast is also said to have included some copyrighted music, another potentially bannable offense. Looking at the slightly bigger picture, this is MeatCanyon's fourth Twitch ban since 2022 ...