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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Twitch is giving users a new way to avoid copyright takedowns when using music in their livestreams -- and it doesn't involve licensing deals with major record labels. By Billboard Staff Twitch is ...

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 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 ...

Beginning Wednesday, whenever unauthorized music belonging to Audible ... protect both our broadcasters and copyright owners," Elizabeth "Boo" Baker, Twitch's general counsel, wrote in a company ...

But some suspect Twitch’s latest changes–flagging videos with copyrighted music and no longer storing broadcasts forever on its servers–are part of a larger effort cleaning house before ...

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 ...