![]() ![]() We recently received a batch of DMCA take down notifications with about 1,000 individual claims from music publishers. Said Twitch in its email on Friday: “We are committed to being more transparent with you about DMCA. Soundtrack by Twitch is only licensed for livestreaming however, and not for on-demand videos. ![]() Twitch does offer licensed music via its Soundtrack by Twitch tool, which launched in September after striking deals with a number of global distributors and a handful of indie labels from around the world. That’s because Twitch’s policy states that repeat copyright violations will result in an “indefinite suspension” of accounts. ![]() In March, the site added tools to make it easier for users to manage takedown requests and delete clips to avoid strikes against their channels.Īs noted by the Verge, the latest takedown notifications will likely be of concern to those streamers who were involved in the takedowns in June and October last year. It added: “One of the mistakes we made was not building adequate tools to allow creators to manage their own VOD and Clip libraries.” In November, Twitch apologized for the copyright issues occurring on its platform, writing in a bog post at the time that “over the last several months, we have done our best to manage this situation on behalf of both rights holders and creators”. The following month, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos told the House Judiciary Committee at an anti-trust hearing that he didn’t know whether Twitch had licensed its music or not. The mass deletion in October came after the news in June that a number of prominent Twitch users received copyright infringement notices from the platform for music used in clips posted on their channels over the prior year, with the company threatening to terminate the accounts of “repeat infringers.” “This is our first such contact from the music publishing industry (there can be several owners for a single piece of music) and we are disappointed that they decided to send takedowns when we were willing and ready to speak to them about solutions.” The platform is legally required to comply with Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) take down requests served by rights-holders (for example a record label) or by an entity on behalf of a rightsholder, such as the RIAA in order to be protected under US safe harbor laws, and not be held liable for infringing user generated content on its platform. This new round of DMCA take down requests follows news from October that “thousands” of videos had been deleted by Twitch over infringement notices. ![]()
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