I had my vod muted and after verifying who was the owner and listen to the song, I discovered that he's not the owner at ALL!
That song or part of that song is a mere copy/use of Apple Loops music and samples free to use even for commercial use or broadcasting by Apple Inc. That package of DVD song/sound/sample is part of the Apple product "Final Cut Studio" that I OWN! So I have the license to use it in Twitch or any other broadcasting use.

Now the problem is the external company that ask Twitch to mute! Those guys should be in jail for fake claims!
They first should send a notice to Twitch, that once received notify the Creator and ask him to send proofs of his right conduct and licensed use of that song/music/sample. If the Creator can't produce any proof then Twitch can have the right to mute. Only in that case.
It's time to STOP those ABUSES from copyright company that do not verify anything a part from using a kind of Shazam system to recognize that 2 different Creators are using the same samples licensed to both by Apple inc?? They must jocking!!!

Why not get together with the Msuic and Movie copyright managment companies ans such, so that you can work out an agreement that allows copyright owners to be paid, and Twitch isns't being sued and spending tons in that effort.

This would pave the way for people to be able to use music, and show things without violation of copyrights. At no time should broadcasters/streamers be given any of that revenue. Why? Simple, the content is not owned by them.

If you can have systems monitor for violations, just set them to place links within the video, and in the descripotion of the video as well. These would link to say AMAZON legit places to buy the content being used.

In effect instead of it being a negative, use the fact people like the content enough listen to it ir show it as free advertisment for the links that allow others whom may be hearing or seeing something for the first time.

I get this will be a huge undertaking, and that copyrights are very complex in many cases. However, what is less complex is the fact you can turn a chash poor situation into a very profitable one, and provide another benefit/feature for people to broadcast and chillax on Twitch.

Let the companies whom wish to profit off of the userbase here cover these expenses.

AbiliTV on Twitch

For Musical Content Copyright Disclaimer there’s a law in the UK called Fair Use under section 107 Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research.
Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statue 5 might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use. Therefore my videos are for entertainment purposes only.
They demonstrate my skills as a disc jockey and all audio was purchased legally..

I’m from the UK, I live in the UK & abide by the UK laws in place..
I do not use any music from the USA therefore i do not comply to American stature or the DMCA who made up a law in 1996/98 to try stopping music from being played/used by DJ’s..

By the way, maybe this site should have an option on it where users can actually contact support instead of making us jump through hoops trying to find a way for contact when there isn’t a way t do so !!!

You created an amazing tool to resolve 95% of DMCA issues and decided to lock it behind Soundtrack by Twitch?? Why? If you give us the ability to tie an application(s) (Example: chrome for spotify/youtube etc.., or even a media player for local audio) to the "remove from vod" obs plugin, there would be no music from anywhere (except from in games) in any vods. Why is the DMCA chaos not solved already with this? Seems like a MAJOR oversite or this is just a way for you to try and push your Soundtrack by Twitch software by holding this plugin ******* inside it.

As a DJ we help labels put music out there by entertaining the masses either if it’s as small as a birthday party to as large as arenas, with that being said. Covid has put us at a disadvantage as we used to serve crowds at a time, now at a time of streaming can we find a way to work with DJs, where you can regulate (i.e DJ’s are not allowed to play more than 1:30 of a track in the risk of being muted/copyright strike) without the Dj set being muted or in the risk of a copyright strike. It puts us at a disadvantage if half of our set is muted.

Dear Twitch Overlords and Emperors (and maybe Mr. Bezos himself),

My name is Rob and I hail from a band called Psychostick, and we've been active professionally since about 2005. We've gone through the gamut of the music business in our own way and have learned quite a bit about the inner workings of the industry.

The DCMA thing is something us artists respect and appreciate, however since this takedown drama started happening, I believe there's a simple (but probably not easy) solution to this problem that terrestrial radio stations have been abiding by since music became an "industry."

Bars, venues, and radio stations all have to pay royalties to labels/artists for playing copyrighted recordings. These payments typically go to BMI or ASCAP, both of which exist to make sure that artists and labels are being fairly compensated for the use of their music.

Furthermore, other internet-based royalty collection services have crept up, such as SoundExchange.

My suggestion is that Twitch as a whole look into royalty collection services for streamers.

My other suggestion for this would be to charge streamers what a "spin" of a song would be. For example, if a streamer were to play a Michael Jackson song, the song-sniffing algorithms would pick up on this, report it to Twitch and whichever royalty collection service they would partner up with, and then charge the streamer PER SPIN of each song.

If playing a recording of a Michael Jackson song costs the streamer something like five cents, charge the streamer five cents and pay the royalty collection service accordingly.

I can say, with complete confidence, that the vast majority of streamers would gladly pay royalties to spin these songs on their stream. It's a win/win - the labels and artists are compensated, and the streamer gets to play ANY MUSIC THEY WANT without worrying about DCMA takedowns.

Please consider a solution like this. I'm sure you might have already.

Thank you!

• Rob and Psychostick

So I would 1st like to point out that there's a lot of missing links on the DMCA talk.

Most of these have to do with the Categories being streamed and what those Categories have Pre-Built in them.

A fine example of this is with EA and 2K and all the EA and 2K Sports Games.

These games contain 1 Major Flaw that will impact the DMCA and that is the Game Soundtrack Music.

For many years the In-Game Music in the Sports Games are all gonna be DMCA Hits as the music is picked by the Athlete(s) on the Cover Art to the Game(s).

If I was to look at an EA Sports Game and I see the Soundtrack has some of my favourite artists in it. I'm gonna be unhappy because I'll have to disable that In-Game Music.

Now think if it's the Athlete(s) who picked the music to be in the game and they chose to become a streamer on Twitch. They're gonna be unhappy and say "I picked this music to be in the game and because of DMCA I can't even listen to my jams?" Now you've lost another Content Creator.

You see this a lot with the UFC and the Impact Wrestling Channels on Twitch. All the fighters have their own Entrance Music they walk out to before they fight. This is Technically a Copyright on it's own as the entrance music picked by the fighter was Licensed to the Broadcasts Or Game(s) so the fighter can hype up the crowd.

Now take that into a Perspective as a Content Creator who's big into watching the Combat Sports. They've acquired the game and have chosen to start a Content Series where they're gonna make their own custom character and go down a career path in the game to achieve a goal.
The creator may be facing an AI Character for the other Fighter. But the same time, these other fighter(s) have the same music they enter to on the Broadcast put into the game.
Now the Creator's in a bit of a pickle. They're not supposed to be playing Copyright Music on their stream. But at the same time, it's unskippable as it's part of a cutscene in that game and therefore they're hit with a DMCA notice. What's going to happen to this Creator now that they've been going for over <Time Span> with the game and then they are hit with a DMCA because the game did it to them?

This needs to be brought to the attention of the Game Devs even more than Creators. If the game Devs are putting the music into the Game(s) and the Creator(s) are the ones being punished because of the music. Then this needs an appeal to ensure all creators are secured and have the freedom of the In-Game Music on their content.

This still doesn't even hit how much harder it is for the Rhythm Game Creators.

Heck! Even Creators who do Art always have music playing on their stream. I personally enjoy the Music while I'm doing art as It's a form of Inspiration to something I may create live on stream.

Prime example of myself using music with what may include DMCA Music. I'm a Multimedia Artist who does Film and Photography along with Video Editing and Graphical Arts. On Saturday 09/18/2021, I went out to a bar for the 1st time in a long time to see some Live music that my friends were performing. My friends are part of an 80's Hair Metal Tribute Band. So every song would technically be a DMCA hit on my end. But the issue of this part is that I was the person behind the camera filming a subject. I then took this subject and started to Edit the video and add in graphics and remix the Audio Levels. Just by me doing this is a DMCA? That doesn't seem fair as it's a form of inspiration to a Work of Art I'm working on at that time.

I personally was on a Long Twitter Thread earlier on 09/28/2021 where multiple Content Creators I stream with said "I really wish I could play <Game Title> on Stream. But at least 1/2 of the music in the game would give me a DMCA.