How to improve the current handling of DMCA claims
With the issue of DMCA being a bigger issue now than it was years ago, content creators on Twitch are getting more up in arms about how Twitch is handling the entire situation. There are several ways that Twitch could have handled the massive batch DMCA claims they have gotten, but there is no way of going back and fixing that now, so here are some steps Twitch can currently implement to better handle incoming and currently outstanding DMCA claims.
When a DMCA claim is made, the content creator should get an email with which highlight, VoD, or clip was claimed. There should also be a sort option in the video producer each Twitch streamer has access to that allows the streamer to view which of their videos have a copyright claim on it. This would make it easier for the streamer to know which videos to look at for the copyrighted material in question rather than having to cross-reference with an email.
Within the highlight editor itself, there should be an option for the editor to mute the VoD on their own accord rather than wait for a bot to do it or get a copyright claim from a copyright holder. There should also be an option to go in and edit currently existing highlights or clips with an option to mute a selection of audio as well. There currently is not a way for editors to trim or edit a highlight or clip.
As far as handling DMCA claims, there should be a weeklong grace period after the claim is made for a streamer to make a dispute on the copyright claim, delete the video in question entirely, or mute the audio in question themselves. As it seems at the moment, there is no grace period, so if a streamer is hit with enough DMCA claims all at once, their account is immediately suspended, not allowing them a chance to even delete the videos in question.
When it comes to live content, there appears to be no clear direction of what to do here aside from informing streamers about games that are especially risky to stream when it comes to music that is licensed for the purpose of the game itself but not for live streams on top of providing options for music license that streamers can use for streams and the continued curation of the Twitch Soundtrack tool. Maybe sometime in the future, there will be a more definitive answer on how to handle DMCA claims on live content.