Important: I just speak about how to use existing mechanics - I don't discuss the actual mutes behaviour. 90% of my material "survives" and so I'm fine with it.

Twitch could identify songs, mute and the more tell the dj (appeal function) which material is muted and also could separate muted from unmuted material.

1st tool / "precheck": It should be easy to create a tool for dj's to upload playlists and get a ok/not ok feedback from tool.

2st tool / "ok list": Twitch could identify the unmuted music played every day by dj's and pass out an index/list with all unmuted music + a search function for.

I know that there will be a tolerance for fails and errors as we know, but will give back personal freedom to DJ's.

I would like to get all of the streaming platforms, some big name streamers from each, some partners, some affiliates, and some just starting to stream, and then get them together with Record Labels, some of their artists who are both for and against us using their songs in online streaming, and a panel of congress men and women to sit down discuss the Copyright and DMCA Laws, and then work together to Change it to benefit everyone.

It's time we sit down and discuss this matter to ensure that things like playing music on a video game stream, is covered under the DMCA for folks who either Own the actual Record, Tap, CD, or MP3 format of the music and are playing it from their PC, or even those who pay a subscription fee to a music streaming service. Or, at the very least (and yes i did see this in the list already) have us as streamers who want to play music have the option to pay you for a licensing subscription fee so that we can play whatever we want and not get hit with DMCA Strikes. However, we want you to set it at a fair price, let's say $5.00 a month. This is to ensure that the music industry gets their cut, but if they (The Record Labels) decide to get greedy you push back and let them this is non-negotiable and that you will not be bullied like they did with MTV.

I appreciate that copyright exists and I as a creator need to respect those rules however I believe music is an integral part of my streams and my current growth on twitch. I have no problem removing and replacing some songs in my playlist however there has been a tremendous amount of inconsistency when it comes to what parts of my streams are being muted.

I would love a way of knowing which songs and why are getting copyrighted so I have a chance to learn from the problems and not just be told I'm doing something wrong.

I appreciate everything the twitch community has said and done for the past little while about these situations, but I would appreciate a little more transparency considering we're all people.

Just help me out and let me know how I can keep growing in a DMCA friendly environment and not be cut out of the loop of creators.

Thanks Twitch team!

I was wondering if the policy of parody lyrics could be clarified. Most of your policy says as long as a good attempt is made to match the lyrics.

However some comedy channels might want to use parody lyrics improvising a parody acapella on the spot.

we're not using a recording of the song but we are singing in the cadence and notage of the copyrighted song but we're singing alternate lyrics.

Like for example I noted that the Billy Ocean song Love Zone happened to come out at the same time that we discovered The warp zone in Super Mario Bros that naturally led to the 4 lines of a parody. If there was social media back in that time that would have been funny.

If I listen to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture on my stream, it will be flagged as a copyright violation due to there being some copyrighted performances of it. (And yes, there are plenty of non-copyrighted performances available on the internet, which are 100% legal to use in this way.) Appealing that the copyrighted work does not appear in my video is a very slow process, leaving my VOD muted for most of its lifetime. And then if I use the exact same piece of music again in the future, it's going to be muted again, by the same faulty copyright bot that flagged it in the first place.

Please, give us a defense against this. If I've successfully appealed a piece of music - and by "successfully" I mean that the response comes back saying that the VOD has been unmuted - then that should be a defense against getting that same piece muted in the future. Block the bot from autoflagging the same piece over and over again every time it gets used.

Copyright is being used as a weapon - a scattergun. The copyright owners don't suffer when they flag things they don't own, and we as streamers do. We have no defense against repeated false accusations.