I have a problem with the above mentioned article in Creator Camp.

It offers the suggestion to delete all clips if you aren't able to find a clip that might.... MIGHT be infringing on copyright.

Let's say that I am someone who has been streaming on Twitch for a number of years and that my community (to the best of their knowledge) has not been deliberately clipping moments from my stream that infringe copyright.

Suddenly, I get a warning that some piece of my content has infringed copyright and that the offending item has been deleted. I don't get any information about which item was deleted, nor which copyright was infringed.

So, as the article in Creator Camp says, to be 100% safe from getting a copyright strike, I must either review every individual clip, upload, highlight or VOD on my channel for content which might infringe copyright.

Or, I have to delete all clips, uploads, highlights and VODs. I'll call this 'the nuclear option' because that's what it is - I lose all of my content, and I'm still not sure if any of that content was infringing.

First of all, it's really bad that we as creators need to have 'the nuclear option' in the first place. If there was some kind of log which indicated which item was deleted after a scan by a bot and the copyright that the item was infringing, then we would at least have some idea of what to listen for.

Secondly, the only other recourse creators have is to download their clips and then delete. This is also bad. If my average clip is 30 seconds long and takes up 8130KB, and I have 57 clips, that's a cool 463MB to download right there. That's not too bad, right? I can fit that on a flash drive and have lot of room left over. Oh, but what if instead I had 8000 clips instead? That's a reasonable number for a productive creator, right? And that's only 65GB to download. That's not bigger than a lot of GAME INSTALLS, right?

So you see, creators on Twitch have two really bad options for managing their content to make sure it's free of infringing content. The second of which, while preserving memories from years of streaming, also eats a lot of disk space and temporarily uses up bandwidth and server CPUs that Twitch could be using for better things.

While the article accurately presents the options currently available to Twitch creators, these should not be the only options available and there are several concert halls worth of room for improvement on Twitch's part. The article should be changed to reflect this fact.

TWITCH SHOULD BE REACHING OUT TO ARTISTS AND GETTING APPROVAL FOR ENTIRE PLATFORM!!! Many many many artists would love to be able to have their music played on as many streams as possible. After all, it's FREE MARKETING!! Twitch should work with these labels who own the rights to make these decisions over the artist, and bring music back to streams. Artists get free marketing, labels make more off of that as ewell as the artists, and viewers and streamers alike get a much more enjoyable product that can also lead them to music they love that they might've never found otherwise.

THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE TRAVESTY TO BOTH THE MUSIC AND THE STREAMING INDUSTRIES.

My idea is to help content creators by stopping their channels getting copy write/DMCA strikes and muted VOD's.

The base idea is that no music will be broadcast from the stream, instead the stream will have an extension to music providers such as Amazon music, Spotify and YouTube Music.

When the viewer uses the extension they will be given a copy/paste link that can be used on the music streaming service which will allow them to listen to whatever music the streamer is currently listening to.

This would work like a radio station that the streamer has full control over, the viewer can only listen and adjust volume ect. This is a win win solution that would work for all. Also this gives the viewer the option to not hear any music while watching their favorite streamer/game.

This also has monetary gains for Twitch and the music streaming services used and ultimately the music creators since it wouldn't be a streamer playing music to 30,000 viewers but 30,000 people using the music streaming site.

I'm not in any way an expert on this stuff so please don't roast me too much if my idea is wrong in any way. 😁

I believe that the Twitch Audio Algorithm meant to catch and mute copyrighted material should be improved upon.

Many streamers have had parts of a VOD muted due to a copyrighted song, even though that song is a part of the game, and is in-game audio. The streamer likely paid for the game, so they aren't streaming the game with that song in it for free.

I believe the Algorithm should improve upon looking for audio that is both inside and outside of the game, OR, whenever the Algorithm checks for copyrighted material, a real person needs to give the go ahead for that section of the VOD to be muted.

Similar to the Watch Party. This way Streamers could share music with some of the viewers (prime members) without this whole DMCA problem because only viewers who have access to the songs anyway can listen to them.

The only issue would be how you would handle that the streamer hears the music too, without making it audible for nonprime members. But this way people would still have to pay somewhere to listen to the music to give the artists credit and at the same time it would improve the quality of streams. In my opinion, this would even help musicians get more popular because I personally learned about many artists because Streamers introduced them to me.