Not a lot of the music streamers/performers have their own music. A lot of us music streamers are also people trying to get to the industry but still have no resources or skills to their own music. Our main way to get through the first step is covering and practicing music from original creators. We know we don't own all of our music but we want to learn and start from these music. We also know that all music are influenced by others as well. So this is kind of impeding us to share music and to grow. I know Twitch is just one of many resources but still it creates a great impact to a lot of the musicians in the platform who want to launch and practice.

A lot of streaming platforms are okay with it as long as it is done with the musician's own flare and not using the full copyrighted instrumental. So maybe that could be a start. Please allow us to showcase and grow.
Or at least have a licensing fee for musicians to play covers. :(

Hello folks, I'm constantly being told that my playing of someone's soundcloud is stealing their music by Twitch, because you're blocking parts of my livestream. I'm DJing it and DJing is not a crime. I need to see this dealt with because I'm a music creator and a lot of my original material was also censored. This is getting out of hand on Facebook as well, so Twitch can be a much better platform by allowing users to discuss copyright issues, instead of this one way street system you have of censoring me needlessly. It hinders creativity and you have A LOT of music being played on Twitch these days, so you'll need to step up your game here. Please contact me to discuss. Thank you. Catie Gutierrez

For the DMCA / copyright issue, you can agree with youtube somehow and open a bar above the chat (temporary). This bar can be a place behind the song that the broadcaster wants, just like twitch's relationship with the prime video, where we can control the sound ourselves or turn off the song. In this area, the first question is whether the broadcaster can play the song they want in the background, and we have two options: "play" or "not". When you press yes play, let the song play in the back and add to the number of views of the song that is played in the back as much as everyone who presses yes listen to

I translated this text from Turkish to English using google translate. If I have mistakes, there is the original text at the bottom. If you can translate, I strongly recommend that you look at it.

DMCA/copyright sorunu için youtube ile bir şekilde anlaşıp chat'in üstünde bir bar açabilirsiniz (geçici). Bu bar yayıncının istediği şarkıyı arkada tıpkı twitch'in prime video ile olan ilişkisi gibi sesini ayrı kendimizce kontrol edebileceğimiz veya şarkıyı kapatabileceğimiz bir alan olabilir. bu alanda başta yayıncının istediği şarkıyı arka planda çalıp çalamayacağı sorusu geçer ve iki seçeneğimiz olur "çalsın" veya "çalmasın". evet çalsın'a basınca şarkı arkada çalsın ve evete basan herkes'in dinlediği kadar arkada çalan şarkının izlenme sayısına eklensin

Acho que quando uma musica possui direitos autorais a gravadora poderia ao invés de fazer uma denuncia colocar a sua marca d água em um canto sobre o conteúdo através de uma ferramenta da Twitch informando que aquele conteúdo e de sua propriedade. Afinal rádios divulgam musica e acho que as lives de Djs também. Eu não recebo nenhum valor pelas minhas lives a não ser a satisfação de meus amigos. Estaria também disposto a repassar 100% dos valores auferidos com anúncios das gravadoras pois não faço lives com interesse financeiro.

I think that when a song has copyright, the record company should instead of making a complaint put its watermark in a corner on the content through a Twitch tool informing that that content is owned by them. After all, all radio stations broadcast music and I think that DJs' lives also do it for free. I do not receive any value for my lives except the satisfaction of my friends. I would also be willing to pass on 100% of the amounts earned with record companies' ads because I don't have lives with a financial interest.

Laut der SUISA (Schweiz) ist man schon vor einer Einigung, ähnlich wie auf MIXCLOUD ein System zu nutzen?

Es müsste doch für Musikliebhaber auf allen Seiten möglich sein eine Lösung zu finden, dabei wäre eine "Premium Funktion" doch sinnvoll. Wer Musik nutzen möchte, zahlt monatlich einen Beitrag mehr, also der Nutzende und der Konsumierende. Davon profitieren alle, auf Mixcloud funktioniert dies einwandfrei.

Aber wie ist das? Ich sende 1x monatlich aus einem offiziellen Radio Studio, das Lizenzen bezahlt, sprich also auch meine Sendung. Sollte ich ja keine Strikes erhalten?

Gebt DJs bitte auch eine Plattform.... wir brauchen euch und ihr braucht uns! Vor allem jetzt in dieser schweren Zeit blutet unser Musikherz!

Voila ça fait un moment que je vois beaucoup de streameur justifier le fait de passer l’accès de la rediffusion de leur live uniquement a leur abonné a cause du robot qui strike leur vidéo

Ils expliquent que ce robot ne passe que sur les rediffusion public et que donc, de ce fait ils sont obligé de restreindre leur accès pour éviter de se faire attraper par le robot en cas de DMCA

Et forcément quand tu commence a avoir une dizaine de streameur qui utilise cette pratique, tes capacité de rester sur Twitch baisse car l'abonnement a chaque chaîne commence a coûter très chère, au profit d'autre site de streaming ou ils reposteront leur live, j'ai l'impression qu'on va vers une généralisation de ce procédé, l'abonnement comme obligation pour avoir accès au rediffusion

Ma proposition serait donc de faire passer le robot également sur les vidéos qui ne sont accessible qu'aux abonné, les traiter comme une vidéo public (A défaut j'imagine de pouvoir retirer le robot) pour éviter que tout les streameur soit tentés de passer a ce modèle pour ce protéger, si aujourd'hui la gratuité de twitch ne dépendait que du live, mais que le contenus de rediffusion lui serait payant je ne sais pas si ça serait si bénéfique pour le site

Hello The idea is in general ,
You as a company could turn this around in a bigger picture ,
here is how you go about this Pitch the idea of using Twitch / Amazon as new way to drive sales for Record labels .
How it would work ,
Twitch gets a new part of the UI/UX where the music played in the stream this would be basically be literally a piece of the UX UI that would link to the store where the user could buy 1 song the whole albums , CDs , Vinil, etc .
why is this an approach if a viewer likes the music and they hear it on a contents creators stream they are more inclined to buy , if you manage to figure out how to provide part of the cut to Partners and affiliates even better .
Record labels get a cut , Twitch gets a cut , creators get a cut . win win win . additionally if you can manage some how a way how content creators can purchase this music at a discount its the biggest win situation .
Record labels get Advertisement for free get money from sales , Twitch partners up with labels , and creators can earn a small bit of the pie. and in the end i am sure you can figure out also how to push it more in to sales like you can pick out partners that can do advertisement for new records if they get published . Think about it

First off Twitch, you are very wrong if you think that I or many other affiliate streamers who receive zero exposure from your algorithms are worried about DMCA. Maybe the big streamers are more easily influenced by their contractual obligations, but not the rest of the community who make no profit or gain by streaming on your platform.

Secondly, let's start off with a little about the music industry and licensing itself. As a founder and operator of an online radio station, I have paid alone in licensing/royalties over 8 years close to $10,000. I am a firm believer that musicians and songwriters should be paid. Sadly enough, only a very tiny percentage of that money paid in to licensing gets to the songwriters and musicians. Ask any musician in Nashville trying to break into the industry and they will tell you they make less than $2/month. Why is licensing a radio station important? If you are using someone else's music for a profit or gain, it's very important to have a license and pay royalties. The more profit you make, the more royalties you pay. This is how to avoid copyright infringement and to be fair. I'm stating some of the obvious here for a reason. The Twitch Streaming platform is a bit different from a radio station. The platform is not a radio station itself. The content on Twitch varies majorly, from artwork to gaming, to IRL Chat, to DJs playing music. Your email had an interesting bit of information that over 99% of the notifications were for music in the background playing. Why is that? This should be a clear indicator while there are some streamers that play music/DJ/compose as part of their stream, most streamers do not focus on music as the centerpiece of their streams for profit hence 99% "in the background". When you watch streams and see subs and donations, the comments associated with the subs and donations say it all. They go to the streamer for THEIR time and content, whether it be painting pictures, playing their viewers favorite game, etc. The background music has no relevance in their success and profitability. The whole point of DMCA was to combat copyright infringement, the process of taking someone else's work and using it for profit or gain. Why are YOU TWITCH worried about DMCA? Do you think we are dumb to believe that "you were surprised" that this sudden increase in May had anything to do with Covid and the move from real world to virtual and increase in streaming?

Third, while other platforms saw a significant increase during Covid-19, your viewership while having a short incline is now falling for most streamers. You've lost streamers to other platforms. Don't think we streamers and viewers did not see this. Your platform is simply becoming less beneficial to most people whether streamers or viewers. Your insistent forcing of commercials by spending time, money, and resources to thwart viewers ad-blocking technology is driving your viewers away but you don't even bother to stop the constant harassing of bots in our chatrooms begging us to buy follows for our channels. When the viewers go away, so does the revenue for the bigger streamers. The bigger streamers then move to another platform. You also consistently ban hard working streamers with double standards in your rules, allowing other streamers who break the same rules a 2nd, a 3rd, and a 5th chance. You appoint a board with members who have serious mental issues. So again, tell me why you think we are worrying again?

You may want to rethink your strategy and work hard to secure an agreement with the labels and entities filing DMCA takedowns to lay off the 99% of the streamers not profiting from music in their streams, or there will be legal action against the PROs and entities who only pay a majority of starving musicians less than $2/month in the billions of dollars royalties they [record labels and any other entity filing DMCA takedowns] collect. Don't believe me?? Ask any starving musician in Nashville.

Twitch, you better figure out which side of the fence you want to be on because this is going to end badly for someone, and it won't be the streamers. That's not an idea. That's a promise.

[Edit: "they" = the record labels and organizations filing the DMCA takedowns]

Most game's have licensed music like RDR2 or other games that have music imbedded in at the start middle or otherwise in the game, being muted or getting a strike or muted because of in-game music is a bit wrong when it's outta the streamers hand's no matter how much we minimize thing's like that do happen!! Take a step back for a bit and make sure it's worth a copy right strike!! Those of us that stream the game with no music except for what we can't help during the game shouldn't have to worry about being banned or getting a strike!! We do not intend to break the law's or rules we just play the game and have fun and enjoy chat!!