if twitch had tools to promote the music on stream with links to the music well that would be better. Games that have copyright music in it could be listed on the twitch platform & the streamer could use the game tag so all the songs from the game is listed on the stream to buy.

with the case of the music getting pirated well artist and music companies ect will still at least get some of the revenue and the streamer could promote it more in their stream, the bigger the streamer, the more it sells. no need to copyright stike when there's money to be made instead of no money being made

Also if you improve the platform so your Bot recognises the song played in stream or in the background even if a song is played a little well it will list the song in the music tab with a timestamp which would be incuded in the vod so everybody can see it and has the option to purchase the song. It's a good way to promote with a clear music listed tab that the viewer can view/easily click.

There should also be a music partnership that when the streamer meets the requiredments they will get a very small cut of the songs revenue from links ect listed on their stream/vod. Plus the more songs sold from their stream/vod "partnered/unpartnered ect" should help their channel to grow and get promotes and notice ect. Even a reward tier.

Twitch could even do sponsored music so streamers could promote music anything related. That could be great revenue like they do with sponsored games.

I stream my own music, 100% created by me. Many times, this includes improvised material created on the spot - so it would never be trackable via any digital rights system. Twitch gives no guidelines about this, but should call out specific rules to be sure artists like myself are not wrongly accused of a violation.

I am an ASCAP member of 30+ years, but that does nothing to help me in these cases. Material created in an improv context can not go through the same checks and balances as pre-recorded material released via album or download. Twitch needs to understand how users are leveraging their platform and be prepared to handle these types of artists.

This could be an idea to utilize for current Partner and Affiliate Streamers in risk or in potential risk of DMCA. Whenever you load up any media sharing application on Discord, you have the option to share your screen; in this you can show anyone what is happening on your screen with your audio. For other streamed applications that are restricted for sharing in Discord's system like Netflix and Prime Video ( To say a few). This restriction doesn't allow visuals (not audio) in which you can only hear the video audio and your friends talking in a group chat. I understand the use of blocking music on a stream is near impossible, why not implement a tool for every viewer watching a streamer playing copyrighted music to remove all audio entirely, this change will help streamers in the future completely upon being under a risk for permanent banning and encourage them in a healthier way to stop playing copyrighted music. DISCLAIMER: This solution does not help the current DMCA strikes at the moment, but this tool will allow there to be no audio in the past clips with copyrighted music being played as well, as long as this is implemented sooner.

Creators who pay for music streaming services like spotify, pandora, apple music ect. should be allowed to play music from those platforms on stream. They pay to use a service that allows them to listen to music uninterrupted, and artists and labels get paid for the streams played. It makes sense. Partnering with a music streaming service could be beneficial for twitch as well. Limiting creator's choices in the content they're allowed to use, and punishing them for something they may already pay for isn't right. Please excuse me if i seem ignorant. but it doesn't make sense to me. Let creator's play music, if they pay for the service, they're paying to play the song. Even people who use these apps for free still contribute to the artists and the labels by streaming. it's free advertising for the artists. if everyone is required to add a widget or something is implemented to show the artist and the song and where to stream it how is that not beneficial for all? Allow creators to express themselves through music.

First of all, I'm unsure if this in the right section? (please move to right location if not)

Anyway, we all like watching our favourite streamers right? Some play music and some either don't or play Non copyrighted music for legal/ad friendly reasons.

I would like a 2nd volume control option on the video player itself that is JUST for music that the broadcaster can stream thier music to.

Benefit for the broadcaster;

• Can stream normally and listen to their music without fear of being unable to monetise later. This secondary volume control feed would not be part of archive videos to be able to achieve this. The music would only be in the live video in the moment.

Benefit for the viewer;

• Viewer can watch any given broadcaster with the choice of just watching;
• The casters voice audio
• Game audio
• Completely muting music audio should we choose

I'm not a developer so have no idea if this is feasable or how it would look like to the caster when trying to use such feature, My only request is that Desktop users get this feature first (if it has to be implemented platform by platform)

Currently, only the owner of the work or the agency on behalf of the rights holder can submit a DCMA claim on a stream or a VOD.

However, as a viewer of a few channels, it's clear that some streamers are actively streaming music and video from services like YouTube and Spotify on a regular basis. Attempting to report these streamers links to pages with information with how to report, but "only if it's my work that's being infringed"

One such user was so blasé about their infringement that they openly claimed on stream that "it doesn't matter about DMCA because Twitch will just mute that portion of the VOD". Of course, no DMCA strikes have been issued on that channel (well, none they have publicly mentioned, and because of the fact that they still regularly stream copyrighted material)

I propose a website and rule change such that any channel viewer can flag a stream or VOD for review where the streamer is using copyrighted material.

Granted, this can be abused and so perhaps, if there are too many claims from a single user where the claim was reported falsely, then some penalty can be issued to the reporting user but only in false claims. Reporting users should have the ability to comment or appeal claims they have made with supporting evidence, for example, the ability to point to a timestamp where it's blatantly obvious that copyright infringement is occurring.

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.

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Music license companies put their videos on Youtube and make money through Youtube. They need to be watched in order to make money. There is no problem when everyone watched its videos individually but a streamer share their videos with crowd of people it is problem because this is loss of earning for them. My suggestion is that when the streamer share a music from Youtube, available number of streamer' spectator be reflected music views. In this way even if streamer does not have any right of broadcasting, music license companies lose anything also they make a profit with the help of streamers. Law should protects intellectual property rights but should not punish streamer for something that everyone reachs free.

Proposal: All DMCA strike appeals within 30 days, or another concrete time period. Twitch must have an avenue for creators to submit proof of license for copyrighted music, which should also have a mandatory maximum 30 days review period. Note: This should be accompanied by an additional 'bad actor' appeal option.

An example from my experience: I'm sure I'm not the only one in this boat, but I have purchased lifetime stream rights to broadcast a song made by a small creator. I have provided twitch with that information. I have appealed every muted audio...for months. I even received a strike from a song listed on Pretzel Rocks which specifically only hosts royalty-free music, so no one should be listed as a DMCA copyright holder...Anyway, Twitch has not removed the mute or added a block on this particular claim for months.

I did get a response that said the issue had been "escalated internally" but nothing has been done on the user end and I continue to get muted audio at the beginning of my streams. This is fair use under the scope of the DMCA laws and restrictions. The point is to protect artists but if you pay the artist for the music, you should have a way to notify twitch you own a license for that music and not get strikes for it.