ASCAP/BMI/SESAC/PRS/CISAC/APRA-AMCOS Reporting Feature
It strikes (pun not intended) me that there should be a way to provision a means to report plays/performances (and recordings via VODs) of third party music on stream for the purposes of avoiding DMCA strikes.
Streamers who are already in the music industry are highly likely to be affiliated with one or more reporting agencies in their regions, and most such agencies collect fees on behalf of overseas partners. In this day and age of service integration and automation, it seems logical that there should be a means to compile a post-stream report for an affiliated agency and submit it for monthly reporting and billing. And for non-affiliates, a simple payment gateway that tallies up the costs associated with a report should also be possible. Appropriate reporting/payments should then be able to exempt a given streamer from the scan-bots that are used by the relevant agencies and labels via a simple report that Twitch can pass on to a basic web service.
Many of these agencies are starting to implement stream licensing models for down-market (read: smaller, electronically streamed) content producers. If Twitch were to approach these agencies with a pitch that they could either contribute to the development of reporting features or stop harassing your customers, it's quite likely they might come to the table.
There are third party tools that could be used to assist with this kind of reporting, and could be recruited to share in the integration and development costs - such as Spotify/YouTube/SonglistBot, etc... which could all include a stream reporting mode which generates a list of content played on stream for submission. Reading the streamer's VOD setting would be a simple mechanism for whether to submit for performance/play rights reporting only, or for mechanical copyright reporting as well.
Please consider - the DMCA stuff is as much of a pain for you folks as the publishing platform provider as it is for streamers, and this is a mechanism that lets everyone be a winner.
Regards
Jemma (StoryGirl)
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asubtlesheen commented
I think this sounds like a good idea!