When Twitch was hit with mass strikes over copyrighted music in June, it sent content creators into a panic storm. Since 2014, Twitch has been working in partnership with Audible Magic to scan Twitch ...

Creators in the Twitch community have been blindsided multiple times this year by an old foe, a recurring problem with livestreaming that's reared its head the most recently. Every year, it seems, ...

Over the course of the last pandemic-filled year, Twitch has become the go-to place for a lot of musicians to perform and interact with fans without breaking quarantine. The fact that it was actually ...

Streamers are creating their own sound effects and testing their vocal chops in a bid to skirt copyright claims. What's a Twitch stream without any music? Some of the site's streamers demonstrated the ...

Twitch streamers may find new copyright issues with old content. Credit: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Big changes are coming to Twitch. And the Amazon-owned livestreaming ...

Twitch’s past three weeks have been bleak, to say the least. Late last month, the company abruptly purged thousands of streamers’ videos and advised them to delete all remaining clips in advance of a ...

With streaming service Twitch having to reassess its DMCA rules in recent years, many streamers have been hit by a series of copyright strikes pertaining to music played in the background of their ...

It’s finally happening: Twitch is taking action against copyrighted music—long a norm among streamers—in response to music industry pressure. Today, hundreds of streamers received emails from the ...

Following a wave of DMCA takedowns back in July, many Twitch streamers on the platform have begun receiving a new round of emails warning them of copyright infringement on their channel. Instead of ...

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Metallica rocked their hearts out but Twitch muted their music throughout their short and live performance because it feared a DMCA takedown on its end, signifying that it is not safe even for them.