Twitch warns the creator after receiving 1,000 DMCA claims from the recording label

The copyright problem Twitch will not be lost. In the e-mail shared by Esports Consultant Rod Breslau, the company warned that recently received a batch of around 1,000 notice of DMCA notification. All claims involve archived broadcasts, with most of which display streamer listening to music in the background while playing games or talking to their viewers. In the same message, Twitch said it believed the publisher using the automatic tool to produce demand, suggest more on the road.

“We recently received a DMCA Takedown notification batch with around 1,000 individual claims from music publishers,” said Spokesman Twitch to Engadget, echo the email sent by the company. “All claims opposed VOD, and most claims target streamer listening to background music while playing video games or streaming IRL. We want to make sure the creator community we realize that the only way to protect yourself from DMCA notifications is to protect themselves from DMCA notifications is not to drain music – or other copyrighted material – they don’t have the right to. “

Takedown DMCA has become a sustainable headache for the Twsch community. It all starts last summer when the company says seeing “the entry of” Takedown notifications “. Like this latest episode, most of the clips involved that have risen on the website for several years. Twitch has tried to overcome the problem first by expanding the number of free songs He offered to streamer. Then publish blog posts explicitly urge them not to use copyrighted music. Because every notification represents a potential attack on an account, another wave of the prohibition can be on the horizon.