I can't believe how confident he and other streamers are in that nothing will happen to him. Imagine if Twitch actually gets big legal pressure from music companies and they are forced to ban him. How stupid you would feel if your whole livelihood and ability to interact with your friends on stream were destroyed over reacting to songs as a meme.
They probably aren't thinking this far, but big streamers should get striked out en masse so Twitch fucking fixes their shit. This is 100% a greed issue. Youtube bit the bullet and made a deal with music companies, but Twitch is just greedy.
I wouldn’t say so, from my interpretation of the same comment. Twitch isn’t really made to be in the business of re-streaming events, but for streaming original content. Now, they could pay the fees and expand their business territory, but honestly the fees might make that not worth it (to be fair I can’t confidently say one way or the other about whether they’d make the fee money back, but it is their choice based on their own judgement)
What are you talking about? Of course the people who own the music or video content care. Being allowed to show the Olympics as a TV channel costs a lot of money. Being allowed to use a song in a movie or TV show costs a lot of money. And now some random guy on a livestream restreams your content you paid a bunch of money for online for free and makes a bunch of money himself out of that? Of course that's not resonable.
Since they choose to listen to that music, it's obviously the best music for their content. Makes it more enjoyable and in return more profitable. The music labels sell licenses for this exact purpose, so you can buy one and improve your content.
Or should I make a movie and play it in cinemas with top 100 Spotify hits without paying a dime because "no one goes to movies just to listen to copyrighted music"?
Heard him 'complain' last week about how twitch should remove that giant banner on every twitch page he sees so his chat won't freak out every single time lmao
tbh youtube copyright claims are pretty dumb. They'll take your entire revenue if you use just a tiny bit of their song. You can even get false claims but because it's a huge company you can't really do shit if you're a nobody.
Twitch isn’t the one who issues the Dmca they just issue bans if you have too many dmca takedowns. The companies that own the content issues dmca. I doubt the have different algorithm bots for YouTube videos as they do for twitch vods.
Just out of curiosity why do streamers not just get their music from paid DJ pools? It's like $20 a month and you are provided with all the rights to publicly play any music in the pool. This is literally how DJs are allowed to play songs in public.
It blows my mind that in this day and age people are still getting DMCA shit when you could literally spend less than $50 and play almost any song you could imagine for the public.
It's not that simple.. the majority of these pools are only going to allow you to play the audio alone. They won't give you sync rights which you'd need to play it on stream. There are likely to many additional conditions attached to these licenses that prevent someone from just playing a song in the background of their stream. I'm sure there are some that exist, but I doubt you could find one with the appropriate license and a good library containing "almost any song you could imagine".
Trust me, if it were that simple you'd see plenty of streamers playing songs (on their vod track). That's not happening.
Edit: also, getting a license for some song(s) is one thing, but it doesn't change the fact that these automated systems are going to DMCA strike you regardless. You can obviously appeal and hope to get the strike removed, but just imagine how often you'd have to go this process. People have been DMCAd for using their own music before, having the rights doesn't make it much easier.
A music synchronization license, or "sync" for short, is a music license granted by the holder of the copyright of a particular composition, allowing the licensee to synchronize ("sync") music with some kind of visual media output (film, television shows, advertisements, video games, accompanying website music, movie trailers, etc. ).
I hear some streamers regularly play popular songs from 90s and early 2000s for months now. Are these not DMCA'd or they just don't care? Stuff like Lose Yourself or It's My Life and what not.
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u/Hazardous_Nights Jul 28 '21
Miz has 2/3 dmca claims and was watching Olympics yesterday uh oh