Twitch Says It’s in Talks to License Music, Tells Users to Delete Videos With Unauthorized Tracks
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital EditorTwitch, after getting blasted by major music-industry orgs for turning a blind eye to the use of unlicensed songs on its service — and frustrating and confusing Twitch creators for deleting their videos for copyright violations — is vowing to do better.In what appears to be its first official guidance on the issue, Twitch in a lengthy blog post Wednesday told streamers that they must stop playing recorded music on their streams (unless it’s officially licensed) and that “if you haven’t already, you should review your historical VODs and Clips that may have music in them and delete any archives that might.”The Amazon-owned live-streaming platform also claimed that it is “actively speaking with the major record.
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