A number of popular gaming stars on video-streaming platform Twitch were temporarily banned, after their channels received DMCA strikes for using copyrighted music.
xQc, Sinatraa, Daequan, Alfie, Avxry, KittyPlays, Pokelawls, Sneaky, Castro1021, Nico, Symfuhny, and Solluminati have large and growing audiences on Twitch for their gaming skills, but the appearance of commercial tracks in the background of their recent streams – a song by rapper Juice Wrld has been identified as the cause in some cases – led to takedowns filed by the IFPI. “This organization has asserted that it owns this content and that you streamed that content on Twitch without permission to do so,” explained one notice from Twitch to an affected streamer. “
As a result we have cleared the offending archives, highlights, and episodes from your account and given you a 24 hour restriction from broadcasting.” Gaming site Kotaku reports that several of the gamers have since been unbanned, amid suggestions that they may have been hit “by accident” by automated takedown notices. Still, with games like Fortnite drawing huge audiences on Twitch, the platform will only become more visible to rightsholders and their representative bodies if music is being used (whether deliberately or not) in videos.
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