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Streaming platform Twitch has surprised many of its users this week when it sent out a huge batch of kit pyrite takedown emails. Not only did the streamers report that the messages violated the content they posted, but they also said that Twitch deleted the content without giving users a chance to appeal.
Many Twitch “partners” – people who make real money from their Twitch partnerships – were warned on Tuesday that some of their archival material could be used to infringe copyright infringement laws.
“We are writing to let you know that your channel is subject to one or more of these DMCA takedown notifications and that the identified content has been deleted,” screenshot of email Posted on Twitter Read by streamer Devin Nash. On Friday (October 23) the DMC recommends familiarizing yourself with Twitch’s copyright copyright law guidelines after the email, before resuming the “normal process” of notifications.
Insecure port
The Digital Millennium Copyright Copyright Act (DMCA), which governs copyright online copyright copyright matters in the United States since 1998, is known as a safe port provision. Sites that host content such as Twitch cannot be prosecuted for hosting infringing content If They respond quickly to a copyright holder’s notice of infringement – thus, a removal notice. The butt, like the content owner or YouTube’s Content ID system, flags the content and then removes it as soon as possible after the platform notifies who shared it.
However, under the DMCA, users are also considered to be able Appeal Those judgments with counter-notification, and Twitch’s, are really a counter-notification process. In order to file a counter-notification, affected users must submit a written notification that includes a link, among other things, identifying which content was removed or disabled accesses disabled; Full name, address and signature; And in a statement, sworn under penalty of perjury, that the content was “removed or disabled as a result of error or misidentification.”
At the moment, however, users are not getting that option. Twitch didn’t really tell users what infringing content was attached to their account – it just went ahead and deleted everything permanently, according to emails:
We understand that by deleting this content, we do not give you the option to file a counter-notification or withdraw from the right holder. With that in mind, we’ve processed these instructions and are giving you a one-time warning to give you a chance to learn about copyright piracy laws and the tools available to manage content on your channel.
Why
Cuts and notifications are apparently related to the “sudden rush of DMCA takedown requests for clips with background music for 2017-19”. June said It was received. In turn, a sudden increase in proceedings by the RIAA at that time apparently arose. According to an August CNN report, the RIA sent more than 1,800 copyright infringement notifications to Twitch in June alone, up from about 700 in the previous three years.
Part of keeping your safe harbor liability security, dealing with notifications as quickly as possible. To deal with one over a period of months, sitting on the wide ile throat of instructions, does not qualify as really “fast” by any measure, so Twitch found a way to wholesale campaign. A Twitch representative confirmed to Kotku that the company has gone for a collective action because it is dealing with “thousands” of backlog violation notifications from music rights holders.
Once the twitch is caught, it plans to handle future violations on a “normal” basis. In June, the company said it was expanding the use of automated technology to scan archive clips for copyrighted music, adding that it would automatically delete clips that appear to be infringing copyright infringement instead of penalizing Stimmers. The company Repeat that position Yesterday and that process is implemented on Friday.
Just delete everything!
In the meantime, however, the advice given by Strich to the streamers is undeniable. Users not only have no way of knowing what their clips were marked for, but Twitch’s best advice seems to be “delete everything.”
“To avoid receiving DMCA takedown notifications for recorded content on your channel, we recommend that you take the following actions,” Twitch wrote in emails. “Review your clips, VODS, and any other content from your Creator Dashboard and delete anything that contains unlicensed copyrighted material. If you are unclear about the contents of your archive, you can delete it all.”
Twitch has not provided users with a tool to delete or store large amounts of their content, although Justin Ignacio, one of the founders of Twitch (who left the company in 2018) Shared third-party tool For doing so on Twitter.
