GamingTwitch apologises for mishandling thousands of copyright claims

Twitch has been going through some major music copyright drama over the last few months, being hit with an onslaught of DMCA takedown notifications. In October, this culminated in the streaming platform straight up deleting streamers’ clips and videos that had used copyrighted music without permission. Twitch didn’t even warn the streamers affected beforehand, only letting them know after with a pretty generic email.

In a blog post published yesterday, Twitch apologised for the way they’ve been handling the situation, and explained plans to develop tools for streamers to better deal with copyright claims in the future.

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