Bad times for the Twitch community . After many streamers suffered the elimination of many of their videos due to the copyright infringement of several record labels, now things get even more absurd with the marking of some of their videos for copyright infringement from simple sounds of effects in some games.
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Imagine that you are doing a live streaming of Hitman: Blood Money and in the middle of the game the sounds of birds and insects sound. What could go wrong? Well, that is just what has happened to a user, who claims to have received a blockage in the video of his departure, since the service has silenced the audio of the clip due to the violation of the copyright of certain sounds.
I got a copyright claim on Hitman: Blood Money because of the bird and insect noises in A Vintage Year.
– Bad Creature (@ SL128T) November 12, 2020
This and many other cases are beginning to appear in the service. A sound of a police siren in Persona 5 , the sound of twelve o’clock on a pendulum clock … completely incomprehensible cases that are already affecting a large number of users for the simple fact of playing a game.
You muted me for a police siren in Persona 5.
Should we turn off game sound effects too based on that advise then? > ¦ ( pic.twitter.com/zZLY4ZFaQv
– Ominous Bagel (@OminousBagel) November 12, 2020
How far does the license go?
Contrary to what happens with music when streamers play background music while playing or chatting live, this time the reason for the complaint is something as simple as publishing a game of a game. To give you an idea, when a developer works on a game, they use libraries of audios to complete their work, and they access these audios through licenses.
It’s the same process of paying for a stock photo to get a job done. You pay the rights to the photo, and you use it in your work. But can that job be used within another job? That is where the problem in question comes in.
Streamers are making money by using the games (which they previously buy) to broadcast their video, but apparently the creators of the sounds included in those games are not going to allow them to be reused without their permission. Hence the DMCA violation notices.
Twitch already apologized for how things were being managed with the issue of music rights, but it seems that they should not have the situation too controlled if these types of incomprehensible errors now appear.
