
Music streamers, in particular, are concerned about the penalties being handed out and are seeking solutions to the issues that Twitch poses when its service intersects with legal licensing requirements. It looks like the DMCA restrictions are being enforced not only against past clips and videos on Twitch, but also on livestreams.

Lead guitarist Herman Li announced during the GCX charity stream that tracks from those albums would be able to be played DMCA-free, and that creators could play those tracks "without having anything to worry about." In addition, streamers will not be able to sing songs they dont own at karaoke, as well as to make covers of them, include them in DJ sets,performing numbers under the soundtrack, visual presentation of music or disassemble the tablature. Since then, Dragonforce has confirmed that its last three albums-Extreme Power Metal (2019), Maximum Overload (2014), and Reaching Into Infinity (2017)-are now available for streamers to use on Twitch. Twitch is now prohibited from playing tracks from music streaming services such as Spotify. The DMCA takedown notices issued to various content creators were not the result of Twitch changing any existing fair-use politics, but the result of existing DMCA laws being enforced against the platform in a visible way for the first time. We know many of you have large archives, and we're working to make this easier. If you’re unsure about rights to audio in past streams, we advise removing those clips.

📢 This week, we've had a sudden influx of DMCA takedown requests for clips with background music from 2017-19.
