3 Days Into A YouTube Contract, Ludwig Gets Suspended For 'Baby Shark' Copyright Violation

The streamer Ludwig, who made headlines earlier this week when he left Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Twitch for an exclusive deal with Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube, was suspended after three days on his new platform for a copyright violation when he played a brief section of the children’s song “Baby Shark.” What Happened: Ludwig — a 26-year-old Los Angeles resident named Ludwig Ahgren — was livestreaming on YouTube Thursday with an audience of more than 25,000 viewers when his presentation was abruptly stopped and the YouTube platform put up a screen that read “Stream Unavailable, stream suspended for policy violations.” Ludwig posted a video on a second channel he maintains on YouTube and explained that he “ended up listening to a few seconds of ‘Baby Shark.’” He then quipped that he was “pretty sure the overlords who own ‘Baby Shark’ have like an iron fist on YouTube, and so they took me down.” Ludwig also commented on his dilemma via Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), joking that “you could say the switch has been going well…” See Also: Benzinga Live: Short The Stock Market? What Happens Next: Ludwig signed with YouTube after a lucrative stay on Twitch, where he became the platform’s…
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