Streamer says she received an email from Twitch warning of DMCA strike for performing covers

Twitch has been cracking down on content that could be vulnerable to DMCA takedowns over the past year and according to one streamer, their policy has gotten a whole lot stricter. Musician and Twitch partner AyyTrae shared during a recent stream that she had received an email from the platform informing her that her covers could wind up resulting in her receiving a DMCA strike on her channel. “Previously Twitch said it was fine as long as you’re controlling every aspect of the music so I was playing the guitar and I was singing,” AyyTrae said. “So it should have been fine but now they’re saying that I cannot have covers of music.” The streamer continued on explaining that she would still be able to stream herself performing the covers but at the conclusion of each stream, she will need to have the audio removed from the VOD to avoid being flagged. While covers aren’t commonly thought of to be targets for DMCA takedowns they still breach the copyright infringement laws over the composition of a song, leaving them vulnerable to being flagged. AyyTrae’s words come just over a week after Twitch sent out a batch of DMCA takedown notices…
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