

Please check the attribution method before usage. Pretty common places to do attribution are links in the bio and bot commands on your stream. Some may cost you some money and some places require attribution. Note: Please note that royalty-free music doesn’t necessarily mean free music. Is to start playing royalty-free and no copyright music! Scroll down for a list of choices. The best bet and safest way to not get your VoDs muted while playing music in your stream.

When Twitch’s automatic system notices that you are using copyrighted music your VODs will get muted and you could get penalties by playing copyrighted music. They are made by companies/creators straight to Twitch.)Īs a streamer, it’s really important to be aware of the rules regarding music played on your streams. What usually happens when you play music in your streams?įirst, let’s cover what might happen to you if Twitch notices you are playing music in your streams (Please note the Twitch bot doesn’t make those DMCA notices.

After that, you send Twitch the written permission that you have got from Lady Gaga’s manager, etc. The Twitch automatic bot still mutes your VOD:s and you may get penalized. Is a pretty much impossible thing to do also.Įven if you would get permission to play Lady Gaga’s latest hits album. Trying to get permission for every song that you play that is playing on the radio. Since the artist isn’t getting any income of played songs that is not usually okay. So it’s perfectly normal to hop into some stream and there are some cool tunes playing on the background that fit the game.īut actually, that is not okay from the copyright perspective.

Playing music in streams has been something that streamers have been doing for years already. I have actually talked with some streamer friends and they didn’t know that playing music might result in DMCA strikes. I’m pretty sure you have already seen that many popular Twitch streamers have been getting DMCA strikes from streams and clips that were years old.
