Twitch to scan videos for music that violates copyrights

Game video service Twitch will scan videos afterwards for music with which the uploader violates copyrights. If the service finds copyrighted music in a video, Twitch will mute that video. Twitch will not scan live streams for music.

Twitch will scan videos per half-hour block; if there is a snippet of copyrighted music in that block that the user has not paid for, the service will turn off the sound in that half hour of the video.

That also applies to music in games and music that users play in the background, the service says. Twitch is a service that allows gamers to create videos of how they play and upload them to share with others. Often these are live streams, but users can also post the streams as ‘rags’, videos on demand.

Twitch has partnered with Audible Magic to scan the videos for music; that happens automatically. If the service finds music, a notification will appear in the video as to why the sound has been turned off.