SO YOU WANT TO BE AN ANIME WAIFU/HUSBANDO? VTubers have been extremely popular in Japan for quite some time and now they are exploding in popularity with Western content creators in the last couple years. VTubers, a portmanteau of “virtual YouTubers,” are content creators on social media such as YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok; but rather […]
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On September 21, 2021, Twitch and the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) announced a deal to create an alternative copyright enforcement system different from Twitch’s DMCA enforcement. This article is not about the efficiency of such policy, rather, it is to clarify some legal misunderstandings I saw from the responses. Many, including news outlets, hyped
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One of the reasons why I love new media is to see the comradery that comes from one creator working with another. A popular example of this is when Youtubers and Twitch streamers find artists within their own communities to commission artwork for them. Generally this is a win-win situation for both the patron and
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This will be Part 2 of my overview on copyright and DMCA on Twitch. You can find the first article here. This article will focus on common misconceptions brought up by streamers and legal ways to include music on your streams. Feel free to send me an email if there are any other copyright myths
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This will be the first of two posts in regards to streaming and copyright. The second post will focus on common misconception I’ve seen in Twitch chat and legal alternatives to playing music on stream. I’m sorry, but this post will start off as a rant before we get to the substantive part. Over the
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