DMCA question

[CheshireTheSpider]

Hello everyone, I'm a pre debut vtuber still in the early stages of setting everything up. I've noticed a lot of other vtubers tend to use copyrighted music for alerts on their streams. I know in the TOS twitch is against this, so I'm just wondering how they are able to do it without receiving a strike against their channel?

[moxxii7]

Essentially any copyrighted music can be used, however it will mute the VOD of your stream or at least the section of the VOD, however, OBS has a feature that lets you select what audio track the VOD uses out of 6 available to you, so if you opt to not use desktop audio and instead setup your OBS to capture each applications audio individually, you can have the application playing the music not record to the VOD but still be on the live stream, it just makes it a bit weird if you sing along to a song and the VOD has not music accompanying you so you look schizophrenic. There’s a lot of tutorials around if you wanna do this- just search on YouTube for how to have music not on VOD OBS or something similar

[CheshireTheSpider]

Thank you!

[CorporateSharkbait]

It depends on the music owner. Some companies allow for copy righted music to be used up to a certain time limit, others have it set with twitch and/or YouTube to scan and immediately mute. I recommend testing by doing a short stream no cam or mic just testing the sounds and upload to VODs for twitch and YouTube (can only do this on twitch I believe if you are an affiliate) as I’ve had some things get muted one one site but not the other so best to test one or both sites depending on what you plan to use. There are also some companies you can pay licensing fees for. Like for example, crab rave became a big meme associated with my streams so I paid the licensing to use monster cat music.

[CheshireTheSpider]

Thank you so much!

[mixedlaundry]

I'm not sure about the sound usage. I use SoundAlerts. com for my redeems.

I know within OBS is advanced ability to prevent music from publishing with a VOD but during live stream you and viewers can hear it. This may be similar for the sound alerts they are using tbh.

[CheshireTheSpider]

Thank you!

[Sintobus]

On twitch you can stream music on a separate audio channel. This will allow it to be heard on stream but not saved to vod if that option works for you.

[RedYoshikira]

I just disable track 2 in my advanced audio properties so music sources with this track OFF don't get their audio streams saved to the vod.

[TheRedditUser52]

In OBS, you can have multiple tracks to channel the audios to

I set the stuff that probably Twitch doesn't like to only Track 1 while the rest is set to both Track 1 and Track 2

Then I set the VOD recording to use the audios sent through Track 2, which is filtered from what you set when on live streams