Twitch suspends DragonForce guitarist Herman Li for playing his own music
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Re: Twitch suspends DragonForce guitarist Herman Li for playing his own music
#2Well, did he just write the songs or does he own the copyright? The former isn't enough to make this a wrongful suspension.
Re: Twitch suspends DragonForce guitarist Herman Li for playing his own music
#3Well, did he just write the songs or does he own the copyright? The former isn't enough to make this a wrongful suspension.
The DMCA takedowns have their nets cast too wide. Uncopyrighted works get taken down all the time.
Re: Twitch suspends DragonForce guitarist Herman Li for playing his own music
#4Re: Twitch suspends DragonForce guitarist Herman Li for playing his own music
#5DMCA is trash, anyone enforcing corporate greed on ordinary humans is fundamentally evil and worthy of banishment.
Re: Twitch suspends DragonForce guitarist Herman Li for playing his own music
#6Well, did he just write the songs or does he own the copyright? The former isn't enough to make this a wrongful suspension.
Its an automatic copystrike
Re: Twitch suspends DragonForce guitarist Herman Li for playing his own music
#7Re: Twitch suspends DragonForce guitarist Herman Li for playing his own music
#8Well, did he just write the songs or does he own the copyright? The former isn't enough to make this a wrongful suspension.
Copyright doesn't cover live performances, this would be ASCAP licensing or something similar though it seems if he's "playing his own music" then none of the above should apply.
Re: Twitch suspends DragonForce guitarist Herman Li for playing his own music
#9Well, did he just write the songs or does he own the copyright? The former isn't enough to make this a wrongful suspension.
So absurd that an original performance of a copyrighted song is an infringement.