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TIME TO CUT THE MUSIC?: TWITCH’S UNFAIR SOLUTION TO AN INEVITABLE DIGITAL MILLENIUM COPYRIGHT ACT PROBLEM

JIPL Online

On November 11, 2020, the Amazon-owned live streaming platform Twitch quietly published a post titled “Music-Related Copyright Claims and Twitch” to the site’s official blog. [i] Background. For those unfamiliar with the platform, Twitch.tv

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IP Report 2021

LexBlog IP

It outlines trends, data and legal rights pertaining to patents, trade marks, designs, plant breeder rights ( PBR ) and copyright. Although copyright is an unregistered form of IP, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in increased consumption of copyright work producing industries, being online, audio and screen content.