#muted stream

Not because it was actually copyrighted, no. Because some brainless clown took a video game song and used it as the backbeat to rap over. Get a load of this:

This song, called "Niiintendo", featuring a koopa troopa plush seemingly brandishing what appears to be a heroin needle, is not, in fact, from a game developed by Nintendo. It's the main menu theme from Sonic Mega Collection. Eventually this guy's "remix" pushes the bass boost button and he starts rapping over it, which the song on tonight's stream never gets to, because it's not a rap song. Twitch seems to think it is, though.

When this happens on Youtube, you get a little box to describe what's going on with the claim. So when some huckster rolled up on a Sonic 2006 video of mine and claimed the stage clear jingle was a hip hop beat, I got to tell them "No, this guy just put a drum track over an existing song, and he's using way more than the 6 seconds allowed by sampling laws." Not only was my claim dropped, I'm pretty sure that guy lost his partnership status with the music label he was claiming it through.

Twitch, on the other hand, has a simple drop down with four options:

My video does not contain the audio as identified

I created and performed the music and I own all the rights

I have permission from all applicable rights holders to broadcast it on Twitch

My usage is considered fair use.

Also the official Youtube video for this song is almost two years old and still has under 300 views. Because of course it does. It's yet another song about how much some dude loves to have sex with strangers and smoke drugs. Me talking about it right now is probably the most notoriety it's ever had, and it's because it's a thorn in my side and Twitch might ignore my plea and tell me to eat shit

I ask because I’ve had a couple of my videos on Twitch get sections muted for.. no apparent reason. It’s like, you’ll be hearing a discussion or video game music or whatever and suddenly nothing for like 20 minutes or so.

That seems a tad excessive even if I HAD been playing something copyrighted, which to my knowledge I wasn’t streaming like.. say, I dunno.. let’s use Weird Al as an example. If I listened to that during a stream I’d at least understand getting something muted (not 20 minutes for typically 3 minute song but okay).

But when the muting seems to happen for no apparent reason it’s like.. did I do something wrong or not? I’ve never gotten a message about WHAT that particular video was muted for other than a generic “audio for portions of this video has been muted as it appears to contain copyrighted content owned or controlled by a third party.”