Twitch, Amazon slammed by RIAA and major industry groups for using unlicensed music


Twitch has been slammed for providing streamers with the use of songs while neglecting to strike deals with all three major music labels as well as many publishers and other rights-holders, and lacks other rights on the songs it has licensed. — Bloomberg

LOS ANGELES: Twitch, the rapidly growing livestreaming platform, and its owner Amazon received a blistering letter on Thursday signed by multiple major US music organisations including the RIAA, the Recording Academy, the National Music Publishers Association, the Music Managers Forum, the American Association of Independent Music, SAG-AFTRA and more than a dozen others over its lack of licensing deals with many major music rights-holders.

The letter is addressed to Amazon founder/CEO Jeff Bezos, with Twitch CEO Emmet Shear on copy (a full list of signatories appears below).

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