Twitch drops highlight limitations and enables copyright appeal following user feedback
Cult gaming site Twitch is tweaking the new copyright protection policy that it announced earlier this week, after revealing that it will remove the maximum length for highlight footage. The company has also introduced an appeal button for videos that are flagged as breaching copyright by its new Audio Recognition system — both changes are based on user feedback, it says. Yesterday’s announcement of measures to clean up the site’s video-on-demand content by detecting audio that breaches copyright drew a negative reaction from many Twitch users. Most were concerned by the lack of warning and legal-heavy wording of the policy, which threatens to affect a large chunk…
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