Remember when Jeff Bezos was asked if Amazon-owned livestreaming platform Twitch was licensed for recorded music — and he didn’t know? Well, it’s licensed now… but not by the major record companies.

Last week, Twitch announced a new partnership with the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA), and revealed a new process for record labels to report use of their copyrighted music. The news ...

Twitch may be finding ways to offer legal music for livestreams, but it’s not enough for some in the music industry. Variety has learned that the RIAA, Recording Academy and over a dozen groups have ...

Hip-hop music festival Rolling Loud is going virtual this fall with a series of online concerts planned to broadcast live on Twitch Sept. 12-13. Rolling Loud was founded in 2015 to be a touring ...

Amazon is leveraging its investment in live-streaming site Twitch to expand its Amazon Music service. The company announced this morning Twitch’s live streams will now be available in the Amazon Music ...

Twitch, after getting blasted by major music-industry orgs for turning a blind eye to the use of unlicensed songs on its service — and frustrating and confusing Twitch creators for deleting their ...

Twitch, after getting blasted by major music-industry orgs for turning a blind eye to the use of unlicensed songs on its service — and frustrating and confusing Twitch creators for deleting their ...