Stream-safe music: why it matters and how to check before you ship

You can licence music perfectly legally for your game and still have streamers get copyright claims on their videos. Those are two different rights, and licensing one does not licence the other.

What actually happens: your licence covers using the track in your game. Content ID on YouTube and Twitch matches the audio inside the streamer's recording. The rights holder registered that track with Content ID, and the system neither knows nor cares that the streamer is playing your game.

How to avoid it:

• Look for music explicitly marked stream-safe or DMCA-free
• Ask the composer directly whether the track is registered with Content ID
• If in doubt, ship a "streamer mode" audio option that swaps the soundtrack out

Every audio asset in our library is marked with its stream-safe status on the product page. Has this bitten anyone here after launch?