A Twitch streamer sued Twitch and Amazon on 20 August over the use of livestreams to train Amazon’s generative AI. The complaint runs to 37 pages. Counsel filed it in the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division. The case number is 3:26-cv-08721.
Its central documentary claim concerns a contract. Twitch announced an opt-out setting on 12 August. That same day it rewrote the clause of its Terms of Service that governs what it may do with a creator’s content.
The clause that changed on 12 August
Section 8(a)(i) had granted Twitch a licence tied to a stated purpose. The complaint quotes the old wording. It read: “Twitch can exercise these rights in connection with monetizing the Twitch Services.”
That phrase now reads “in connection with Twitch and/or its affiliates’ business”, according to the complaint. Amazon is the affiliate.
