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17 J. Bus. Entrepreneurship & L. 154 (2023-2024)
The Legal Liabilities of Twitch, Amazon's Livestreaming Subsidiary

handle is hein.journals/jbelw17 and id is 155 raw text is: THE LEGAL LIABILITIES OF TWITCH, AMAZON'S LIVESTREAMING SUBSIDIARY Jean Fang I. INTRODUCTION.............................................................................. 155 II. WHAT IS TWITCH? ........................................................................ 156 A. TWITCH'S VALUE FROMA BUSINESSPERSPECTIVE....................157 B. TWITCH 'SMUL TI-TIER CONTRACTS WITH STREAMERS ...............160 III. CONFLICTS BETWEEN TWITCH AND ITS STREAMERS ARISING FROM CONTRACTUAL WEAKNESSES ............................................................... 163 A. A DIVE INTO TWITCH 'SAFFILIATE CONTRACT ........................... 163 1. Controversial Contract Update: Excessive Ads And New Revenue Split................................................................................ 166 2. Prior Existing Contractual Issues......................................... 171 3. R ecent G am bling B an .......................................................... 172 IV. FAILURE TO PROTECT STREAMERS............................................... 175 A . THE PARASOCIAL VIEWER .......................................................... 175 B . THE CHILD PREDATOR .............................................................. 179 C. HATE RAIDS AND TARGETING OFMINORITY GROUPS................ 184 D. HARMFUL ACTIVITYLEAKED ONSTREAmS ................................186 V. RECENT TWITCH COMPETITORS..................... . ..... ............ 188 A . K ICK . C O M .................................................................................189 B. YOUTUBEANDFACEBOOKSTREAMING .....................................190 V I. C O N CLU SIO N ................................................................................190

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