Do performers violate the law while using copyrighted material? Is there any other problematic behavior? In our second empirical study we observed streams. We found possible law infringements for both users from Germany and from the U.S. (Table 7), but there are only minor differences between streamers
from Germany and the U.S. In both countries, the
most common potential violation was the copyright
infringement of music: a total 37.0% of German and
44.3% of U.S. streams. The second most observed potential
illegal behavior concerned possible violation of
personality rights. The actions chosen for this category
were filming third parties, showing pictures of third
parties, reading aloud chat-conversations (or similar)
with third parties, or putting phone conversations with
third parties on speaker during a stream, all without
consent of these parties or even their awareness that
their picture or their words are being brought to the
public. Here, a total 11.9% of German streams and 8.7%
of the U.S. streams included potential violations of
personality rights.