Live Streaming and Recording of Events

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At the Great Lakes Bay Region District event we were lucky enough to have our primary sponsor, Dow, bring in their AV team and equipment to manage the entire livestream and video system.

That said, even with the great crew we had, it was a huge problem trying to get the stream to stay up without it getting pulled by YouTubes hyper-sensitive Copyright system (it was literally flagging music coming through the speakers mics, as the music system was isolated from the rest of the audio for the stream input).

I'm curious what other events have done to deal with this and if anyone has gotten any official guidance from FIRST on streaming and dealing with copyright (Multiple calls we made to FIRST HQ on the topic went unreturned)? Using a stream service that doesn't check for copyright is of course an option, but it doesn't solve the legal limbo that FIRST livestreams are currently in.