Following accusations of plagiarism and copycat naming schemes, Streamlabs has announced that it's removing "OBS" from the name of its popular livestreaming app.

Streamlabs is best known for their free streaming software Streamlabs OBS. The software allows live streamers to set up and customize their streams, as well as display visual alerts for notifications.

Streamlabs has been called out by OBS and Twitch streamers over accusations that Streamlabs Studio copies other products.

"Streamlabs OBS is built on top of the OBS open-source platform; Streamlabs OBS is also open source, and our code is publicly available.

UPDATE 18/11/21: Streamlabs will now remove OBS from its name, to avoid confusion with the separate platform OBS - as per tweets from yesterday shared below. "We are taking immediate action to ...