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Universal Music says that it will pull its song catalog from TikTok tomorrow at midnight, as the companies are unable to reach a deal on rights. Huge implications. (twitter.com)
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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand. Isn't TikTok a video making platform? What catalogue...?

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

TikTok was originally an app called Musically where people would lip-sync over songs. Music was/is the core of the app so copyrighting songs would cut down the majority of their content.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There are estimates of this impacting between a few hundred million to a billion videos...