_number8_@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agoUniversal 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.comexternal-linkmessage-square71linkfedilinkarrow-up1316arrow-down118
arrow-up1298arrow-down1external-linkUniversal 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_number8_@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square71linkfedilink
minus-squareRampantParanoia2365@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down2·3 years agoI don’t understand. Isn’t TikTok a video making platform? What catalogue…?
minus-squareCluckN@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·3 years agoTikTok 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.
minus-squareCorkyskog@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 years agoThere are estimates of this impacting between a few hundred million to a billion videos…
minus-squareHootinNHollerin@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 years agoHa Ha!
I don’t understand. Isn’t TikTok a video making platform? What catalogue…?
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.
There are estimates of this impacting between a few hundred million to a billion videos…
Ha Ha!