Teletubby 134,103 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 (edited) TikTok says it has started removing more music from its platform as part of a continuing row over royalties with Universal Music Group (UMG). The app has already silenced songs by artists signed to the label, but is now having to do the same with writers too. Today’s popular songs have multiple co-writers, each of whom might have a different music publisher. When a track includes a sample or interpolation of another composition, those works’ songwriters get credits on the new work, too. TikTok says up to 30% of what it calls "popular songs" could be lost. But some industry estimates say up to 80% of all music on TikTok could be muted. That's because of something called "split copyrights". In other words, if a songwriter signed to Universal Music's publishing arm has contributed even a tiny part to a song, that entire recording will, in theory, have to come down. That would include songs by artists on other labels, including the two remaining majors, Sony and Warner, and hundreds of independents. The impact of the move on artists and songwriters has been very real, despite UMG’s claim about revenue, as artists have lost the most-powerful platform for promoting their music, along with any royalties that would have been generated on the platform. “That really hurts,” says songwriter-artist Bonnie McKee, who has written hits for Katy Perry and Britney Spears and has a solo album coming in May. “TikTok is how artists get the word out about a new song — and now they’re muting someone’s entire catalog? The labels say TikTok is so important and push their artists to [be active on the platform], and now they can’t?” Sources close to the situation tell Variety they see no quick resolution to the standoff. https://variety.com/2024/music/musicians/tiktok-removing-universal-music-publishing-songs-1235923848/ https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68412642 Dua Lipa, Ava Max and more have their songs unavailable on TikTok, even though they are not UMG artists. Edited March 3 by Teletubby ⸜(• ◡•)⸝♡🐀💨🚽 4 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vengaboy 1,183 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 I don't know if it's just one of those days for me but I couldn't give a flying fish finger if TikTok was shut down tomorrow. Byeeee! 8 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
holy scheisse 21,603 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 has the removal of copyrighted music affected tiktok's user engagement so far? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
starcell 355 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 I despise TikTok so cool! lol. Especially if they intended to do some ****ery with AI, I fully support artists protecting their work as much as they’re able to (speaking as a working artist) 5 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister G 10,022 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Ewww TikTok is literally about to make themselves irrelevant at this rate. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
River 104,773 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 burn this app alive I could play the moderator, I can ban you, die sis. 1 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronco 5,703 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 1 hour ago, holy scheisse said: has the removal of copyrighted music affected tiktok's user engagement so far? Idk how it's affected engagement, but the content switch has definitely starting impacting my algorithim at least. So many people are trying to cut through with live audios but because they're not using a singular centralised source for a track it's definitely confusing the algorithim. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Controversiaga 9,242 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 So sick of this app. Let it drown Pronounced like “Balenciaga” . Emphasis on the “Ga” 1 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dit 45,443 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Just in time for LG7! Yay to no viral dances and viral moments with the song playing to promote it organically I guess : ) Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenWonder 3,694 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 On to the next! Spoiler This post brought to you by the creators MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinnitus15 50,490 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Beyoncé’s music is removed too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
weed 70,896 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Love it. Time to pay up, piggies Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeveevil 50 Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 On 2/27/2024 at 7:52 PM, holy scheisse said: has the removal of copyrighted music affected tiktok's user engagement so far? I heard somewhere that, IIRC, while they were affected, it's not statistically significant Always a couple seconds away from having a mental breakdown Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeveevil 50 Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 On 2/27/2024 at 7:40 PM, Teletubby said: Dua Lipa, Ava Max and more have their songs unavailable on TikTok, even though they are not UMG artists. does anyone know how/why? is umg their distributor or something??? Always a couple seconds away from having a mental breakdown Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teletubby 134,103 Posted March 3 Author Share Posted March 3 39 minutes ago, eeveevil said: does anyone know how/why? is umg their distributor or something??? their songs have co-writers who are signed with Universal Music Publishing. Beyonce also had her tiktok hit "Texas hold 'em" removed recently because one of the writers is signed to UMP. ⸜(• ◡•)⸝♡🐀💨🚽 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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