I hate Tik Tok and also hate copyright disputes but can't help but smile when these big corporations have arguments over money and people start taking sides, like Tik Tok or Universal cares about any of their customers.

I'll take, "Things That Won't Affect Me at All" for $400, Alex.

Universal music owns the rights to Remember (walking in the sand) by the Shangri-las.

Oh no.

Oh no.

Oh no no no no no.

this is everything awful about the modern internet. i hate that they can just go and retroactively destroy creations like this. imagine if someone lost the rights to a song and they forced you to send the cassette back

Does it mean that all of existing tiktoks with universal's music will now be silent or is it only going to affect new videos?

Wouldn't all those cringe lip syncs count as fair use under parody?

Good, Tiktok has tiktokified enough brains by now.

Let the brains restore and get used to longer form content.

UM is almost the sole reason why copyright claims on youtube are such a hellscape, so I'll gladly enjoy seeing them fight TikTok on this.

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

Controversial take but...

Yes, tiktok has several serious glaring issues as a platform but being such an absolutely huge platform, it has been (for a while now) much more than teen dance app. It's a platform that under represented and minority groups have found an audience to share their voice. The are legit journalists, artists, celebrities, organizations, dank memers, etc using the platform for good.

Obv it would be great if it wasn't all on tiktok (isn't there a federated equivalent?) but seeing people rejoice wherever something bad happens to the platform just lacks... nuance I guess. I know it's hard to compare social media platforms, but from what I can tell it's one of the less controlling, censor heavy platforms. And it's not owned by Elon Musk lol