_number8_@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months 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-square55fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10
arrow-up17arrow-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 · 8 months agomessage-square55fedilink
minus-square_number8_@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agothis 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
minus-squarethe post of tom joad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoCopyright and ip laws are so fucked in favor of rent-seeking megacorps who hold their hands out expectantly for shit someone else created decades ago.
minus-squaretabular@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoI don’t use TikTok, do creators buy music fron TikTok to put in videos?
minus-squareLightdm@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·8 months agoNo, they just put it as background music in their videos, but didn’t actually pay for it. I would guess it constitutes fair use?
minus-squarePapaStevesy@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·8 months agoLuckily, copyright law is based on guesses!
minus-squarefishos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·8 months agoImagine comparing free social media to a physical copy of media that you purchased. Are you high?
minus-squareDran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·8 months agoIt’s a fair analogy about the erosion of ownership
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
Copyright and ip laws are so fucked in favor of rent-seeking megacorps who hold their hands out expectantly for shit someone else created decades ago.
I don’t use TikTok, do creators buy music fron TikTok to put in videos?
No, they just put it as background music in their videos, but didn’t actually pay for it. I would guess it constitutes fair use?
Luckily, copyright law is based on guesses!
Imagine comparing free social media to a physical copy of media that you purchased.
Are you high?
It’s a fair analogy about the erosion of ownership