You may notice on TikTok that a sound has been removed from one of your videos, maybe a popular song by a popular artist. Well, this is because the recording business, Universal Music Group has banned the popular music category from the video-sharing app due to failed communication, as well as failing to get a license agreement with the billion-dollar making app. Artists who are getting their songs taken down include Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Drake, and Dua Lipa.
TikTok is known for its entertaining, share-worthy videos. Not only does TikTok have videos to share with friends and family, but the app is also made to create videos to show off to followers. In doing so, you need a sound from TikTok to complete your engaging video. So now, not only can you be unable to use TikTok official snippets, but the sound on your video will be muted even if it’s still posted on your account.
As AI increases in popularity and improves, certain songs will be sung by AI vocals in replace of popular artists. A solo app separate from TikTok called TikTok Music is still in testing for specific international markets. With that being said, last October, Universal Music Group filed a lawsuit against a chatbot company called Anthropic due to Anthropic’s AI using copyrighted music and lyrics from Universal Music Group artists. In the end, the situation that TikTok users questioned has been answered by the information Universal Music Group has given us.
