Major battle between TikTok, Universal Music Group brewing

The music giant is pulling its artists' music from TikTok amid failed license contract negotiations. The Panel discusses what this means for TikTok users.
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[@Dead_Posey]

This directly hurt us… we’re an independent artist under the UMG distribution umbrella. All our songs on TikTok were muted.

[@MusicSoundPlayer]

Fk UMG. Losers

[@gmail2liamg]

so sorry for u 🥺

[@clouds2593]

Leave UMG.

[@justanidiotlestkarrfan]

I am pretty sure artist will sue both tiktok and umg for it

[@georgiamarierx9682]

Well less customers for Universal

[@louaguado995]

I understand wanting to promote an artist you like, but once you start making money off of music you didn't write then that seems like stealing. I never understood how tribute bands were able to make money off of other people's music, unless they're paying royalties?

[@dannybx78]

TikTok and UMG both need to get sued.
I will no longer use TikTok like i used to because of this particular situation.

[@LadieKadie]

Get us completely out of China!

[@carolcarranza3496]

I'm glad that Universal went after TikTok, but don't count on a good outcome. Social media companies always try to skim around copyright laws to publish/post music without paying the original artists and musicians. Record companies need to be aware of these incredibly sneaky ways and stop/prevent this stupid practice from happening

[@justanidiotlestkarrfan]

Actually they made a contract before so its not sneakyway plus tiktok is good advertisement for artist most of the community is here