TikTok has started deleting music released by the record company Universal from its video clips. The dispute is about the remuneration for licensed music and the handling of AI-generated songs.
Universal Music argued in an open letter that TikTok only offered musicians and song authors a “fraction” of the rem money usual on similar online platforms. The music company is thus staying away from a platform with “significantly more than a billion users” on which music is advertised and discovered.