Taylor Swift and Drake songs disappear from TikTok. Universal Music criticizes TikTok in the licensing dispute for only offering a “fraction” of the usual remuneration.
The app operators, for their part, accuse the music company of greed. Both sides could end up losing. TikTok is the only successful online platform in the West that does not come from the USA. The service belongs to the ByteDance group, which comes from China. However, the company always emphasizes that it does not see itself as a subsidiary of a Chinese company.