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.
_number8_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
fishos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Imagine comparing free social media to a physical copy of media that you purchased.
Are you high?
Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s a fair analogy about the erosion of ownership
Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
It’s only a ‘fair analogy’ if you’re comparing two things you own. You make videos for Tiktok. They own that content, not you.
deathbird@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Maybe folks are gonna start learning that just because they made content for a service, doesn’t mean that they control it.
tabular@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t use TikTok, do creators buy music fron TikTok to put in videos?
Lightdm@feddit.de 8 months ago
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?
PapaStevesy@midwest.social 8 months ago
Luckily, copyright law is based on guesses!
ARNiM@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No
FaceDeer@kbin.social 8 months ago
Fair use is context based. There is no simple yes or no answer.
Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
No, the music overlay music offered in the app is licensed and can be added. Creators who are performing covers, I believe, generally have the license held by TikTok or have their videos muted/taken offline. Special arrangements are made for intentional or encouraged content . That is a guess, but things like Megan Trainor’s “Gucci” where she is both the original artist and a participant would be a case like this. I would think Grace Kelly and sing alongs on arrangement-bound copyright material like Pentatonix doing public domain carols (or even Roger’s and Hammerstein) are negotiated licensing if outside of their pre-negotiated license.