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The article mentions that TikTok owes a lot of its early traction to its predecessor, musical.ly. but there's no mention of how/whether musical.ly got license f
by creeble 6y ago
The article mentions that TikTok owes a lot of its early traction to its predecessor, musical.ly. but there's no mention of how/whether musical.ly got license for their lip sync music.
Was the success of musical.ly (and by some large extension, TikTok) based on the difficult-to-stop (because China) pirating of music?
I now unleash the piracy-is-not-theft dogs...
- bigpumpkin 6y agoThey used licensed music
- creeble 6y agoMusical.ly did? How did they negotiate that license, I wonder? Let me put it another way then: Is the success of musical.ly and its successor TikTok really about somehow getting licensed music on a platform out the gate? And the sorting hat is just a good refinement that wouldn't have a chance to exist without the licensing?