{"id":98667,"date":"2024-02-09T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=98667"},"modified":"2024-02-09T12:44:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:44:24","slug":"national-music-publishers-association-nmpa-backs-universal-music-group-in-the-tiktok-licensing-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/national-music-publishers-association-nmpa-backs-universal-music-group-in-the-tiktok-licensing-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"National Music Publishers\u2019 Association (NMPA) backs Universal Music Group in the TikTok Licensing Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2><span style=\"color:#3366FF\">The end of January saw Universal Music pull its full catalogue including Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and many more from TikTok in row on licence fees.<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Universal Music Group (UMG) stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/can-i-add-my-music-to-tiktok-for-free\/\">TikTok<\/a> was offering to pay a fraction of the rate of the other major social media platforms. UMG said that it\u2019s an \u201cindication of how little TikTok compensates artists and songwriters, despite its massive and growing user base\u201d and that TikTok only accounts for \u201cabout 1% of our total revenue\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/good-news-for-indie-artists-as-umg-pulls-from-tiktok\/\">TikTok wrote<\/a>: \u201cIt is sad and disappointing that Universal Music Group has put their own greed above the interests of their artists and songwriters\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Who is the National Music Publishers\u2019 Association, and why is their backing of Universal Music Group significant?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmpa.org\/\">NMPA<\/a> is a trade association representing all American music publishers and their songwriting partners. Its mission is to protect, promote, and advance the interests of music\u2019s creators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president of the NMPA and CEO David Israelite said \u201cMusic is a driving force behind TikTok\u2019s success, and it is extremely unfortunate that TikTok does not seem to value the music creators that fuel its business\u201d and <strong>\u201c<\/strong>We believe songwriters should be valued and compensated fairly, and artificial intelligence should never be used to dilute the value of human creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The significance of these issues being highlighted and backed by the NMPA creates a spotlight again on the lack of royalties that reach artists, writers and rights holders. As well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/innovation-or-copyright-infringement-the-issue-of-ai-in-music-publishing\/\">issue with AI<\/a> that can lead to creatives not being paid for their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>RouteNote Publishing continues to collect all the royalties we can.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>At RouteNote Publishing, we provide top notch Publishing Administration that collects worldwide Performance and Mechanical royalties from all the leading stores and social medias no matter how much the landscape may shift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The removal of Universal Music Group\u2019s catalogue from TikTok <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/good-news-for-indie-artists-as-umg-pulls-from-tiktok\/\">also leaves a bigger space<\/a> for independent artists and labels to leave their mark on the social media giant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Want To Join Our Service?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><br \/><\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/are-you-eligible-for-routenote-publishing\/\"><strong>See if you\u2019re eligible for RouteNote Publishing here!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of January saw Universal Music pull its full catalogue including Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and many more from TikTok in row on licence fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":98670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,33],"tags":[3858,10264],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - 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