{"id":99145,"date":"2024-03-15T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=99145"},"modified":"2024-03-15T13:51:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T13:51:11","slug":"the-national-music-publishers-association-to-leave-tiktok-in-april-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/the-national-music-publishers-association-to-leave-tiktok-in-april-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Music Publishers\u2019 Association To Leave TikTok in April 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@laurachouette\">Laura Chouette<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 style=\"user-select: auto;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; user-select: auto;\">The National Music Publishers\u2019 Association (NMPA) has decided to not renew their licence with TikTok, with their agreement expiring on April 30th.<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the NMPA\u2019s decision to not renew their licence with <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/can-i-add-my-music-to-tiktok-for-free\/\">TikTok<\/a>, a plethora of indie publishers are likely to remove their artists&#8217; content from the social media site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is set to take place only a few months after <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/national-music-publishers-association-nmpa-backs-universal-music-group-in-the-tiktok-licensing-dispute\/\">Universal Music Group decided to pull their catalogue from the platform.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if independent artists are signed to a publisher, the NMPA will no longer be an active member of the platform meaning<strong> DIY musicians will receive less protection in garnering the royalties that are owed to them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without this licence in place, independent publishers will have to negotiate their own kind of deal with TikTok directly once the NMPA\u2019s licence expires on April 30th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>What has the NMPA stated?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The full statement from the NMPA expanded on their reasoning for not renewing their licence, saying; \u2018<em>It is important that all NMPA members understand that without a licence in place, TikTok should not be using your musical works on its platform.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the letter the NMPA sent to their members, the NMPA concluded their statement by imploring users to<em> \u2018take this opportunity to fully evaluate what is being offered and make a decision for what is best for their business, not TikTok\u2019s\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Collect your TikTok royalties with RouteNote Publishing!<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Here at RouteNote Publishing, we can collect <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/what-are-performance-royalties-and-how-are-they-generated\/\">performance<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/mechanical-royalties\/\">mechanical<\/a> royalties which are the primary publishing royalties generated from TikTok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the plus side, the removal of UMG\u2019s content from the service and now numerous indie publishers catalogues could see a wider space for independent music to begin to take over the social media giant &#8211; read more about this <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/good-news-for-indie-artists-as-umg-pulls-from-tiktok\/\">here<\/a>!<\/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\"><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 National Music Publishers\u2019 Association (NMPA) has decided to not renew their licence with TikTok, with their agreement expiring on April 30th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":99147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,33],"tags":[10264],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - 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