According to the reports, Universal Music, a member of NMPA, was in licence negotiations with TikTok but failed to reach an agreement. In April 2020, it was widely reported that the National Music Publishers Association (“ NMPA”), a US-based body representing thousands of music publishing companies threatened to sue TikTok for copyright infringement. One would think any video created using the music on TikTok must be authorised because surely TikTok would have secured some licensing arrangement with the relevant rightsholders, right? Well, it seems one would be wrong. Unlike other platforms where users upload songs already contained in their devices to edit into their video, TikTok itself provides music from its library for users to download and use. What may come as a surprise to users, however, is that several of their TikTok videos might potentially infringe the copyright of those songs used. It is no surprise then that the top trending TikToks are often those of people lip-syncing and dancing to trending pop songs. Most crucially, since merging with karaoke app musical.ly, TikTok offers an enormous library of sounds from which users can easily select to score their videos – from clips of the latest pop hit to dialogue from TV shows to audio from other TikTok videos.
However, TikTok’s popularity has soared exponentially in the last couple of years, largely attributable to how versatile and user-friendly it is. On the surface, TikTok looks no different from any other social media app of its ilk (your Vines, Instagrams, Snapchats and what have you). From the reposting of someone else’s Instagram Story to livestreaming via Facebook Live, this article will examine the implications under Malaysia’s existing copyright laws.įor those unfamiliar, TikTok is a mobile app for creating and sharing short-form video content. While user-generated content has always been the bedrock of social media since its inception, the advent of new methods of content creation and sharing in recent years poses a new set of quandaries on whether such acts amount to copyright infringement. The “My Mom Met My Dad” meme, which first originated on TikTok, has become immensely popular with compilation videos being widely shared on other social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook. If you have spent any time on social media in the past two months and have a member of Gen Z within your close proximity (or you yourself are a Gen Zer), chances are you have heard this line. Hi, I'm Ryan and my life … is kinda crazy."
" It all started when my mom met my dad and they fell in love and they had me.
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