Late last week, TikTok users woke up to the unthinkable — no sound to many of their favorite music artists like Taylor Swift and no way to add that music to their own videos. Universal Music Group ...

The months-long standoff between Universal Music Group and TikTok over royalty payments and AI policies is finally over, at least for the time being, with the announcement that the two entities have ...

#SwiftTok had a rough day. Early Thursday, after Universal Music Group and TikTok failed to reach an agreement on licensing music from UMG artists on the app, sounds from those artists—including ...

TikTok has renewed its direct music-publishing agreement with BMG, which TikTok described as “expanded”. Both companies announced the deal.

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Grace Gardner is an independent musician. They own their own music; write, ...