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Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish May Disappear From TikTok Amidst Licensing Dispute
Taylor Swift performs onstage during Z100's Jingle Ball 2012 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, on Dec. 7, 2012. Photo by Kevin Kane/Getty Images for Jingle Ball 2012
Carly Mayberry
By Carly Mayberry
1/31/2024Updated: 2/1/2024
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The music of such major artists as Taylor Swift, Drake, and Billie Eilish could vanish from the video hosting service TikTok unless the social media platform can come to a last-minute deal with Universal Music Group.
UMG said it will no longer allow its music on TikTok, which is owned by the China-based company ByteDance, because a licensing deal between the two parties has expired. A new deal has yet to be reached.
Carly Mayberry
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As a seasoned journalist and writer, Carly has covered the entertainment and digital media worlds as well as local and national political news and travel and human-interest stories. She has written for Forbes and The Hollywood Reporter. Most recently, she served as a staff writer for Newsweek covering cancel culture stories along with religion and education.
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