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this is everything awful about the modern internet. i hate that they can just go and retroactively destroy creations like this. imagine if someone lost the rights to a song and they forced you to send the cassette back
I don't use TikTok, do creators buy music fron TikTok to put in videos?
No, they just put it as background music in their videos, but didn't actually pay for it. I would guess it constitutes fair use?
Luckily, copyright law is based on guesses!
No
Fair use is context based. There is no simple yes or no answer.
In this case there is. Background music is not fair use.
And in many cases it's not. But not in all cases. For example, this sketch is a parody of this scene from the O. C.. It uses copyrighted music as background. Parody is fair use.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
this sketch is a parody
this scene from the O. C.
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