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Taylor Swift’s music is reportedly back on TikTok just weeks after the social media app and her record label Universal Music publicly exchanged furious messages.<\/p>\n

Universal accused TikTok of bullying<\/strong> ahead of their agreement to license content on the video platform expiring on 31 January – while the social media firm dismissed the “false narrative and rhetoric”.<\/p>\n

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After the deal expired, TikTok removed the music label’s songs from its platform and muted videos featuring those songs, written by anyone signed on to Universal.<\/p>\n

But the Financial Times reports Swift’s return to the Chinese short-video app had been in the works for some time, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

Swift owns the copyright to her songs thanks to a deal struck in 2019 with Universal Music that gives her control of where her music is available, the report adds, unlike many other artists.<\/p>\n

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Sky News has approached TikTok and Universal Music for comment.<\/p>\n

The move would mark a return to TikTok less than three months on from a public spat between the app and Universal.<\/p>\n

In a scathing open letter shared online, titled Why We Must Call Time Out On TikTok, Universal said it had pressed on “three critical issues”.<\/p>\n

These included payment for artists and songwriters, protection from the “harmful effects” of AI and online safety.<\/p>\n

The video-hosting site responded to requests by the company, which is the biggest music label group in the world, “first with indifference, and then with intimidation”, the letter stated.<\/p>\n

It also accused TikTok of attempting to “bully” Universal into accepting a deal “worth less than the previous deal” by removing music of developing artists while keeping the work of “audience-driving” global stars.<\/p>\n

TikTok hit back by claiming Universal put forward a “false narrative and rhetoric” and placed “greed above the interests of their artists and songwriters”.<\/p>\n

The group walked away from the “powerful support of a platform with well over a billion users that serves as a free promotional and discovery vehicle for their talent”, the social media firm added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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