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   Jeremiah Lee (jeremiah@alpaca.gold)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 05:30:45 JST Jeremiah Lee

   • Evan Prodromou

   @evan Extremely qualified yes: if it can figure out how to do decentralized music licensing. TikTok is dead without music.

   https://alpaca.gold/@Jeremiah/113645997440506959

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 05:30:44 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @Jeremiah so, one possibility would be decoupling the music from the videos. For example, you could embed a MusicBrainz ID for the background music, and on the client end the client app could invoke the user's preferred streaming music app (Spotify, Apple Music, Prime Music, etc.) to play it. If not available, just no audio.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 05:57:38 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @Jeremiah whoa! Til!

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     Jeremiah Lee (jeremiah@alpaca.gold)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 05:57:39 JST Jeremiah Lee

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan That would be a good solution and a potential future implementation, but unfortunately not compatible with the present state of copyright law and music licensing.

     The Big 3 Labels consider any programmatic playback control based on a timed event from other media as a use case that requires a sync license. Streaming services must inhibit the ability for a user to do this in order to comply with their licensing agreements with The Big 3 Labels and not risk losing catalog access.