YouTube Shorts adds music video remixing as UMG goes silent on TikTok

/ The timing is advantageous for YouTube, which is making it very clear creators can still use songs that are no longer on TikTok.

By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.

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YouTube now lets creators add and remix music videos in their Shorts. In its post announcing the feature, YouTube points out that creators can use music videos from artists like Beyoncé and Maggie Rogers — even as TikTok fights with the record label representing them. The timing suggests it’s a

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