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Patrick Hicks has amassed nearly half a million followers on TikTok telling stories about musicians, the industry, and record labels.
Hicks says he's just going to have to avoid covering Universal artists in his stories until the matter is resolved.
Hicks: "TikTok is different from any other social media platform that’s existed in terms of music".
A new technology, copyright owners are scared this is going to ruin everything, professor says.
But TikTok is such a different thing because of how integral music is to it.
MySpace was kind of the only social media platform before this where music was a big focus.
It kind of comes down to big corporations wanting more money, he says.
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