Commercial Music Library – User Terms

Sharing & Disclosure · Permission or license

Business Users grant TikTok the right to report their usage data to rights holders

For Commercial Uses by Business Users, each Business User grants TikTok and its affiliates the right to provide data reporting to the rights holders of the Commercial Sounds the Business User used, in each instance of use. Any data TikTok shares under this paragraph is at all times subject to all applicable privacy and data sharing laws and regulations.

Supporting quotations

With respect to Commercial Uses by Business Users, each such Business User hereby grants to TikTok and its affiliates the right to provide data reporting to the rights holders of the Commercial Sounds used by the Business User in each instance.

Any data shared by TikTok pursuant to this paragraph will at all times be subject to all applicable privacy and data sharing laws and regulations.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to Commercial Uses by Business Users, not to individual users.
• Reports go to the rights holders of the Commercial Sounds the Business User used.
• Sharing remains subject to applicable privacy and data sharing laws and regulations.

Not stated here

• The text does not name the rights holders, say how often reports are made, or say whether the data is aggregated or identifies individual people.
• The privacy and data sharing laws are not named.

Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice

Reported data may include account, campaign and targeted-audience details

The data TikTok may report to rights holders may include the number of views, creations, likes and followers, the Business User's platform account name, the country of its home offices and the industry in which it operates, the campaign names, and the Business User's targeted audience data. Targeted audience data may include gender, personal interests and geo-location. Neither list is exhaustive: the data is introduced with "may include" and the audience data with "may include, but may not be limited to".

Supporting quotations

This data may include the number of views, creations, likes, followers, Business User platform account name, country of the Business User’s home offices and industry in which the Business User operates, the campaign name(s) and Business User’s targeted audience data, which may include, but may not be limited to, gender, personal interests and geo-location.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to data reported about Business Users' Commercial Uses.
• The items are examples; the audience-data list is expressly not limited to those items.

Not stated here

• The text does not say whether audience data is reported as individual-level or aggregate information.