> The designated sounds can also be muted so that uploaded video sound can only be heard as well, but plays of the original sound still get the royalties.
I'm not sure I'm parsing this correctly: Is the implication here that TikTok is using popular music in a similar manner to a scrambler [1], allowing them to descramble and extract a "clean" version of whatever was recorded from the user's environment? If so, it's not clear to what purpose, and how that ties in to nefarious royalty games.
No, you make a video with your own audio but when preparing it for publish, you add a popular audio track and set its volume to zero. This means your video will be associated with the track and may show in more feeds or searches and royalties will still be paid even though no one heard the track.
I'm not sure I'm parsing this correctly: Is the implication here that TikTok is using popular music in a similar manner to a scrambler [1], allowing them to descramble and extract a "clean" version of whatever was recorded from the user's environment? If so, it's not clear to what purpose, and how that ties in to nefarious royalty games.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrambler