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Douyin app to tackle binge-viewing with five-second breaks
Douyin has announced plans to break that rhythm deliberately, to keep on the right side of an increasingly stern-on-digital-bingeing government.
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TikTok’s sister app Douyin limits children’s usage in China
Douyin is the Chinese version of TikTok, and like other apps that are popular with young people in China, it’s facing pressure to limit the time they spend on its service.
Cue what Douyin described in a blog post as “the most stringent youth protection measures in the history of the platform” – a ‘youth mode’ for people under the age of 14 that will limit their daily usage to 40 minutes.
Douyin is also going to be upping the educational content for anyone in youth mode: “novel and interesting popular science experiments, exhibitions in museums and galleries, beautiful scenery across the country, explanations of historical knowledge, and so on”.
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China stiffens its copyright laws including music aspects
China’s copyright laws are getting an update, including more careful definitions of copyrighted works, and much bigger punitive damages for infringement.
Music is included: with the industry having lobbied hard for the creation of public performance rights and broadcasting rights in China, both have now been implemented in law.
There are some big implications for short-video platforms like Douyin (TikTok’s Chinese version), as the use of music in video is now clearly defined, and owners of songs have the right to exercise their copyright where those songs are used in user-generated videos.
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Bytedance’s Douyin app now has 400m daily active users in China
A day after app-analytics companies were speculating about TikTok’s revenues, its parent company Bytedance has published some official numbers for Douyin – its Chinese short-videos app. They’re big. Douyin now has 400 […]
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Bytedance tech could put anyone’s face into music videos
Given the current climate of suspicion around Chinese technology companies, stories about those firms that include the word ‘deepfake’ are bound to get attention. Witness this report from TechCrunch: “TikTok parent […]
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Bytedance hires former Tencent Music exec for Douyin role
Bytedance’s latest music hire will be focusing on its Douyin short-video app in China – the Chinese version of TikTok. The company has recruited Deng Linhai to lead Douyin’s music business, […]
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China’s music industry discusses social music-promotion
This weekend saw the ‘WISE’ conference take place in Beijing, with a lineup of Chinese and international speakers from the music and media industries. Music Ally was there to report […]
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China to introduce ‘youth mode’ time limits for short-video apps
The challenge of levering children off their favourite app is one being grappled with by parents across the world, whether it’s YouTube, Fortnite, TikTok or Roblox. Now the Chinese government […]