The beverage brand said it thought that TikTok’s music tools were OK to use, but a judge didn’t buy it.
In a decision issued Wednesday, Judge William P. Dimitrouleas rejected various defenses from Bang Energy for its conduct, calling them “a boilerplate list” that was “unaccompanied by any effort at developing an argument.”
Combined with Judge Dimitrouleas’ ruling in July against Bang Energy over hundreds of songs owned by UMG, the two decisions potentially put the drink company on the hook for many millions of dollars in damages. Such damages will be decided in future proceedings. Faced with those lawsuits, Bang Energy argued that it didn’t know it wasn’t allowed to use the music in ads. They cited the fact that TikTok and Instagram make it easy to do, and claimed a TikTok rep even told them they could.
But Sony argued back that a misunderstanding was not a real defense, and certainly not for a “sophisticated” company like Bang Energy. “The Platforms’ terms could not have been clearer regarding the prohibition on using copyrighted content without permission,” the label’s lawyers wrote, “and that the use of any music available on the Platforms was limited to personal, non-commercial purposes.”
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