France ’s Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers ( SACD ) has filed an emergency injunction against TikTok in the Paris Judicial Court over the unauthorized use of its members’ work on the platform.

The Paris-based rights and royalties management body which represents some 58,000 cinema, TV and theatre writers and composers said in a statement on Thursday that the move followed four years of fruitless negotiations with the Chinese owned short video platform.

“For many years, TikTok has been using copyrighted works from SACD’s repertoire without any authorization, never offering acceptable compensation to the authors of these works, and has failed to remove the works as requested by us,” said the body.

Snippets of popular French film and TV franchises, such as Brice de Nice , As

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