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YouTube has blocked songs by numerous popular artists, including Adele, Kendrick Lamar, Bob Dylan, and Nirvana, over a legal dispute in the US..
On Saturday, many but not all songs by those artists were unplayable on the video streaming platform..
YouTube has blocked songs by several popular artists like Adele and Bob Dylan over a legal dispute with SESAC What is SESAC?.
While SESAC has yet to address its dispute with YouTube, a representative for the music platform said in a statement to Variety, We have held good faith negotiations with SESAC to renew our existing deal..
In response to the outrage, the TeamYouTube account on X, formerly Twitter said, Our music license agreement with SESAC has expired without an agreement on renewal conditions despite our best efforts. for this reason, we have blocked content on YouTube in the US known to be associated with SESAC as in line with copyright law..
