Twitter Faces $255 Million Lawsuit from Seventeen Music Publishers for Copyright Infringement

2023-06-16 03:01:00

Seventeen music publishers Americans, including Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappel Music, sued Twitter claiming that the platform should indemnify them for 255 million dollars for infringing copyrights of its artists.

The National Music Publisher’s Association (NMPA)which includes the most prominent publishing labels in the United States and is in charge of protecting, promoting and fostering the interests of music creators in the United States, prompted this complaint considering that the platform “feeds his business countless infringing copies of musical compositions.”

In the lawsuit once morest the current owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, is pointed once morest the platform by “use indiscriminately” the songs of the artists who have registered around 1,700 works in the seventeen publishers that make up the NMPA.

In the lawsuit, the publishers insist that the platform “is riddled with violations copyright” and that both before and following its acquisition by Musk, the social network “became benefit of copyright infringement, at the expense of music creators, whom Twitter pay nothing.”

As a result of this illegal activity, the signatories state that “they have suffered and will continue to suffer substantial and irreparable damage”so they are entitled to compensation for damages valued at an amount of up to $150,000 for each infringing work. In short, they demand compensation from Twitter of regarding 255 million dollars for not having respected the copyrights of artists and composers included in the catalogs of these publishing labels.

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