— along with other prominent publishers including BMG, Wixen, Hipgnosis and Kobalt among several others.
“Twitter stands alone as the largest social media platform that has completely refused to license the millions of songs on its service,” NMPA president David Israelite said in a statement regarding the suit. “Twitter knows full well that music is leaked, launched, and streamed by billions of people every day on its platform. No longer can it hide behind the DMCA and refuse to pay songwriters and music publishers.
Twitter didn’t immediately respond to request for comment. The publishers listed direct copyright infringement, contributory infringement and vicarious infringement as their counts. Twitter has faced myriad issues and controversies since Elon Musk bought the platform last year, but the company’s contentious relationship with thegoes back years before Musk took the reins. Twitter and the record companies have failed for years to reach a licensing agreement, leaving Twitter as the lone major social media company without a music licensing agreement.
“Twitter’s change in ownership in October 2022 has not led to improvements in how it acts with respect to copyright,” the plaintiffs said in the suit. “On the contrary, Twitter’s internal affairs regarding matters pertinent to this case are in disarray.”
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