New Delhi: Seventeen music publishers in the United States have filed a lawsuit against Twitter for more than $250 million alleging widespread copyright infringement involving around 1,700 songs as per a report in the BBC. The National Music Publishers’ Association (NPMA) cited the statements of new Twitter owner Elon Musk and stated that the company has purposefully stopped enforcing the rules, it added.
The NMPA consists of companies including Sony Music Publishing, BMG Rights Management and Universal Music Publishing Group.
It added that the microblogging website has not improved under the billionaire and it “permits and encourages infringement” for profit and claimed that the social networking platform keeps “reaping huge profits from the availability of unlicensed music without paying the necessary licensing fees for it.” It went on to say that the infringements gave Twitter an “unfair advantage” over competitors such as TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat who pay for music licenses.
Further, Musk is quoted as saying that copyright “goes absurdly far beyond protecting the original creator” and that “overzealous” implementation of copyright laws “is a plague on humanity” in the lawsuit.
The arguments against Twitter
Twitter has so far not issued a statement on the matter.
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