X is suing music publishers and their trade group, the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), accusing them of attempted coercion in their ongoing battle over licensing, as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. The Elon Musk-owned platform accuses music publishers of colluding with the NMPA to “coerce X into taking licenses to musical works from the industry as a whole, denying X the benefit of competition between music publishers.”
In the antitrust lawsuit filed on Friday, X claims that the NMPA and music publishers “weaponized” the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) with requests to take down allegedly infringing conte …
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Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/860013/x-nmpa-music-publishers-dmca-antitrust-lawsuit
Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/860013/x-nmpa-music-publishers-dmca-antitrust-lawsuit
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