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X alleges collusion by 18 major publishers and NMPA to force inflated industrywide licenses, blocking individual deals and using DMCA takedowns as leverage, seeking damages and court order.
- On Jan. 9, X filed an antitrust lawsuit in Texas accusing the National Music Publishers' Association and 18 publishers including Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music of colluding to force industrywide licenses.
- After years of litigation, the dispute escalated when the 2023 NMPA lawsuit was filed, and settlement talks failed despite a November 25 update claiming significant progress.
- More than 200,000 takedown requests were sent in the first year, according to the complaint, after David Israelite warned X of a scaled program to inundate the platform with notices.
- X asked the court to compel individual licensing and award damages, saying it seeks a ruling forcing publishers to negotiate U.S. musical-composition licenses individually and to block NMPA coercion.
- Against that backdrop, David Israelite said that X alone refuses to license music and has engaged in copyright infringement for years, while TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat license music libraries.
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Musk's X sues music publishers over alleged licensing conspiracy
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