{"id":706943,"date":"2026-01-09T22:28:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/music-publishers-sued-by-x-in-growing-licensing-battle\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:28:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:28:37","slug":"music-publishers-sued-by-x-in-growing-licensing-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/music-publishers-sued-by-x-in-growing-licensing-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Publishers Sued By X in Growing Licensing Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tX has filed an antitrust lawsuit against over a dozen music publishers as well as their trade association the National Music Publishers Association, accusing them of colluding with the goal of coercing the platform into purchasing industrywide licenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe lawsuit, filed in Texas federal court on Friday, details an alleged years-long campaign to \u201cleverage monopoly power\u201d and force X into acquiring licenses from all music publishers at inflated rates. The company has been \u201cdenied the ability to acquire a U.S. musical-composition license from any individual music publisher on competitive terms,\u201d states the complaint, which names the NMPA as well as 18 individual publishers including the \u201cbig three\u201d Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony Music Publishing and Warner Ch<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ell Music. Without those deals, X isn\u2019t allowed to host certain songs that users post.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"pmc-polymarket\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" title=\"pmc-polymarket\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.polymarket.com\/market.html?market=will-paul-thomas-anderson-one-battle-after-another-win-best-director-at-the-83rd-golden-globes&amp;features=volume&amp;theme=light&amp;width=Infinity&amp;features=volume&amp;theme=light&amp;height=170pxl\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 170px;margin-top: 15px !important; border: 0px;&#10;&#9;padding: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tX and the publishers have been in a legal battle for years, with the NMPA first suing the platform back in 2023 over allegations of mass copyright infringement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cX\/Twitter is the only major <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> company that does not license the songs on its platform,\u201d says NMPA President &amp; CEO David Israelite. \u201cWe allege that X has engaged in copyright infringement for years, and its meritless lawsuit is a bad faith effort to distract from publishers\u2019 and songwriters\u2019 legitimate right to enforce against X\u2019s illegal use of their songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tX\u2019s new suit comes months after the NMPA had asked a judge in the NMPA\u2019s case for a stay of proceedings as they seemed to be nearing a settlement. The two parties couldn\u2019t reach a resolution, though a November 25 update said they \u201chave made very substantial progress toward settlement and worked on a written settlement agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAccording to X, music publishers have refused to negotiate deals on an individual basis to resolve that case. As part of the alleged scheme, X claims music publishers have weaponized the Digital Millennium  Copyright Act o remove unlicensed content hosted by the company on the social media platform. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn 2021, the National Music Publishers\u2019 Association emailed the company and threatened to launch a \u201cmassive program\u201d to inundate X with takedown notices \u201con a scale larger than any previous effort,\u201d the lawsuit says. That campaign, the trade group warned, would turn \u201cmany of [X\u2019s] most popular users into repeat infringers,\u201d requiring the company to de-platform them, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tX maintains that the DMCA provides the company \u201csafe harbor\u201d over its users\u2019 infringing posts as it \u201chas adopted a policy of (i) removing infringing content upon being notified by the copyright holder and (ii) deplatforming repeat infringers.\u201d In its initial lawsuit, the NMPA had argued that X didn\u2019t routinely act on their takedown notices. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tX says that no major music publishers have agreed to individual licenses, harming users who risk having their accounts suspended by posting songs that the platform hasn\u2019t secured rights to, per the lawsuit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe lawsuit advances several claims for alleged violations of antitrust law and unfair competition, among others. 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