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Twitter’s music label legal trouble might have legs


The music labels are suing Twitter / X for $250 million.

By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. In a filing on Tuesday, US District Judge Aleta A. Trauger partially denied X’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, saying it’s still not clear “to what extent X Corp. may be liable for the infringing acts of users on its platform.” Copyright issues on X have been a problem even before Elon Musk’s takeover, as the lawsuit cites that the NMPA began sending infringement notices to Twitter “on a weekly basis” in December 2021.

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