"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 content. The lawsuit claims that in 2021, the NMPA began "bombarding X with takedown notices every single week related to thousands of posts," to "gain leverage and pressure X" into industrywide licensing deals."
X filed an antitrust lawsuit accusing music publishers and the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) of colluding to coerce X into industrywide licensing deals and denying X competitive options. The complaint alleges that the NMPA "weaponized" the DMCA, sending weekly takedown notices beginning in 2021 and repeatedly targeting thousands of posts to gain leverage. X has experienced recurring copyright and piracy issues, including repeated postings of the entire Super Mario Bros. Movie. The NMPA previously sued X for $250 million in 2023 over alleged mass infringement of more than 1,700 songs; parts of that suit were upheld in 2024. X seeks monetary damages and a court order blocking collective-negotiation pressure by the NMPA and publishers.
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