Twitter has gotten away with not paying music publishers for copyrighted songs for years. A $250 million lawsuit might change that.
in March that the company started negotiations with the music labels in the fall of 2021, but the talks reportedly stalled once Musk took over in November 2022 and began to cut thousands of employees from the company, some of which were responsible for the negotiations.
put some of her tweets behind the site's"subscription tweets" paywall because of how often she was getting copyright complaints against videos she shared. that have allegedly been posted on Twitter, violating copyright law because the labels weren't compensated for their distribution. At a maximum penalty of $150,000 for each violation, that initial list of songs could total over $250 million if the lawsuit is successful.
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