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Music Publishers and X Begin ‘Good Faith’ Negotiations in Copyright Lawsuit


The music publishers that brought a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s social media platform X are in discussions to settle the matter out of court.

The group of music publishers that brought a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s social media platform X two years ago are in discussions to settle the matter out of court, according to new documents filed over the past week. At issue in the case is “pervasive infringing activity” by X of the plaintiffs’ copyrights, as publishers wrote in their initial complaint, which they alleged “is no accident.” “ [now X] stands alone as the largest social media platform that has completely refused to license the millions of songs on its service,” National Music Publishers Association president and CEO David Israelite said in a statement around the time of the suit’s filing.

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