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Twitter Music Lawsuit: Judge Allows Publishers’ Copyright Case Against X To Move Forward
In the Twitter music lawsuit, the copyright case can continue, a judge says. Music publishers sued X Corp. over claims of copyright infringement.
A federal judge is allowing music publishers to move forward with a copyrightlawsuit filed against X Corp. over allegations of widespread copyright infringement on the social media platform formerly known as . TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat have all allegedly entered into such deals with publishers, providing a library of licensed music for users to legally add to their posts. Notably, Tuesday’s ruling did not address the thorny issue of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a federal law that provides sites like Twitter with immunity — a “safe harbor” — from litigation over material uploaded by their users, so long as they promptly remove it when asked.
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