X accuses music publishers of ‘weaponizing’ DMCA takedowns

X is suing euphony publishers and their commercialized group, the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA), accusing them of attempted coercion successful their ongoing conflict implicit licensing, arsenic reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. The Elon Musk-owned level accuses euphony publishers of colluding with the NMPA to "coerce X into taking licenses to philharmonic works from the manufacture arsenic a whole, denying X the payment of contention betwixt euphony publishers."

In the antitrust suit filed connected Friday, X claims that the NMPA and euphony publishers "weaponized" the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) with requests to instrumentality down allegedly infringing conte …

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