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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Brother Black fly's left hand clue delivery! CTOnews.com, June 15 (Xinhua)-- the National Association of Music Publishers (NMPA), a group of 17 music publishers, filed a lawsuit against Twitter on Wednesday in federal court in Nashville, Tennessee, accusing it of allowing users to publish unauthorized music works on its platform, demanding compensation of more than $250 million (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 1.79 billion yuan).

Members of the National Association of Music Publishers, which include Sony Music Publishing, BMG Rights Management and Universal Music Publishing Group, claim that Twitter infringes the copyright of nearly 1700 music works.

The lawsuit alleges that Twitter uses "countless infringing music works" to attract users to participate. The lawsuit also claims that since Elon Musk bought Twitter in October last year, the company's handling of copyright issues has become more chaotic, while other major social media platforms, such as TikTok, Facebook and YouTube, have reached legal music licensing agreements with publishers.

"Twitter is the only largest social media platform that completely refuses to pay license fees for millions of songs on its service," David Israel, president of the National Association of Music Publishers, said in a statement. " "Twitter encourages users to infringe, thus increasing their advertising revenue and creating an unfair competitive advantage for platforms that pay music licensing fees," he said. "

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