Music publishers sue Twitter for $250M for allowing copyrighted songs

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has unleashed its frontal attack on Twitter, the social network controlled by Elon Musk. On Wednesday (July 5), Meta’s Instagram launched Threads, described as a “text-based conversation app.” The app is available in Apple’s App Store for iOS devices and in Google Play for Android.

Naman Ramachandran British recorded music exports experienced significant growth in 2022, surpassing previous records despite intensifying global competition. Figures published by the BPI, the trade association representing the U.K.’s leading music companies and record labels, reveal a 20% increase in the value of U.K. music sales and streams internationally, reaching £709 million ($901.5 million). This surge signifies a jump of over £100 million within a single year. This marks the highest level of annual exports since 2000, when the BPI initiated its annual survey on labels’ overseas income. The milestone occurred during a year when U.K. artists dominated the most-streamed tracks worldwide. Harry Styles’ “As It Was” claimed the title of the most-streamed track globally in 2022, according to data from Luminate. Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” secured the second position on the list. Additionally, Elton John and Dua Lipa’s collaboration “Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)” and Ed Sheeran’s “Shivers” also placed within the year’s Top 10.

McKinley Franklin editor Elon Musk’s controversial Twitter takeover in October 2022 is facing more scrutiny after the Tesla CEO announced another shift to the social media platform this Saturday. Musk implemented a “temporary limit” on the amount of posts users can view per day, defined by varying limits depending on users’ subscription status. Musk had previously come under fire after acquiring Twitter for laying off around 80% of the company’s employees, reinstating once-restricted profiles and tweeting conspiracy theories. Musk’s controversial leadership of the site has left some users in search of another text-based social media platform. 

Lauren Jauregui is sharing her opinion after Elon Musk set viewing limits on Twitter. The former Fifth Harmony member feels that it’s not a “coincidence” that the Tesla founder is implementing these changes as the U.S. prepares for another presidential elections cycle.

 according to DownDetector. As of 1 p.m., there were over 7,000 outage reports regarding the website.Some users flagged issues that included being unable to retrieve tweets, or the error message, «Sorry, you are rate limited. Please wait a few moments then try again.» Rate limits increasing soon to 8000 for verified, 800 for unverified & 400 for new unverified https://t.co/fuRcJLifTnElon Musk, who took over the platform in 2022, tweeted around 1 p.m.

Charna Flam Twitter owner Elon Musk made an abrupt announcement Saturday morning: the social media service has instituted a “temporary limit” on the amount of posts that users can read. Verified accounts that have paid for a Twitter Blue subscription can view 6000 posts per day, while unverified accounts — the vast majority of Twitter users — may only view 600 posts per day. Newly registered unverified accounts get even less at 300 per day, though Musk did not specify how old an account must be to qualify for that tier.To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:– Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day– Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day– New unverified accounts to 300/day Musk explains that the guardrails have been created “to address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation.” The announcement come a day after Twitter’s Friday action to block access to the website for anyone who isn’t signed in as a registered user.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor On Friday, Twitter — without notice — suddenly blocked access to the website for anyone who isn’t signed in as a registered user. Many people were confused about the change, wondering whether it was a glitch or a purposeful move on the part of Twitter, which is under the control of mega-billionaire Elon Musk. Previously, you could search Twitter and view tweets without needing a registered account. But now, visiting any Twitter page displays a log-in prompt instead. Musk, in a post Friday afternoon, claimed that Twitter took the step to improve performance on the platform after third-party companies were “scraping” data and overloading its systems. “Temporary emergency measure,” he tweeted. “We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!”

Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, is being criticized after declaring that the words “cisgender”and its abbreviated form, “cis,” are slurs that will be barred from the social media platform.The term, which refers to individuals whose gender identity matches their assigned sex at birth, has been viewed controversially by many of those to whom it refers. They argue that their identities should not be defined relative to transgender individuals.Musk made the declaration on June 20 in response to a tweet from James Esses, an Irish right-wing media figure, who claimed that transgender activists berated him with the word, which he both ideologically rejects and believes is a slur.Esses’s claim to fame is that he was expelled from a therapist training course after sending a public petition to his school, requesting they change how they view gender dysphoria to “safeguard therapy and counseling” for children.Esses now uses his social media channels to speak out against the idea of gender dysphoria and deny the concept of transgender identity, and advocates for bans on puberty and hormone blockers for children. “Yesterday, after posting a Tweet saying that I reject the word ‘cis’ and don’t wish to be called it, I received a slew of messages from trans activists calling me ‘cissy’ and telling me that I am ‘cis’ ‘whether or not I like it,'” Esses complained in a Twitter post.

Taylor Swift doesn’t want any more bad blood. In multiple fan videos, the 33-year-old chart-topper addressed the crowd at the Minneapolis US Bank Stadium on Saturday night amid her, with a message to her concertgoers.Noting that she’s been moved by the displays of friendship and love she’s witnessed on tour, Swift asked that the «kindness and that gentleness» also extend to the internet. «I’m 33 years old, I don’t care about anything that happened to me when I was 19 except the songs I wrote,» the GRAMMY winner shared.

Taylor Swift's music catalog sale is in the spotlight once again. After Music Business Worldwide published a report claiming that Taylor's dad, Scott Swift, made $15 million on the highly-publicized sale of her music catalog to Scooter Braun, a source tells ET that the elder Swift was unaware of the planned action, despite any profit he made from it. A source close to the negotiations tells ET that the drama began 48 hours before Scooter's purchase of Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Label Group was made public in 2019.

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Twitter following alleged copyright infringement.The suit was filed in Nashville’s Federal Court yesterday (June 14) and claims that the social media platform has infringed on over 1,700 different songs.It also seeks up to $150,000 (£118,630) per infringement — which totals up to $255million (£180million) to be paid if Twitter is found liable.Some of the biggest music publishing companies are included among the plaintiffs listed including Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, Universal Music Publishing, BMG and Kobalt.The publishers listed direct copyright infringement, contributory infringement and vicarious infringement as their counts.David Israelite, the president of NMPA issued a statement regarding the suit, stating: “Twitter stands alone as the largest social media platform that has completely refused to license the millions of songs on its service.”He continued: “Twitter knows full well that music is leaked, launched, and streamed by billions of people every day on its platform. No longer can it hide behind the DMCA and refuse to pay songwriters and music publishers.”Twitter has not yet issued a response regarding the allegations.The inability of the social media giant and music publishers to reach a licensing agreement stems back numerous years and, at time of writing, Twitter is the only major social media company to be working without one.As per the suit, the plaintiffs stated that they hoped new ownership of the company would help them resolve the ongoing issue.

posting updates throughout the show.While at the show at Ford Field, the 64-year-old MC was gifted handmade friendship bracelets from Swifties in the crowd.Exchanging and gifting friendship bracelets has become a fun new tradition for the Swift tour thanks to a lyric in her song “You’re On Your Own Kid”: “So make the friendship bracelets/ Take the moment and taste it.”Flavor Flav received a full wrist of bracelets and was “makin new friends” at the concert, prompting him to ask fans of Swift, 33, to help him make custom bracelets before the next Eras tour show he goes to.“Swifties,,, I wanna hire one of y’all to make me some custom Flavor Flav bracelets to trade for the next Eras Tour stop ya boy hits up,,,, Who can help,??” he tweeted alongside a picture of all his new bracelets.He continued, “Ya boy wants hundreds of bracelets,,, maybe thousands,,, so maybe we hire several of y’all,,, looking for: •ITS•A•CLOCK• + •FLAVOR•FLAV In Navy with Silver.”Swifties,,, I wanna hire one of y’all to make me some custom Flavor Flav bracelets to trade for the next Eras Tour stop ya boy hits up,,,, Who can help,??#TaylorSwift #ItsAClock pic.twitter.com/CsbjiGvOVmSwifties quickly responded with offers to help, showing Flav their talents with pictures of bracelets they’ve already made, and he was extremely impressed.“WOWWWWWW!!! These just keep getting better,!!!” he responded to one fan who posted a video of a Flavor Flav bracelet they made for him.Flav was so impressed with the response, he’s hiring hundreds of fans to help him out.THANKX to all my new friends,,, luv my fellow Swifties #TaylorSwift #ErasTour #FriendsForever pic.twitter.com/BY6ELIkFmQIn my RED (Taylor’s Version) Era and makin new friends at #TaylorSwift @taylorswift13

Julia MacCary editor Eras Tour opener Christian Owens, who goes by the stage name Owenn, says he was in the recording studio “in the womb.” Granted, his mom was a Sony-signed artist and part of the 1990s group Lyric. Given his mother’s background, music was always around him. Owenn spoke with Variety over Zoom in his hotel room having just arrived in Chicago for his second stop on Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. His next day is jam-packed, starting at 7 a.m. and ending with his performance on Soldier Field. The singer describes the first night of performing on the tour as “electrifying” as he looks forward to making his show even better with his remaining stops.

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We may be almost half way through the year (how, please?), but 2023 still has a lot in store on the new music front.

CMA Music Festival will celebrate its 50th year at Nissan Stadium with some of the biggest names in country music.That includes household name headliners like Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Eric Church and Ashley McBryde.Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert, Dan + Shay, Tim McGraw and Little Big Town will be joining in the fun as well.While we’re at it, Jordan Davis, Carly Pearce, Tyler Hubbard, Jimmie Allen and Keith Urban will be there too.Plus, you won’t want to forget Lainey Wilson and Morgan Evans either.We’re still just getting started — all in all, over 100 acts (!) will be taking the stage at this 2023 CMA Music Festival.And for folks that have yet to grab last-minute tickets, you’re not too late to get in on the four-day weekend.At the time of publication, four-day general admission passes start at $265 before fees on Vivid Seats.Hoping for just a taste and only want to attend a single day?Single-day passes can be found for as low as $68 before fees.Still on the fence about going?We’ve got all the details you need to help you make your final decision below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete breakdown of all the best single and multi-day ticket prices can be found right here:(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time.

came to reclaim from his summer home in Maine.Ep. 1 pic.twitter.com/O7CdPjF830Even in the shorter time frame, Carlson was able to touch on a few of his favorite topics of yore, including new testimony about reports of UAP (the artists formerly known as UFOs) from within the military.Carlson announced May 9 that he would be taking his show to Twitter, though no timeline was given, and Elon Musk said only that Carlson would be treated like any other content creator.It has never really been made publicly clear whether Carlson had been released from his TV contract, reported to be about $10 million annually and running through 2025, which would theoretically prevent him from starting a rival show.

Leigh-Anne Pinnock has sent her fans into a frenzy after she dropped a giant teaser about upcoming new solo music. The former Little Mix star, 31, who is yet to launch her solo career following the girl band's hiatus, hinted that it won't be long before her first single is released.The mum-of-two, who got married to her footballer boyfriend Andre Gray at the weekend, posted the tease on her Instagram page.