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Setlist: The music industry finally sues Twitter

By Andy Malt and Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 19 June 2023

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Twitter being sued by a consortium of music publishers for hosting “countless” videos that contain unlicensed music, and the alliance of music distributors that has come together with Spotify and Amazon Music to form Music Fights Fraud, a new initiative described as “a global task force aimed at eradicating streaming fraud”.

SECTION TIMES
01: Twitter (00:04:48)
02: Music Fights Fraud (00:07:23)
(Timings may be slightly different due to adverts)

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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• Music publishers accuse Twitter of “massive copyright infringement” in $250 million lawsuit
• Music distributors ally to fight streaming fraud

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