The three major music conglomerates — Universal, Sony and Warner — joined by a host of other publishers, on Wednesday sued Twitter for at least $250 million over the alleged infringement of roughly 1,700 works for which it received hundreds of thousands of takedown notices.
They allege the company “consistently and knowingly hosts and streams infringing copies of music compositions” to “fuel its business.”
Twitter has rebuffed calls for it to obtain the proper licenses, according to the suit.