The music industry finally sues Twitter

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) STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK • Music publishers accuse Twitter of “massive copyright infringement” in $250 million lawsuit • Music distributors ally to fight streaming fraud ALSO MENTIONED • Ed Sheeran gets a giant bear tingly for his hot sauce MORE FROM CMU • Upcoming CMU webinars • Buy MMF and CMU Insights’ Dissecting The Digital Dollar book on Amazon • Sign up to receive the CMU Daily news bulletin • Listen to the full Setlist theme tune