US music publishers hit Twitter with copyright suit

Major music publishers on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit accusing Twitter of failing to stop “rampant” copyright infringement on the platform.

The National Music Publishers’ Association and its members argued in the suit that the social media company should pay as much as $150,000 per work infringed, with the potential tab climbing into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

“Twitter stands alone as the largest social media platform that has completely refused to license the millions of songs on its service,” NMPA chief executive David Israelite said in reply to an AFP inquiry.

Twitter leak: Lessons for African firms

By Winifred Okocha
Editor at LinkedIn News

Parts of Twitter's source code – a closely held trade secret – were leaked online, according to court filings. The social network moved Friday to have the code taken down by GitHub – the online forum where it was posted – and while GitHub took the code down that day, reports suggest it may have been public for months.