Elon Musk's X Corp. has filed with the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee a motion to dismiss the copyright infringement lawsuit initially filed in 2023 by a group of music publishers, including Concord Music, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music. In the lawsuit, the publishers argued that X Corp., formerly Twitter, had infringed on over 1700 copyrights they owned and were seeking statutory damages of up to $250 million. X Corp. ch...

Privately-owned US music rights society Global Music Rights (GMR) has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in the US District Court for the Central District of California against online radio operator Music Choice for “repeatedly and willfully" infringing upon GMR repertoire. GMR alleges that Music Choice has "publicly performed no fewer than 95 GMR compositions without authorisation." GMR contends that even after receiving formal notice to stop playing GMR works, Music Choice "kept performin...

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) has filed infringement lawsuits against four separate radio groups operating a total of 15 stations following what the US rights organisation described as their "continued failure to comply with US copyright law by broadcasting ASCAP songwriter and publisher works without a valid license."

The radio groups are: Haugo Broadcasting Inc. (South Dakota), Spoon River Media (Indiana), Taylor Communications (Mississippi) and Barry Lu...