Twitter has ben hit with a multi-million dollar lawsuit by a coalition of 17 music industry entities. The lawsuit, which was filed filed in Tennessee, and is backed by music publishers like Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Chappell and BMG, seeks more than $250 million in damages for “hundreds of thousands” of alleged infringements of approximately 1,700 pieces of music.
The court documents read: "Twitter knows perfectly well that neither it nor users of the Twitter platform have secured licenses for the rampant use of music being made on its platform as complained of herein.
