It alleges Twitter willfully infringed the work of about 1,700 songs.
It is seeking a jury trial.
Twitter reportedly had been in talks on a similar deal beforeElon Musks $44 billion acquisition last fall.
Dave Bayley onstage with Glass Animals in NashvilleJason Kempin/Getty Images
As proof, the NMPA began sending Twitter formal infringement notices (known as NMPA Notices?)
on a weekly basis beginning in December 2021.
The publishers claims that they have identified 300,000 infringing tweets since then.
