The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) wants Twitter to finally face the music.

The organization which represents American music publishers, is suing the Elon Musk-owned platform seeking $250 million in damages “for hundreds of thousands of infringements and approximately 1,700 artists, including songs recorded by the biggest artists in the world,” said Danielle Aguirre, NMPA EVP and general counsel, who announced the suit at the NMPA annual meeting.

Aguirre said the federal suit, filed in the middle district of Tennessee alongside 17 music publishers, “is just the tip of the iceberg. This case spans the full scope of the music publishing industry, from the majors to independents of all sizes. And we are united in the fight for Twitter to pay songwriters fairly.”

The majority of other large social networks have cut deals with music publishers and labels. The Twitter lawsuit cites TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat among them. Peloton, Roblox and Amazon-owned Twitch are among other platforms who have reached settlements with the. NMPA.

“While we’ve been successful on many fronts to ensure songwriters and music publishers are paid fairly, astoundingly there are still massive global companies who refuse to license the music on their platforms. Such companies will not acknowledge your creative contributions and avoid paying for the songs that are launched and leaked and consumed and shared by billions of people on their service,” she said to attendees at the meeting, which took place during Music Week in New York and was held the day before the annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala.

“Most of you who have been living under a rock know which company I’m referring to,” Aguirre added. “Over the past 18 months NMPA has initiated a take-down focused on addressing the massive amount of unlicensed music on Twitter and we have come to understand the true extent of its infringement. Despite the fact that Twitter’s main competitors are licensed and paying for the songs shared on their platforms and despite the fact that Twitter has relied on music to help grow and expand its platform, calls for the platform to license songs have gone unanswered. Among social media platforms, Twitter stands alone.”

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit include: ABKCO Music, Anthem Entertainment, Big Machine Music, BMG Rights Management, Concord, Hipgnosis Songs Group, Kobalt Music Publishing America, Mayimba Music, Reservoir Media Management, peermusic, Sony Music Publishing, Spirit Music Group, The Royalty Network, Ultra Music Publishing, UMPG, Warner Chappell Music, and Wixen Music Publishing.

Twitter had not responded to requests for comment on the lawsuit at press time.

Aguirre also announced that during the past fiscal year NMPA distributed more than $66 million from legal recoveries and settlements, bringing NMPA’s total all-time legal recovery to almost 1.2 billion.