The National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) is seeking at least $200 million in damages from Roblox for not licensing songs uploaded by users to Roblox, Variety reported.

David Israelite, president and CEO of the NMPA, announced the lawsuit at the organization's annual meeting. He stated, "Roblox has profited hundreds of millions of dollars by demanding payment every time a user uploads music to its platform. The lawsuit was filed by publishers representing artists such as Ariana Grande, Deadmau5, Imagine Dragons, and Ed Sheeran; Roblox has yet to comment.

Roblox is currently one of the most popular gaming platforms in the world ("gaming" is currently taboo for Roblox), with over 21.3 million daily users under the age of 13, according to statistics aggregator Statista. Uploading music to Roblox is indeed a simple process: if you want to use a sound file for a game or experience on Roblox, simply import the file to your computer, upload it, and wait for the website to quote you a price for your upload in Robux (Roblox's own currency). Simply wait for the website to quote you a price for the upload. The longer and larger the file, the higher the cost of the upload; since Robux is a real money currency, the NMPA's claim that Roblox makes real money from such uploads appears to be true, but it is not at present, no warning about licensed music on the upload site itself.

Israelite also took Twitch to task for its consistently perceived lax music licensing practices; Twitch had refuted this claim last October, but since then, several music publishers have engaged in DMCA takedowns, Israelite stated that "the NMPA is stepping up its copyright takedown campaign against Twitch and will continue to remove songs that the trade group claims Amazon is refusing to pay for."