Sweeping New Music Law Expedites A $1.6 Billion Lawsuit Against Spotify
Just before New Year's Eve a music publishing company filed a suit seeking $1.6 billion in damages from the company. A new bill was the reason the plaintiffs went ahead.
When it comes to reporting on Spotify and the company's strained relationship with songwriters and publishers, it's beginning to sound like a broken ... system. But a possible fix is in.
Just two days before New Year's Eve, the music publishing company Wixen, which manages the compositions of a wide cross section of artists from Neil Young to Rage Against The Machine, filed a lawsuit against Spotify over its failure to properly license those works before making them available to stream.
The new lawsuit is not the first (or the second or the third) brought against the world's most popular streaming over a largely identical suit against it that it hoped would sunset further court battles.
