Spotify is being sued by a major music publisher for $1.6 billion. - www.justnaira.com
Reports show that Wixen Music Publishing, which licenses music from about 200 artists, including Tom Petty, Neil Young, The Beach Boys, Missy Elliott, and Janis Joplin, is suing Spotify for $1.6 billion. The lawsuit was filed in California last Friday, and alleges that Spotify has been using “thousands of songs” with inappropriate license. Wixen basically argues that Spotify doesn’t do its best to identify the right holders of songs it licenses from labels, as the complaint reads, in part: “Prior to launching in the United States, Spotify attempted to license sound recordings by working with record labels but, in a
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