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Kendrick at the Super Bowl, Spotify Royalties Lawsuit, Diddy Case and More Top Music Law News


Kendrick plays the Super Bowl amid Drake's lawsuit, Spotify beats a royalties case, Diddy faces new claims, and more in this music law news recap.

This is The Legal Beat, a weekly newsletter about music law from Billboard Pro, offering you a one-stop cheat sheet of big new cases, important rulings and all the fun stuff in between. That pending legal action makes it fair to wonder: When Lamar steps onto the world’s biggest stage on Sunday night, will he face pressure to avoid the whole mess by just skipping “Not Like Us” entirely? The lawsuit, filed last year, accused Spotify of bookmaking trickery – namely, claiming that the addition of audiobooks to the platform entitled the company to pay a lower “bundled” rate for music.

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