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Spotify Wins Lawsuit Over Bundling Controversy That Lowered Payments to Songwriters

Spotify won a lawsuit filed against the company last year after Spotify began to pay songwriters less after bundling music with audiobooks.

Spotify has come out victorious in a lawsuit filed against the company last year over a controversial bundling strategy it adopted that led to decreased royalty payments to songwriters. The dispute became one of the more heated battles in the music industry last year, with advocates criticizing the practice for diminishing the value of songwriters, who’ve already been considerably struggling to make money in the streaming era. Earlier this week, David Israelite, the CEO of the trade group the National Music Publishers’ Association, called the new deal “a clear sign that Spotify felt the backlash to its bundling scheme.”

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