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Spotify’s Estimated $150M Songwriter Royalty Cuts: Music Industry Reactions (Updating)
Spotify's songwriter royalty cuts: Music industry reactions to the estimated $150 million decrease from the NMPA, NSAI, AIMP and more.
Spotify is changing the way it pays songwriters and publishers in the United States — leading to an estimated $150 million cut to U.S. mechanical royalty payments — and the music business is speaking out. Spotify’s attempt to radically reduce songwriter payments by reclassifying their music service as an audiobook bundle is a cynical, and potentially unlawful, move that ends our period of relative peace. “‘Bundling’ music with other offerings without a music-only option does not comport with our view of the intent of the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) in recent Phonorecord procedures in which the NSAI participated.
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