Music Cos. Sue Peloton Over Ariana Grande, Rihanna Songs

Law360 (March 19, 2019, 3:04 PM EDT) -- More than a dozen music publishers hit Peloton with a copyright lawsuit Tuesday, accusing the trendy exercise bike company of willfully using more than 1,000 songs from Ariana Grande, Rihanna and others without paying for them.

The publishers say Peloton — a booming startup that sells high-end exercise bikes that let users participate remotely in spin classes — is a "textbook willful infringer" that made copyrighted songs available to hundreds of thousands of users without paying for so-called synchronization licenses.

"Peloton fully understood what the copyright law required, having entered into sync licenses with certain other copyright holders, while trampling the...

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