May 23, 2018
Spotify has won final approval for a $43 million class action settlement over unpaid royalties to songwriters, the kind of liability that streaming services hope to avoid via a major copyright bill that's pending in Congress.
September 13, 2017
Tom Petty, Dan Auerbach and Gillian Welch were among more than 500 musicians and song copyright owners who objected to a $43 million proposed class settlement in a copyright suit against Spotify in New York federal court Tuesday, calling the proposed deal "grossly insufficient."
May 30, 2017
Spotify has agreed to pay $43 million to settle class action copyright litigation claiming the streaming service failed to pay proper royalties to thousands of songwriters.