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MLC Asks Court to Reconsider Spotify Bundling Lawsuit Dismissal, Warns of ‘Profound Financial Consequences on an Entire Creative Industry’

February 14, 2025

Photo Credit: The Mechanical Licensing Collective The Mechanical Licensing Collective is officially asking a federal court to reconsider its January dismissal of a much-publicized lawsuit targeting Spotify’s ... Read More...

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Spotify Scores Major Legal Win in MLC Bundling Lawsuit: ‘The Only Plausible Application of the Law Supports Spotify’s Position’

Dylan Smith

January 29, 2025

A federal judge has dismissed the bundling-focused copyright lawsuit that the Mechanical Licensing Collective filed against Spotify. Photo Credit: MLC Looks like Spotify’s aggressive bundling strategy is here... Read More...

The NMPA Wishes You ‘Unbundled Joy’ This Holiday Season as the Spotify Bundling Showdown Rages On

Dylan Smith

December 11, 2024

The NMPA is wishing all (or at least most) 'unbundled joy' this holiday season. (Photo Credit: Digital Music News) Amid a high-stakes showdown over Spotify’s unilateral bundling reclassifications, the Nationa... Read More...

Spotify Reports $100 Million In Royalty Savings Since Rolling Out Bundled Offerings Since March

Ashley King

November 13, 2024

Photo Credit: Daniel Ek by Stuart Isett / Fortune Brainstorm Tech / CC by 2.0 Spotify’s bundling pays off, but not for songwriters and publishers. The bundle move puts the company on course for its first full... Read More...

The MLC v. Spotify Legal Battle Keeps Getting Uglier — Bitter Dispute Unfolds Over ‘Extremely Broad’ and ‘Invasive’ Discovery Demands

Dylan Smith

October 16, 2024

The Spotify v. MLC lawsuit is only intensifying, referring now to an apparent discovery dispute. Photo Credit: Alexander Shatov Just when you thought the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) v. Spotify lawsu... Read More...

MLC Fires Back Against Spotify Dismissal Push in Unpaid-Royalties Lawsuit, Doubles Down on Anti-Bundling Arguments

Dylan Smith

September 19, 2024

Photo Credit: The MLC At August’s end, Spotify moved to dismiss the “nonsensical” unpaid-royalties lawsuit filed against it by the Mechanical Licensing Collective. Now, the MLC is urging the court to reject t... Read More...

Time to Delete the Streaming Mechanical? Here’s a Case for Ditching the Complicated License and Sunsetting the MLC

Jody Dunitz

September 9, 2024

‘Only the songwriters suffer in this messed up, inequitable streaming licensing scheme,’ says Jody Dunitz, a former exec at Sony Music Publishing. Here’s her case for nixing the mechanical, sunsetting the MLC... Read More...

Mechanical Per-Stream Payouts Ranked (US): Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, More

Paul Resnikoff

September 4, 2024

A ranking of per-stream mechanical licensing royalty payments by DSP platform, including the 'big four' streamers Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music. Data from SoundCloud and Tidal are coming next.

Spotify Officially Moves to Dismiss the MLC’s ‘Nonsensical and Factually Unsupportable’ Unpaid-Royalties Suit

Dylan Smith

August 28, 2024

Photo Credit: MLC The MLC's legal arguments against Spotify’s bundling embrace are “nonsensical and factually unsupportable” – at least according to the streaming platform itself, which has filed to dismiss t... Read More...

The MLC and Spotify Won’t Be Settling Anytime Soon — Dismissal Arguments Ramp Up in High-Stakes Legal Battle

Dylan Smith

July 29, 2024

The MLC is pushing back against Spotify's dismissal arguments in their high-stakes legal battle. Photo Credit: Bastian Riccardi In turns out Spotify and the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) won’t be sett... Read More...

It Pays to Bundle: Spotify Reveals Its Mechanical Savings Amid Intensifying MLC Legal Battle

Dylan Smith

July 25, 2024

Spotify has officially disclosed the bundling savings stemming from its much-publicized bundling reclassifications in the U.S. Photo Credit: Mackenzie Marco It pays to bundle – and that’s according to Spotify... Read More...

DMN Pro Weekly Report: Last Month, 97% of Spotify Accounts Were Classified as Bundles. Now, That Figure Is 98%.

Paul Resnikoff

July 24, 2024

Mechanical licensing royalty payments from major streaming music platforms, US, April 2024 (Source: DMN Pro data) In March, Spotify officially flipped the switch on its controversial bundling strategy. One re... Read More...

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