{"id":5703,"date":"2018-12-21T12:03:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T12:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/spotify-settles-1-6bn-lawsuit-over-songwriters-rights\/"},"modified":"2018-12-21T12:03:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T12:03:59","slug":"spotify-settles-1-6bn-lawsuit-over-songwriters-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/spotify-settles-1-6bn-lawsuit-over-songwriters-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify settles $1.6bn lawsuit over songwriters&#8217; rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Neil Young\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/F28A\/production\/_104909026_neil-young.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Music streaming service Spotify has settled a lawsuit accusing it of infringing the rights of songwriters and publishers.<\/p>\n<p>Wixen Music Publishing had sought $1.6bn (\u00a31.3bn) in damages <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-42548356\" class=\"story-body__link\">for what it argued was the infringement of more than 10,000 songs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The California-based firm represents artists such as Neil Young and the Black Keys.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount. <\/p>\n<p>Although Spotify has struck deals with major record labels, Wixen had accused Spotify of failing to address the claims of songwriters and publishers, who have separate rights to the compositions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wixen Music Publishing and Spotify USA have agreed to a final dismissal of the lawsuit filed by Wixen Music Publishing late last year,&#8221; the two companies said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The conclusion of that litigation is a part of a broader business partnership between the parties, which fairly and reasonably resolves the legal claims asserted by Wixen Music Publishing relating to past licensing of Wixen&#8217;s catalog and establishes a mutually-advantageous relationship for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46646918\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Music streaming service Spotify has settled a lawsuit accusing it of infringing the rights of songwriters and publishers. Wixen Music Publishing had sought $1.6bn (\u00a31.3bn) in damages for what it argued was the infringement of more than 10,000 songs. The California-based firm represents artists such as Neil Young and the Black &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}