Music Business Worldwide

Spotify vs. Songwriters (again)... and a 'likely' legal fight

Music Business Worldwide

Show Notes

On this Music Business Worldwide podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by David Israelite, the President and CEO of the National Music Publishers' Association. We probably don't need to ask you to guess which particular controversial topic Israelite and Ingham discuss. Earlier this month, Spotify announced that it was changing the way it calculates mechanical royalty payments for songwriters and publishers in the US. Spotify has re-categorized its Premium subscription tiers in the Stat...

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