Spotify to pay $ 112 million for using music without a license

A couple of years ago, a class action lawsuit against Spotify began. In it, it was alleged that the Swedish streaming platform used music without a license, so they accused her of defrauding artists. Two years later, it appears that the company would have reached an agreement with the judge in the United States. This agreement reflects that they will pay a large amount to settle the lawsuit.

Spotify to pay $ 112 million for using music without a license

The company was accused of not paying adequately for the licenses necessary to be able to reproduce some musical pieces. For this reason, some of these pieces were reproduced without the company having any license.

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So the streaming platform would have been playing music illegally. So they have reached an agreement, which is supposed to pay $ 112 million. Of this amount, some 43.5 million will go to artists and labels affected by these actions of the company. Without a doubt, a significant outlay of money for the firm.

Spotify has stated at all times that they did not give up paying, but comment that it is difficult to find some publishers and the people who manage their licenses. Although they have stated that they were reserving the corresponding funds to pay these copyrights.

At the moment they have not spoken from Spotify about it, although it is expected that more will be revealed later today. But without a doubt it is a setback for the Swedish company, since it is a large amount of money.

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