The National Music Publishers Association sent a letter to Congress calling for changes to the Copyright Act as its spat with Spotify continues.
An image of a woman holding a cell phone in front of a Spotify logo displayed on a computer screen, on April 29, 2024, in Edmonton, Canada.
The letter is the latest in weeks of increasingly heightened tension between the NMPA and Spotify. At the core of this matter is a bundle Spotify added to its premium subscription earlier this year, which has caused for a lower royalty rate to be paid for songwriters. The publishers and Spotify have been mainly drama-free since the CRB’s 2022 settlement, though that abruptly ended when Spotify changed its premium subscription to bundle music and audiobooks earlier this year. This is because the CRB statutes state that bundled offerings could call for lower royalty rates since music is only part of the subscription package.estimated in April that the bundle could mean Spotify pays writers and publishers $150 million less this year.
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