Article 3J790 A $1.6 billion Spotify lawsuit is based on player pianos

A $1.6 billion Spotify lawsuit is based on player pianos

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donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda)
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Spotify is finally gearing up to go public, and the companyis February 28th filing with the SEC offers a detailed look at its finances. More than a decade after Spotifyis launch in 2006, the worldis leading music streaming service is still struggling to turn a profit, reporting a net loss of nearly $1.5 billion last year. Meanwhile, the company has some weird lawsuits hanging over its head, the most eye-popping being the $1.6 billion lawsuit filed by Wixen Publishing, a music publishing company that includes the likes of Tom Petty, The Doors, and Rage Against the Machine.So, what happened here? Did Spotify really fail to pay artists to the tune of a billion dollars all the while losing money? Is digital streaming just a black hole that sucks up money and spits it out into the cold vacuum of space?The answer is complicated.The answer involves something called "player pianos". You can't make this stuff up.
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