More than 500 songwriters and publishers are seeking punitive damages for Spotify’s failure to pay mechanical royalties. How did we get here? Interactive ‘streaming mechanicals’ were invented by stakeholders in 2008 to address the concern that streaming would cannibalize record sales which would, in turn, vanquish mechanical royalties. So they imposed a replacement that mollified […]
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