{"id":4225,"date":"2016-01-11T03:18:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T08:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2016-01-11T03:18:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T08:18:58","slug":"spotify-sued-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=4225","title":{"rendered":"Spotify Sued, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/spotify-hit-with-second-songwriter-lawsuit-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Music Business Worldwide<\/a> reports that Spotify is facing a second class action lawsuit over royalties. <\/p>\n<p>The first was filed by Camper Van Beethoven songwriter and frontman David Lowery on December 28th, 2015 for US$150 Million and the second was filed by songwriter and publishing company owner Melissa Ferrick on January 8th, 2016 for US$200 Million. <\/p>\n<p>The music streaming service is also in negotiations with the National Music Publishers Association in the states over their alleged failure to secure mechanical rights.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music Business Worldwide reports that Spotify is facing a second class action lawsuit over royalties. The first was filed by Camper Van Beethoven songwriter and frontman David Lowery on December 28th, 2015 for US$150 Million and the second was filed by songwriter and publishing company owner Melissa Ferrick on January 8th, 2016 for US$200 Million. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7],"tags":[546,829,892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}