The legal claim was filed last May in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The action by the MLC sought recovery of what it claimed were unpaid royalties for songwriters and publishers due under the compulsory mechanical blanket licence obtained by Spotify for the US.

Spotify defeated a lawsuit from the Mechanical Licensing Collective accusing it of unfairly cutting royalty rates via its audiobooks-music 'bundle.'

Spotify convinced a New York federal judge on Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit that accused the streaming service of underpaying songwriting royalties for tens of millions of songs.

Spotify has beaten a lawsuit brought by the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) over the streaming service’s decision to reclassify its Premium subscriptions as “bundles”. Continue to article... On Wednesday (January 29),

A judge dismissed the lawsuit on Wednesday, months after Spotify was sued for lowering royalties to songwriters after it introduced an audiobook bundle to its premium tier