Spotify has settled in a legal case with an independent Florida-based music company called Sosa Entertainment and its founder.
Today’s news marks the latest development in a case which first began in 2019, when SPOT was sued by the independent music company seeking “over $1bn in damages” from the streaming platform for an alleged series of offences.
Florida-based Sosa Entertainment LLC and its sister company – royalty collection firm Pro Music Rights LLC (PMR) are both owned by Jake P. Noch.
At the time of the lawsuit’s filing (back in 2019), Sosa alleged that it had not received full royalties associated with over 550 million streams on Spotify. In addition, the company claimed that SPOT removed the tracks linked to said streams.
Sosa said that this removal process began “in or about” May 2017 and alleged that all the tracks were cut from the service “without advance notice [and] without ever telling [Sosa and PMR] why their songs were removed”.
Read more at https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-settles-with-pro-music-rights-founder-who-sought-over-1bn-in-damages/
