{"id":202011,"date":"2024-05-20T19:51:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T18:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=202011"},"modified":"2024-05-21T18:40:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T17:40:15","slug":"could-spotify-lose-the-crucial-bundling-lawsuit-filed-by-the-mlc-it-all-comes-down-to-these-legal-arguments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/could-spotify-lose-the-crucial-bundling-lawsuit-filed-by-the-mlc-it-all-comes-down-to-these-legal-arguments\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Spotify lose the crucial &#8216;bundling&#8217; lawsuit filed by the MLC? It all comes down to these legal arguments&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWhat's happened?\r\nLast month, music publishers in the US began rais<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><h3>Sorry, you have hit your monthly limit of MBW+ articles!<\/h3>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">log in<\/a> to gain unlimited access to all analysis and data on Music Business Worldwide, plus other member benefits.\r\n\r\n<div class=\"mbw-plus__buttons\"><a class=\"buttons__subscribe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a>\r\n<a class=\"buttons__login\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">Login<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify could easily lose the lawsuit failed against it&#8230; but still win in the long run<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":202042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[130651,130580,4754,108,128649],"class_list":["post-202011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-news","tag-lawsuit","tag-mbw-explains","tag-mechanical-royalties","tag-spotify","tag-the-mlc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}