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Daniel Griffiths

Spotify wins major court case, over controversial 'bundling' that lowered artist payments

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Spotify has just won in a US court case regarding claims that an attempt to add extra value to their customers was simply a move to reduce payments to artists on the platform.

The bundling of an audiobook service into the already millions of music tracks available had been seen as a clever tactic that hugely increased the volume of minutes of content that the platform offered, thus further watering down the amount per stream that an artist could earn.

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