Music and video streaming giant Spotify has just been hit with a huge lawsuit.
Reuters reports that Wixen Music Publishing Inc filed the $1.6 billion suit last week, alleging copyright infringement related to the use of songs by the Doors, Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Weezer. Neil Young and others.
Spotify failed to get a direct or a compulsory license from Wixen that would allow it to reproduce and distribute songs such as Petty's "Free Falling" and the Doors' “Light My Fire," Wixen said in the lawsuit, filed in a California federal court.
Wixen also accuses Spotify of outsourcing its work to a third party, licensing and royalty services provider the Harry Fox Agency, which was “ill-equipped to obtain all the necessary mechanical licenses.”
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