The New York event honored songwriters including Lana Del Rey, featured a fireside chat with WMG CEO Robert Kyncl and revealed the organization’s latest moves against Spotify.
Savan Kotecha will receive the Non-Performing Songwriter Icon Award
Spotify may have found a way to cut its royalty payments to music publishers. But it could also be in a bundle of trouble.
The NMPA’s letter arrives just a week after The MLC filed a lawsuit against Spotify for “improperly” cutting royalties for songwriters and publishers.
NMPA president and CEO David Israelite pushes back on Spotify’s “potentially unlawful” move to reclassify its service.
A period of “relative peace” between the industry and Spotify appears to be over.
News of the suit comes a week after Billboard estimated that bundling would cause a loss of $150 million in royalties for songwriters in the next year.
“Spotify appears to be engaged in direct infringement by hosting unlicensed musical works in its lyrics, videos and podcasts,” the NMPA writes.
The model TikTok license used by many independent music publishers, as negotiated by the NMPA, is set to expire at the end of April.
The NMPA-founded songwriter foundation adds top hitmakers Dan Wilson, Lauren Christy, Allison Russell and more to its board of directors.
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