Spotify received a claim for $ 150 million for unpaid royalties

According to The Verge , musician David Lowry (David Lowery) filed a lawsuit against Spotify, claiming that the streaming music service deliberately distributes content without proper rights. The musician demands that the service pay him $ 150 million in damages for illegally posting on Spotify and distributing his several songs.

This is not the first lawsuit that Lowry filed in defending his copyright. In this complaint, Lowry argues that Spotify inflicts "substantial harm and damage to copyright holders" intentionally without obtaining proper licenses to reproduce and distribute copyrighted works. David also claims that Spotify illegally copied and posted a few songs of his band Cracker, including songs titled King of Bakersfield, Almond Grove and Tonight I Cross the Border. In court, Lowry will represent a group of one hundred performers who are also dissatisfied with the service policy towards copyright holders.

In addition, the complaint from Lowry said that the streaming service “holds from 17 to 25 million dollars in reserve” in case the content owners start demanding compensation for damage caused by the service’s activities.
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“We are committed to paying every penny to songwriters and publishers,” said Jonathan Prince, head of communications at Spotify. He states the following: “Unfortunately, the data required to confirm who exactly is the copyright holder is often missing, either there is not enough information for this, or it is incorrect. This is especially common in the United States. When the right holders are not identified immediately, we postpone the license fees that we have to pay until we can determine who exactly is the owner of the content. ”