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Spotify has won a lawsuit over a bundling strategy it adopted which led to decreased royalty payments to songwriters.It comes after the streaming company introduced a new audiobooks bundle to its premium subscription last year.Spotify started to pay a lesser royalty rate to songwriters, and argued that the move was backed by a settlement they had reached with music publishers in 2022 through the Copyright Royalty Board, which determined streaming services are allowed to pay less on music subscriptions bundled with other services.The Mechanical Licensing Collective, a nonprofit organisation responsible for issuing mechanical licences to streaming services, filed a lawsuit against Spotify last May, claiming that it had incorrectly characterised the bundle and “unilaterally and unlawfully” began reducing the rate by as much as 50 percent without any warning, according to Rolling Stone.In a memorandum filed in court yesterday (January 29), it was ruled that Spotify was within its rights, calling the bundling rule “unambiguous.”Judge Analisa Torres added: “The only plausible application of the law supports Spotify’s position. Under the facts as alleged, audiobook streaming is a product or service that is distinct from music streaming and has more than token value.

In the lull between the Beyoncé dominated Grammys of February 2 and Kendrick Lamar‘s Roc Nation produced half time show at Super Bowl LIX on February 9, Jay-Z is making some shifts in strategy in the hopes of getting tossed out claims that the Big Pimpin rapper, the incarcerated Sean “Diddy” Combs and a currently unidentified female “Celebrity B” repeatedly sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl in 2000.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Spotify has defeated a lawsuit from the Mechanical Licensing Collective that accused the streaming giant of unfairly cutting royalty rates as part of its audiobooks-music “bundling” option announced last year, according to Billboard. Although the MLC claimed that Spotify had “unilaterally and unlawfully” cut its music-royalty payments via the bundle, a federal judge ruled that its move was supported by “unambiguous” regulations.

Thania Garcia Jay-Z has filed a motion to dismiss the ongoing lawsuit against him filed by a woman who alleges the rapper and Sean “Diddy” Combs sexually assaulted her when she was 13 years old during a VMAs after party in 2000. Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, filed the new motion on Wednesday after securing the greenlight to do so from United States District Judge Analisa Torres.

JAY-Z just scored a big win in the child rape lawsuit against him.

The woman suing JAY-Z and Diddy for sexual assault just scored a win.

Jay-Z suffered a loss in court after being sued for sexual assault.

Jay-Z‘s accuser can remain anonymous, a judge has ruled, while the rapper’s lawyer has been criticised for a “relentless filing of combative motions”.On December 8, it was reported that Jay-Z – real name Shawn Carter – was named in a lawsuit which alleged the rape of a 13-year-old girl in 2000 by the rapper and Diddy, real name Sean Combs.In a statement issued via Roc Nation, Carter called the allegations “heinous in nature” and dismissed them as a “blackmail attempt”, and filed a court letter seeking the dismissal of the suit while maintaining his innocence. Combs also denies the accuser’s claims.The letter also sought to reveal the identity of the accuser, but in a ruling on Thursday (December 26), Judge Analisa Torres declared that the woman can proceed anonymously in the case, as reported by Rolling Stone.The judge pointed to the “weight of the factors” including the “highly sensitive and extremely personal” nature of the claim in making her decision, arguing it “tips the favour of allowing Plaintiff to remain anonymous, at least for this stage of the litigation”.Torres then added that the “relentless filing of combative motions containing inflammatory language and ad hominem attacks is inappropriate, a waste of judicial resources, and a tactic unlikely to benefit his client.

Thania Garcia The woman accusing Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 can proceed anonymously (“at least for now”) in her lawsuit against the rappers, a judge ruled Thursday. New York Judge Analisa Torres also condemned the legal team representing Jay-Z (real name Shawn Carter) for the “relentless filing of combative motions containing inflammatory language and ad hominem attacks [on accuser’s lawyer, Tony Buzbee],” according to a court order obtained by Variety.

Less than 24 hours after Beyoncé‘s triumphant Christmas Day NFL halftime extravaganza blew Netflix viewers’ wigs off, a legal storm has hit the Carter household as Jay-Z lost his Hail Mary attempt to terminate the case against him and the incarcerated Sean “Diddy” Combs that alleges the duo violently assaulted a minor more than 20 years ago.

accused Jay-Z of raping her when she was 13 years old nearly 25 years ago a secret for now — just weeks after the rap hip-hop mogul’s attorney pushed for her name to be revealed.In a new filing Thursday, Judge Analisa Torres scolded the rapper’s lawyer Alex Spiro for being combative and attempting to “fast-track” the judicial process after he made multiple requests that the court deny the alleged victim’s plea request to remain anonymous and dismiss the scathing lawsuit filed against Jay-Z — whose real name is Shawn Carter.“Carter’s lawyer’s relentless filing of combative motions containing inflammatory language and ad hominem attacks is inappropriate, a waste of judicial resources, and a tactic unlikely to benefit his client,” Torres said in the five-page filing.“The Court will not fast-track the judicial process merely because counsel demands it,” the judge added.

A “cavalcade of misconduct” and “rule breaking.”

As any deep pocket client of Alex Spiro will tell you, the high-profile trial attorney often executes a maximum impact strategy of very targeted attacks on the case against said client, as well as the planting of legal landmines to blow up the other side down the line.

UPDATED, 12:33 PM: A federal judge in Manhattan has thrown out a sexual assault lawsuit filed last year against Former Recording Academy President Neil Portnow after the accuser cited safety concerns over her name being revealed in court.