Written by Chris CastleFebruary 25, 2018February 25, 2018

How Shareholder Lawsuits Against Spotify May Have Just Gotten Easier

Spotify is rigging the shareholder voting rights in its soon to be public stock and also rigging songwriters rights to statutory damages in the Music Modernization Act. But they can’t stop shareholder derivative suits which may have them running for statutory damages at the end of the day.

Written by Chris CastleFebruary 4, 2018February 6, 2018

So Much for Conversion: Apple Set to Pass Spotify in Subscribers

Remember this one? Spotify was saving us all from piracy by giving the music for free in its ad supported tier. And if you had any doubts about that, just ask any Spotify employee, particularly circa 2011 or so. They’d tell you in no uncertain terms that not only did you just not get it, […]

Written by Chris CastleJanuary 9, 2018

The Slippery Slope of Censorship: @HuffPost Pulls Story Critical of @Spotify Ahead of IPO — The Trichordist

Blake Morgan wrote a post critical of Spotify on Huffington Post and the HuffPo censored him–until David Lowery came along…

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How Shareholder Lawsuits Against Spotify May Have Just Gotten Easier

So Much for Conversion: Apple Set to Pass Spotify in Subscribers

The Slippery Slope of Censorship: @HuffPost Pulls Story Critical of @Spotify Ahead of IPO — The Trichordist