{"id":5768,"date":"2016-01-04T05:52:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T05:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/01\/04\/spotify-reacts-to-the-class-action-claim\/"},"modified":"2016-01-04T05:52:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T05:52:18","slug":"spotify-reacts-to-the-class-action-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/01\/04\/spotify-reacts-to-the-class-action-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify reacts to the class action claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/44\/Daniel_Ek_addressing_Spotify_staff.jpg\/220px-Daniel_Ek_addressing_Spotify_staff.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Jonathan Prince, Spotify\u2019s global head of communications and public policy, issued a statement in response to the suit.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are committed to paying songwriters and publishers every penny,\u201d  he said. \u201cUnfortunately, especially in the United States, the data  necessary to confirm the appropriate\u00a0rights-holders is often missing,  wrong, or incomplete. When rights-holders are not immediately clear, we  set aside the royalties we owe until we are able to confirm their  identities. We are working closely with the National Music Publishers  Association to find the best way to correctly pay the\u00a0royalties we have  set aside and we are investing in the resources and technical expertise  to build a comprehensive publishing administration system to solve this  problem for good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit caps an eventful few weeks for Spotify. Adele withheld her blockbusting 25 album from the service, but The Beatles belatedly debuted on Spotify and other streaming services on December 24.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<br \/>Image Source: Creative Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Prince, Spotify\u2019s global head of communications and public policy, issued a statement in response&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}