• Ptsf@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Due to the uniquely fucked up way music licensing works, it’s likely they license the lyrics through a separate company than the music and probably don’t even directly license it themselves (Tidal for example uses Musicmatch’s lyric library and api). There’s a cost associated with this that is likely outside their control. It’s shitty, but it is plalusibly reasonable they implemented this as a cost savings measure.

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      5 months ago

      That’s a good point. That might actually make the case for “undue burden”.

      A court case about it could be a way for Spotify to pass the problem to their licensors, in theory.