The dance label Ministry of Sound has sued Spotify over alleged copyright infringement carried out by its users, according to a report in The Guardian.
This looks like it will be an interesting case. Obviously Spotify’s users can’t upload anything, so it’s not about that sort of copyright infringement, but rather about the creation of playlists. Ministry of Sound is a popular purveyor of clubland compilations – which are not available on Spotify — and it’s the replication of those track listings as user-generated Spotify playlists that is the issue.
Read this article on GigaOM.com
