The MLC’s lawsuit targeting Spotify’s “cynical trick” to reduce royalties to songwriters through its US-subscriber audiobooks bundle has been thrown out by the court, with the judge saying there is “n

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,

Here’s a music industry newsflash: everybody hates Spotify’s cut-rate ‘bundled’ royalty payments — except for Spotify. Six-year-olds enjoy cauliflower more, but now that Spotify just whipped the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) in court,