NMPA Sends Takedown Notices to Spotify Over Podcasts
The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) is sending takedown notices to Spotify to “remove thousands of unlicensed uses of NMPA members’ works” in podcasts on the platform, NMPA said in a news release Tuesday. “Over 2,500 detections of infringement” are…
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covered by the takedown notices, it said. The effort is a continuation of a cease and desist letter NMPA issued in May. “Podcasts are a growing source of revenue for songwriters and publishers, and it is essential that podcasts provide lawfully produced entertainment,” NMPA President David Israelite said in the release. “This is not hard to do, and Spotify knows, and has known, how to fix this problem for their users.” Spotify didn’t comment.