Spotify won a ruling dismissing the Mechanical Licensing Collective's lawsuit alleging the streamer illegally cut royalty rates by adding audiobooks.

Explore the legal battle between Spotify and the Mechanical Licensing Collective over the reclassification of Spotify's Premium tier.

Spotify has come out on top in a lawsuit that claimed its bundling deals hurt artist pay. The case was all about how Spotify combines its music service with things like audiobooks, which

Spotify convinced a New York federal judge on Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit that accused the streaming service of underpaying songwriting royalties for tens of millions of songs.

A judge dismissed the lawsuit on Wednesday, months after Spotify was sued for lowering royalties to songwriters after it introduced an audiobook bundle to its premium tier

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,

Looks like Spotify’s aggressive bundling strategy is here to stay: The streaming platform has resoundingly triumphed in a related lawsuit from the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC). The presiding judge tossed that roughly eight-month-old legal action with prejudice today,