The frontman of Camper Van Beethoven filed his second suit in favor of musician’s rights on December 28th, Pitchfork reports. The suit claims that Spotify published tracks without sufficient efforts to obtain copyright permission, and thus illegally distributed.
This case adds itself to a number of legal issues facing the musical subscription service—since last year’s Taylor Swift open letter, it’s also apparently been negotiating with the National Music Publishers Association regarding similar claims of music sharing without proper copyright licenses.
