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Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by jrochkind1 on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @07:47PM (#16057373)
> When it was apparent our court case was going south, the major music publishers sued us as well (lead by Harry Fox Agency).

From the OP:

> Wixen also alleged that Spotify outsourced its work to a third party, licensing and royalty services provider the Harry Fox Agency, which was “ill-equipped to obtain all the necessary mechanical licenses”.

If there's any justice, if they lose at all in court Spotify will be suing Harry Fox for damages too.

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Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by rhizome on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @08:36PM (#16057584)
Wixen also alleged that Spotify outsourced its work to a third party, licensing and royalty services provider the Harry Fox Agency, which was “ill-equipped to obtain all the necessary mechanical licenses”

Not to mention that SoundExchange makes zero effort to track down rightsholders, seemingly because they get to keep any left over royalties they collect, and IIRC these extra royalties may also be partially distributed to top artists regardless of whoever a particular leftover royalty dollar should be allocated.

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