Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain

Re:Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking do... by DannyBee on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @08:21PM (#46789777)

I do understand what can happen (I'm an IP lawyer), but this basically requires enabling spotify to act as your attorney, since they still do not in fact own the rights, even with this. You can't manufacture standing here - only folks who are exclusive rightsholders can sue. Period. So it would require giving them power of attorney enabling them to sue on your behalf, since you (or whoever) still own the exclusive rights .

I strongly doubt their contract terms have this in there, it would be fairly shocking.

I say this having seens tons of these kinds of contracts, even with spotify, and never seeing something like this.

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Re:Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking do... by solaris2007 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @12:59AM (#46791621)

What I have seen in practice (not with Spotify) is a law firm that is cozy with both entities will be delegated standing, the "powers" in power of attorney but with clauses defining a limited scope and "escape hatch" and "kill switch" clauses.

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