`Confusion & Inconsistency`: Spotify, Amazon Make Case Against Royalty Board Rate Determination
(WorldNews Music)

Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Play and Pandora have filed their appeal of the Copyright Royalty Board`s mechanical rate determination, which will see music publishers and writers enjoy a 44% rate increase by 2023. The digital services filed their appeal late Wednesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The DSPs are asking the appeals court to examine whether the CRB made numerous legal errors while adopting a rate structure that was not proposed — and not justified by explanation or evidence — thereby depriving the services the right to rebut the logic on which the determination is based. Moreover, the services also claim that the CRB`s decision to retroactively...