These don't feel like publishing decisions to me (though I'm not a music publisher.) I can understand an artist/publisher saying 'No streaming at all!' - many do. If Spotify ignored legal requests to stop streaming music that they didn't have the right to stream, then Spotify would be sued out of existence in a week, and NONE of your playlists would work anymore.īUT: as points out, sometimes the same material can be re-downloaded almost immediately also, I've noticed (from having multiple overlapping music subscriptions at times) that sometimes, particular content won't be available on one service, but will be available on the others. I feel your pain - I've had that happen too, on every music subscription service I've been on (which is basically ALL of them - Spotify, Rhapsody, Zune, Xbox Music Pass).īut there's really no way a company can legally 'stop letting artists and outhouse lawyers' tell them what to do - Spotify doesn't own publishing rights on these songs, the artists and the publishing corporations who hire the lawyers do.

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