{"id":243274,"date":"2025-10-27T19:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=243274"},"modified":"2025-10-27T19:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:35:07","slug":"3-things-you-might-have-missed-about-the-mlcs-revived-bundling-fight-with-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/3-things-you-might-have-missed-about-the-mlcs-revived-bundling-fight-with-spotify\/","title":{"rendered":"3 things you might have missed about The MLC&#8217;s revived bundling fight with Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Mechanical Licensing Collective's legal battle with Spotify over <div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><h3>Sorry, you have hit your monthly limit of MBW+ articles!<\/h3>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">log in<\/a> to gain unlimited access to all analysis and data on Music Business Worldwide, plus other member benefits.\r\n\r\n<div class=\"mbw-plus__buttons\"><a class=\"buttons__subscribe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a>\r\n<a class=\"buttons__login\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">Login<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mechanical Licensing Collective&#8217;s legal battle with Spotify over audiobook bundling and royalty payments has entered a new phase following a series of October court filings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":243324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[130580],"class_list":["post-243274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","tag-mbw-explains"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243274"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243361,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243274\/revisions\/243361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}