Ministry Of Sound's battles are always interesting, but its latest bit of litigation is fascinating. The clubbing firm has sued Spotify because the streaming company has refused to remove playlists posted to its platform by users which copy tracklistings of compilation albums released by the Ministry label.
Although Ministry is yet to licence music from its catalogue of original releases to Spotify, most of the tracks on the firm's famous compilation releases belong to other labels, often majors, and are therefore available via the streaming service, enabling users to organise said tracks into playlists in the order they appear on their favourite Ministry compos. But, argues Ministry, intellectual property exists in the curation of the compilation records, in addition to the various copyrights that exist in the featured tracks.
