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5 September 2013updated 22 Oct 2020 3:55pm

Can the Ministry of Sound sue Spotify – and should they?

There's a copyright in playlists, argues the dance music label, and Alex Hern agrees.

By Alex Hern

The Ministry of Sound is suing Spotify for letting users make and share playlists which mirror the record label’s compilation CDs, the Guardian‘s Stuart Dredge reports:

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