Spotify picked up another outside lobbyist this month as it fights antitrust and copyright battles, according to filing published this week.
A team from Crossroads Strategies will lobby on issues “related to ongoing licensing, copyright, intellectual property, and related issues in the music and technology industries” as well as “issues related to antitrust.”
The latter is of particular interest because of Spotify’s ongoing war with Apple Music. Spotify claims that the much-larger Apple has used a commissions system for applications in its mobile store, like Spotify, to raise prices for its services that compete with Apple’s streaming service.
That’s a case that Spotify has increasingly been making in Washington. The company been lobbying lawmakers on the issue in an attempt to recruit Capitol Hill allies to its cause.
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