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Senators: Spotify’s Bundling Plan ‘Harms Consumers,’ Call on FTC to Investigate

By Jem Aswad Jun 20, 2025 | 10:23 AM

Senators Marsha Blackburn and Ben Ray Luján bitterly criticized Spotify’s music-audiobooks bundling plan, which lowers royalties to songwriters and music publishers by hundreds of millions of dollars every year, in a letter released Friday asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the streaming giant. In the letter, the senators say that the plan, launched last year — which substantially lowers […]