The biggest news in the music industry recently was a bit of a damp squib. Universal Music Group and Spotify jointly July 22nd that they’d re-upped their global licensing deal — but aside from a vague commitment from Universal to utilize Spotify’s “two-sided marketplace†tools (something we’ll come back to), there didn’t appear to be any major changes to the prior agreement between the world’s biggest recorded music rightsholder and the world’s biggest audio subscription service.
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