Originally Posted by Brian Austin Whitney
Melissa is a very successful artist and is also a JPF member (and award nominees multiple times). I may send her a note to get clarification, but she's no clueless amateur. She's a long time big time earning artist who simply preferred to use CD Baby to distribute. If she made a mistake in licensing, then CD Baby would be the target first, but she's not suing them I am guessing she didn't give permission and neither did CD Baby and so they somehow put her stuff up there without permission. Will look into it more.

I'm not saying she's a clueless amateur.

My guess is, something is amiss somewhere else in the chain. I searched her out and she's on multiple digital sites (not just Spotify) which makes it likely that there was intent to distribute digitally. And nearly every distribution agreement I've seen actually has a clause stating they will put content into any new store or service as it comes out. Also, if she made the mistake with licensing, then its not Spotify's or even CD Baby's fault (as CD Baby's digital distribution agreement is very well spelled out, as are the various levels in how to distribute digitally).

Please find out. I'd like to know the exact reason that led to this they don't have a license thing.

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