Taylor Swift reappears on Spotify, but her music is credited to Lostprophets

Digital music and audio | The Guardian 2015-12-23

Summary:

The pop star is back on the streaming service after pulling her music, but something odd has happened

This is weird: Taylor Swift was briefly back on Spotify. With just one song, from her 2012 album Red. And with the copyright attributed to paedophile former rock star Ian Watkins and his band, Lostprophets.

Taylor Swift's I Knew You Were Trouble is appearing on the Lost Prophets artist page as a new release pic.twitter.com/UaBhEUTiB0

The track in question was delivered to us by a provider, whose responsibility it is to ensure that content delivered to Spotify is fully licensed and in compliance with our Infringement Policy. We take the integrity of our catalogue very seriously, and will immediately remove any content that is found to be incorrectly licensed or attributed to the incorrect artist or composer.

The track was taken down as soon as it was discovered (3 days after it was delivered), and we will be taking the matter further with the provider who delivered this track.

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Link:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/07/taylor-swift-spotify-lostprophets

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Music and Digital Media ยป Digital music and audio | The Guardian

Tags:

technology spotify music media lostprophets internet digital music and audio culture

Authors:

Alex Hern and Elena Cresci

Date tagged:

12/23/2015, 10:08

Date published:

12/07/2015, 04:54