Mechanical Licensing Collective v. Spotify USA Inc.
Summary
Mechanical Licensing Collective sues Spotify over copyright ownership and mechanical licensing obligations for music.
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Counsel of record
- Paul Weiss (NY)Darren Wright Johnson, Jay Cohen
- Greenbaum Olbrantz LLPDylan O. Smith
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLPJessica C. Benvenisty
- Latham & Watkins LLPAllison Levine Stillman, Cory Daniel Struble, Franco W. Benyamin +4 more
- Clarick Gueron Reisbaum LLPRoyce Liverant Zeisler
- Court
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- Docket no.
- 1:24-cv-03809
- Nature of suit
- Copyright
- Judge
- Analisa Torres
- Filed
- 2024-05-16
- Last filing
- 2026-09-02
- Terminated
- 2025-01-29
Cause
17:201 Ownership of Copyright
Entities in this case
Parties
Spotify USA Inc. Mechanical Licensing Collective
Docket entries
- 2026-06-23
Notice (Other)
- 2026-06-18
Notice Regarding Pro Hac Vice Motion
- 2026-01-21
Notice (Other)
- 2025-10-30
Notice (Other)
- 2025-09-25
Set/Reset Deadlines: Amended Pleadings due by 10/2/2025. (vfr)
- 2025-01-16
Notice (Other)
- 2024-12-05
Set/Reset Deadlines
- 2024-11-19
Notice (Other)
- 2024-11-19
NOTICE TO COUNSEL: REMINDER of the Case Management Conference set for 11/20/2024 at 11:00 AM in Courtroom 17D, 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10007 before Judge Katharine H. Parker re: 36 Order (ca)
- 2024-10-22
Set/Reset Deadlines: Expert Discovery due by 2/14/2025. Fact Discovery due by 12/31/2024. (ar)
- 2024-10-22
Set/Reset Deadlines
- 2024-08-28
Order on Motion to Appear Pro Hac Vice
- 2024-08-27
Notice Regarding Pro Hac Vice Motion
- 2024-05-17
Case Designated ECF. (vf)
- 2024-05-17
***NOTICE TO ATTORNEY REGARDING CIVIL. CASE OPENING STATISTICAL ERROR CORRECTION: Notice to attorney Jay Cohen. The following case opening statistical information was erroneously selected/entered: Cause of Action code 28:1331 Fed. Question. The following correction(s) have been made to your case entry: the Cause of Action code has been modified to 17:201 Ownership of Copyright. (vf)
- 2024-05-17
CASE OPENING INITIAL ASSIGNMENT NOTICE: The above-entitled action is assigned to Judge Analisa Torres. Please download and review the Individual Practices of the assigned District Judge, located at https://nysd.uscourts.gov/judges/district-judges. Attorneys are responsible for providing courtesy copies to judges where their Individual Practices require such. Please download and review the ECF Rules and Instructions, located at https://nysd.uscourts.gov/rules/ecf-related-instructions..(vf)
- 2024-05-17
Case Designated ECF
- 2024-05-17
Notice to Attorney Regarding Case Opening Statistical Error Correction
- 2024-05-17
Case Opening Initial Assignment Notice
- 2024-05-17
Case Designation
Docket history from CourtListener/RECAP — most recent first.