Recent news about #Spotify aren't news at all; they were discussed in #copyright hearings back in 2020. If you control the #music catalogue, of course you'll play what costs you less. It's the entire reason #UMG has the valuation it has (huge catalogue of dead people). It's the stated business model of collecting societies like #Soundreef which sell ambient music. EU collecting societies knew back in 2017, and complained their catalogues were being demoted.