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Spotify refuses to delete playlists alignments created by users with exactly the same set of compilations by Ministry of Sound. The charge is the London publisher, who, on Monday, filed a lawsuit against the company of Swedish origin in the Superior Court of the UK. The case law should do.

The 24 million users that Spotify currently has (roughly) created since the launch of the music service online in 2008 More than a billion playlists . It is a popular feature sets to gather and share songs with friends – who can also participate in the construction of alignments – or, in some cases sites with readers.

the choice there are more than 20 million subjects (data for December 2012), properly licensed, users can listen or compile. Among them are the themes used in the Ministry of Sound compilations, that only holds the rights to edit format disk (physical or digital), but not for streaming . This right remains in the source editor.

The Ministry of Sound brand associated with a London nightclub with the same name, accepts this contingency as a difficulty created by the transformation of the music industry in Internet time. What makes the fight for what is left – curating. The publisher argues that intellectual work should also be protected by the law of copyright.

“What we do is more than bundling issues: much research in the creation of our compilations, and intellectual property involved in this. It is not appropriate for someone to make cut-and-paste with them, “says the chief executive of Ministry of Sound, Lohan Presencer, speaking to Guardian , which broke the news of the case on Wednesday.

“It has been incredibly frustrating: we believe it is very clear what we’re arguing, but have hit a brick wall with Spotify,” he continues. Presencer says his publisher has made repeated requests to Spotify since 2012, to withdraw the playlists in question, some of which include the title the words “Ministry of Sound”.

London publisher – which is dedicated to dance music and has sold over 50 million albums in the last 20 years – requires the court action that playlists be cleared, the block of Spotify permanently the possibility of their being re-alignments copied and even compensation that compensates for damages and costs in the process.

A spokesman Spotify – which has no headquarters London, despite the Swedish origin – confirmed to Guardian the existence of the lawsuit, but said the company would not comment.

British daily recalls that in 2010, there was a similar case in the UK involving alloys English and Scottish football. At the time, the High Court ruled in favor of these two representatives of British clubs who wished that their schedules (order of play) were protected by the law of copyright. But the decision was reversed after an appeal. In the music industry, is the first case to come to court.