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A Spotify representative says music videos will be integrated into the service in the coming weeks for U.S. and Canadian customers, though it did not clarify whether they would be available to all users or just premium subscribers (though the latter was the case for the beta rollout)

The news arrived one day after Spotify and the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) announced they had struck a licensing deal for “expanded audiovisual rights” in the U.S., in a bid to increase the royalty-earning potential of publishers and songwriters who opt in. The agreement came amid a longstanding battle between Spotify and the NMPA over the streamer’s bundling of audiobooks into its premium subscription plans, which Spotify claims qualifies it to pay a discounted royalty rate for U.S. mechanical royalties on its premium tiers. According to sources close to the NMPA deal who previously spoke with Billboard, the organization doesn’t plan to back down from the bundling issue in the wake of the audiovisual rights agreement, as that deal doesn’t address mechanical royalties.

Source: Billboard.com