Spotify is Hit With a 1.6 Billion Lawsuit from Wixen Music Publishing Inc Classic songs from Weezer, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Neil Young and the Doors have been getting spins on Spotify without proper licensing from their publisher. In a lawsuit recently filed in California Federal Court Wixen claims that Spotify has been using their music with proper paperwork. The 2018 lawsuit follows another one from last year where Spotify paid $43 million dollars for failing to pay royalties on some of the songs they used on their platform. The difference between Spotify and Facebook is that Facebook has created a platform