[jsheard]

Anna's Archive recently released a dump of the entire Spotify catalogue so they are very much in the music industries crosshairs as well now.

[layer8]

Only metadata has been released so far.

[rswail]

A lot of which was contributed by users typing in CD play lists to CDDB which got corporatised by GraceNote and ended up somewhere in Sony land.

So this effectively re-releases into the public domain a lot of the user contributions during the 1990s.