Spotify
Kevan Choset is a legal professional with extensive experience in various roles within the legal sector. Currently serving as Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Spotify since July 2013, Kevan is responsible for legal strategy, overseeing litigation, copyright, intellectual property, platform liability and enforcement, employment law, and legal compliance functions. Prior to this role, Kevan held positions at MTV Networks as Associate General Counsel and at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP and Cahill Gordon & Reindel as Associate. Kevan holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard University.
Spotify
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Spotify is an audio and media streaming service that hosts music, podcasts and tv shows. Founded in 2008, Spotify has grown to one of the largest streaming platforms in the world, offering over 70 million tracks to its 360+ million users across 170+ markets. They are headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with offices in over a dozen countries. Spotify’s mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify helps users to discover, manage, and share music on their phone, computer or tablet by browsing through the collections of friends, artists, and celebrities, by creating a radio station, or by curating their own playlists. A leader in revenue generation for the music industry, over 1,000 artists generated over $1 million on Spotify in 2021, 450 generations more than $2 million, and 130 generated over $5 million. Spotify also paid out over $1 billion dollars to publishing rights holders (songwriters and producers) in 2021.