Apple Wrongly Pulled Musi From App Store in IP Row, Lawsuit Says

Apple Inc.‘s “unjustifiable removal” of Musi Inc.'s music streaming app from its app store—"based upon an unsubstantiated” intellectual property complaint—is a breach of its own agreement with developers, the app maker said in a federal lawsuit.

The technology giant lacked a “reasonable basis” to believe the app infringed Alphabet Inc.‘s YouTube’s intellectual property rights, Musi said in a complaint filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The app’s takedown violates the Apple Developer Program License Agreement, it said.

Musi asked the court to reinstate the app to Apple’s store and to award ...