Jim Gaffigan performs onstage at the 15th Annual Stand Up For Heroes Benefit at Alice Tully Hall presented by the Bob Woodruff Foundation and the NY Comedy Festival on November 8, 2021 in New York City.
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Spotify has removed hundreds of albums and comedian works from the streaming platform in a royalty and copyright dispute, the Wall Street Journal reported.
A global rights administration company, Spoken Giants, is working with a group of high profile comedians to negotiate terms that would allow comics to get paid when their work gets paid on platforms like Spotify, SiriusXM, Pandora and YouTube. , the Journal reported on Saturday. . Spotify has removed the work of artists such as Tiffany Haddish, Jim Gaffigan, Kevin Hart, and John Mulaney.
The comedians aim to collect royalties for “the underlying copyrights of talk media composition,” according to the Journal, in the same way a songwriter would be paid for their music and lyrics.
Spotify pulled the comedians’ work from the streaming platform when the two groups found themselves in a bind.
“Spotify has paid significant sums for the content in question and would like to continue to do so,” according to a statement from Spotify to CNBC. “However, as Spoken Giants disputes the rights of various licensors, it is imperative that the labels that distribute this content, Spotify and Spoken Giants come together to resolve this issue to ensure that this content remains available to fans. of the whole world. “
Read more about the negotiations in the Wall Street Journal.
Correction: Spoken Giants does not represent comedian Kevin Hart. This fact was distorted in an earlier version of this article.
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