Jim Gaffigan performs on stage during the 15th annual Stand Up For Heroes welfare show 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 removed hundreds of albums by comedians and works from the streaming platform amid a dispute over royalties and copyright, Wall Street Journal reported.
A global rights management company, Spoken Giants, is working with a group of popular comedians to negotiate terms that allow comics to be paid when their work is paid on platforms like Spotify. , SiriusXM, Pandora and YouTube, the Journal reported on Saturday. Spotify has removed the work from performers such as Tiffany Haddish, Jim Gaffigan, Kevin Hart, and John Mulaney.
According to the Journal, comedians aim to collect royalties for “basic compositional copyrights of spoken media,” similar to how a musician would be paid for his music and lyrics. surname.
Spotify took the comedians’ work off the streaming platform when the two groups reached an impasse.
“Spotify has paid a substantial amount for the content in question and is eager to continue to do so,” according to a statement by Spotify to CNBC. “However, because Spoken Giants is disputing the rights that different licensors have, the labels that distribute this content, Spotify, and Spoken Giants must work together to resolve this issue in order to secure this content. is still available to fans around the globe.”
Read more about the talks in the Wall Street Journal.
Correction: Spoken Giants do not represent comedian Kevin Hart. That fact was misrepresented in an earlier version of this article.
