Spotify removes comedy content from Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, and more over royalty dispute - SoyaCincau

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Spoken Giants argued that comedians should get literary rights just like musicians, but Spotify disagreed and took down hundreds of comedy albums.

. This resulted in hundreds of comedians such as Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, Jim Gaffigan getting their comedy albums taken down on the streaming platform.When a musical artist releases a song or an album, they get paid both performance royalties and songwriter royalties. However, the spoken word does not get treated the same as music in copyright law. Comedians only get paid performance royalties, but do not get any ‘songwriter’ royalties or any compensation for writing the work.

Spoken Giants CEO Jim King said that Spotify has a “clear process” for discussing compensation for comedy writers, but ended up removing the work instead of furthering the discussion. Amidst this dispute, a Spotify spokesperson responded by saying that they “paid significant amounts of money for the content in question, and would love to continue to do so”, and pushed the responsibility to the other parties in question.

 

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