Between broadcast companies and content producers Copyright wars have taken to a new dimension. Sweden-based digital music and podcast platform Spotify is the global rights management agency advocating that comedians should be paid. Spoken Giants could not agree with. As a result, he removed the albums and works of many comedians.
Himself “the first global rights management company for owners and creators of word-of-mouth copyrights” Spoken Giants; To comedians who have broadcast their work through platforms like YouTube, SiriusXM, Pandora, and Spotify. royalty payment in the same way as songwriters advocates doing it.
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Spotify didn’t want to sit down with the Spoken Giants
Spotify, including Tiffany Haddish, Kevin Hart and Robin Williams, who passed away in 2014 hundreds of comedians removed from the platform. In a related statement “Unfortunately, Spotify removed the work of individual comedians instead of continuing to negotiate” said Spoken Giants CEO Jim King, interpreting the company’s stance as a form of punishment.
Jim King stated that they are trying to reach Spotify after the comedians they represent as Spoken Giants have removed their work. He said that they requested a meeting due to the copyright dispute. However, the King they didn’t get any response he added.
A Spotify spokesperson told CNN that they’ve already paid comedians a significant amount of money. Spokesman, “We paid a significant amount of money for the content in question and we would love to continue to do so” He responded to the Spoken Giants with his statements. Between the two, the unknown crisis still continues.
It happened to the famous artist Taylor Swift.
On the other hand, the reaction of the content producers to this copyright crisis was not delayed. stand-up comedian based in New York Liz Miele, social media in sharing “All my albums have been removed from Spotify. Because we (comedians big and small) had the courage to ask for the money owed us.” gave his words.
Liz Miele reminded the famous artist Taylor Swift of a similar incident that happened years ago, and used the phrase “I am Taylor Swift now”. Swift protested Spotify, arguing that artists were not paid enough. He removed all of his albums and songs from the platform in 2014. However, in 2017 he reversed this decision.