Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Comedians and other spoken word authors are seeking the same streaming royalties paid to songwriters, but an impasse has led to the removal of their works from Spotify. Random question: Does anyone know why some of the Comedy Central albums got taken off Spotify? Do you want to be paid, or do you want to be heard?

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Last week, Spotify removed a slew of popular comedians from their service including John Mulaney, Kevin Hart, Lewis Black and Tiffany Haddish to name just a few. Why is it suddenly a big enough issue that Spotify feels compelled to remove many of the most famous comedians from its service, and when will things likely return to normal?

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

2: The Battle Over Comedy Tracks. In December 2021, Spotify made the abrupt decision to remove a long list of comedy performers from their streaming service. With every audio track, there are two copyrights, a copyright in the audio recording itself and a copyright in the composition behind it.

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