Spotify has so far failed to reach a deal with Spoken Giants, a company seeking to win royalties for comedians as writers of their jokes.
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Comedians get paid performance fees when recordings are played on a streaming service like Spotify, Apple or YouTube, but they don’t receive royalties for having written the jokes like songwriters do for their songs.Wall Street Journal , the company has paid “significant amounts of money” for comedy content and wants “to continue” doing so.
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