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We need to talk about this.
The company then says, Look, we dont owe you that money.
And now were not going to pay you at all until this gets figured out.
In the comedy world, thus far, only the performance side the streaming tracks have been given royalties.
Spoken Giants and another company, Word Collections, are aiming to change that and recoup the lost money.
Taylor Swift writes her own music; she performs her own music.
After consulting with copyright lawyers and experts, as well as the U.S. We are offering to reach initial short-term deals whatever it takes to get us started, he says.
(Spotify did not return a request for clarification on how many albums and tracks were ultimately removed.)
The statement also doesnt address the decision to pull the albums.
We said, No, we dont want anything from our members taken down.
Well, that didnt happen and then Thanksgiving happened.
SPOTIFY: WELL FCK IT DEN!
Another was a clip fromThe40-Year-Old Virginthat was edited to include subtitles that tie it to this conflict.
And the chart shows my $ from ALL streaming, not just Spotify and Pandora.
Eddie Pepitone is among the many comedians who werent aware their craft wasnt being properly compensated.
Like a lot of creative artists, stupidly, Im not great at business, he tells Vulture.
Then I come to find out were not.
He adds that streaming is a decent supplemental income that particularly helped in the pre-vaccine COVID era.
Predictably, hes pissed at Spotify and its chutzpah in removing the albums.
For them to then pull down our work, its so nasty.
Its so Fuck you, he says.
I mean, is there a bigger Fuck you than But here is your holiday gift from Spotify?
Also, who do they get to work on Thanksgiving Eve to take all this stuff down?
Jesus, thats not a great job either.
For now, the situation remains open-ended.
All thats clear now is that there is more bargaining to come between Spotify and the publishing side.
