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Are Spotify and the Comedy Community Headed Into Battle? What’s Behind the Faceoff
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variety.comChris Willman Music WriterYou don’t hear much about a “war on Christmas” this year, but you do hear murmurings about a war on comedy.
It’s a loggerheads that has Spotify under scrutiny for removing a significant number of comedy albums from its service, in response to many comics and their reps believing they have a right to the same kind of dual royalties that musicians have always gotten.Comedy performances already earn royalties from streaming services for the mechanical license — that is, for the actual audio recording.
But music, apart from comedy, requires two licenses: one for the recording and one for the song itself. It has long fallen to performance rights organizations like BMI, ASCAP and SESAC to collect those publishing.
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