But comedy licensing problems haven't had a firm test in court, according to Puck, and the outcome of the Pandora case could affect how Spotify and other services pay comedians for their work. It paid $90 million in 2015 to settle a fight over allegations it used a loophole to play pre-1972 songs without paying labels, and was sued in 2019 for supposedly displaying lyrics from Rage Against the Machine and Tom Petty without permission.
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Pandora isn't a stranger to license battles. George Carlin Appears on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Getty Images Getty Images Entertainment Kevin Winter. Companies frequently include risk alerts like this in filings regardless of their licensing intentions, however. On Comedy: I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. In those filings, the service warned investors it couldn't guarantee the company would avoid "additional licensing costs" from rights groups for spoken-word comedy. The estates claim Pandora confessed to having improper licenses in SEC filings between 20, predating SiriusXM's acquisition. Performing at the Celebrity Star Theater in Phoenix on July 23, 1978, Carlin mesmerizes his audience in the second of his 12 HBO specials. On Location: George Carlin at Phoenix (1978 TV Special) Error: please try again. Comedians Andrew Dice Clay, Bill Engvall and Ron White have also made complaints, asserting Pandora hasn't provided a "fraction of a penny" for their work. A list of the best George Carlin TV stand up performances.
Williams' estate wants $4.1 million in damages for copyright infringement, while Carlin's is seeking $8.4 million.
The late comedians' representatives claim Pandora only has the licenses to stream the recordings, not the jokes themselves - and it supposedly doesn't have "any copyright."
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Both Puck and The Verge have learned the estates of Robin Williams and George Carlin have sued SiriusXM's Pandora for allegedly streaming the comedy legends' jokes without full licenses. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.Spotify isn't the only streaming service to face a dispute with comedians. So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. He was raised by his very religious mother with whom he had a strained relationship. His parents separated when he was very young. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another or, if one of the 'mind adventures' got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren't unconscious anymore. George Carlin was born George Denis Patrick Carlin on May 12, 1937, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, to Patrick Carlin, an advertising manager, and his wife Mary Bearey, a secretary. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious.
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If you didn't know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you'd seen. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.' 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. “People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing.