[2][3][4] Among the hundreds of performers Spoken Giants represents are Mike Birbiglia,[3] Lewis Black, Dan Cummins, Gerry Dee, Pete Holmes, Kyle Kinane, Kathleen Madigan, the Ralphie May Estate, and Theo Von.
[3] On November 24, 2021, without advance warning,[8] digital streaming provider Spotify removed thousands of comedy tracks including those of Robin Williams, John Mulaney, Mike Birbiglia, Jeff Foxworthy, and more in a response to collection of literary royalties on behalf of comedians.
[18] In 2022, a series of lawsuits was filed in California federal court alleging that Pandora Media, owned by SiriusXM, failed to obtain proper copyrights for streaming comedians' works.
The estates of Robin Williams and George Carlin, along with comedians Andrew Dice Clay, Bill Engvall, and Ron White, claimed Pandora had not properly licensed their performances.
[19] In response, Pandora countersued, filing an antitrust lawsuit against the comdians, accusing them of colluding with performing rights organisations Spoken Giants LLC and Word Collections Inc to monopolize comedy copyrights and inflate royalty rates.