money Amazon Music Adding Podcasts, Walk Back Condition That Podcasters Don’t Disparage Amazon
Amazon revealed in emails to multiple podcasters its plans to begin streaming podcasts on Amazon Music and Audible, Billboard and The Desk report. As multiple podcasters have pointed out on social media, the company’s terms and conditions, at the time of the announcement, featured a significant point under the “content restrictions” header that claimed podcasts cannot feature anti-Amazon rhetoric. “Your Content may not include advertising or messages that disparage or are directed against Amazon or any Service,” the terms stated.
Corey Quinn, host of the Screaming in the Cloud tech podcast, tweeted, “I’m a freaking entertainment podcast and I can’t consent to that. How can any actual news podcast?!”
Following the spread of the news of the apparent anti-disparagement clause, Amazon quietly dropped the policy, according to The Desk. The terms, according to The Desk, now state that podcasters must "comply with Amazon’s Creative Acceptance Policies.”
Last year, dozens of musicians participated in a boycott of Amazon’s events and streaming platforms over the company’s contracts with ICE and other branches of law enforcement.
Amazon Music is the latest streaming service to become a podcast catcher. Apple and Google both stream podcasts, while Spotify’s podcasting arm has exclusive deals with figures like Joe Rogan and Kim Kardashian West.
Pitchfork has reached out to Amazon Music representatives for comment.
This article was originally published on Tuesday, August 11 at 10:56 p.m. Eastern. It was last updated on Wednesday, August 12 at 3:53 p.m. Eastern. The original headline of this article was: “Amazon Music Adding Podcasts on the Condition That Podcasters Don’t Disparage Amazon.”
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