The estates of Robin Williams and George Carlin sued Sirius XM’s Pandora Monday for streaming the late comedians’ recordings without the proper licensing or compensation.

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California by King & Ballow on behalf of five comedians or their estates, including Williams, Carlin, Andrew Dice Clay, Bill Engvall, and Ron White against the streaming service platform.

The lawsuit alleges that the comedians’ material has been “exploited, performed, broadcast, and streamed” across Pandora’s platforms without a license for years, without payment of even “a fraction of a penny.”

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The complaint claims that Pandora’s licenses for the comedians’ work does not include spoken-word comedy, raising “significant liability for copyright infringement.”

The lawsuit against Pandora asks for damages ranging from $4 million for Williams’s estate to around $13 million for White.

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Carlin died in 2008. Williams died in 2014. Clay was a popular comedian in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Engvall and White are known for their work on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.

Pandora has not responded to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.

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