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Unpaid Royalties

Six years of performance royalties went to nobody

Between 2011 and 2017 my works were registered with my name misspelled and an incorrect publisher share. The money did not vanish, exactly. It sat in an unallocated pool and eventually distributed to everyone else in the market by share.

I recovered three years of it after a very long correspondence. The rest was outside the claim window, which is a phrase I now hear in my sleep.

Anonymous Songwriter

Portugal · 2017

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