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Pay attention to the accounting!! Make sure you are getting your statements 💯

8 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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Two music industry figures discuss chronic royalty accounting problems, including a 35-year dispute where someone named Orville allegedly used deceptive tactics, issuing misleading statements sporadically over decades. Rights holders struggle to track earnings when statements stop coming for years at a time.

Every couple of days I'm sending in an infringement to Sony because, you know what I mean, because, you know, for clearance and stuff like that. And they, they're catching up, they're catching up with a lot of people and stuff like that and working it out. But nah, Orville had a long battle for 35 years against— yeah, I mean, this guy, yeah, this guy was not paying him. And, um, you know, he was kind of doing the Jelly Bean thing, I would say, where he was deceiving them on the statements.
Was he— I was just gonna say, was he even accounting to them? I don't even remember who was getting statements.
When he wanted to.
Okay.
When he want— you know, he might send you a statement. He might not send you a statement for 10 years. You call him up, all of a sudden he send you a statement for a year, and then he stops again. Things like that. You know what I'm saying?