Take your royalty checks, SoundExchange begs - Los Angeles Times - Page 2

Take your royalty checks, SoundExchange begs - Los Angeles Times - Page 2

Take your royalty checks, SoundExchange begs

Money is piling up from digital music streams, and the nonprofit has to track down artists who don't know. Then it has to convince them it's not a scam.

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March 12, 2010|By Alex Pham
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"I'm a niche within a niche," he said. "People like me fall below the radar."

The "dirty data" phenomenon hampers the collection of royalties by other groups as well.

"This affects everyone," said Patrick Sullivan, chief of RightsFlow, which helps track a separate set of royalties. "Without proper data, we can't get the money out to the license holders. We have to do it better, because ultimately if we don't get paid, no one gets paid."

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