Royalties
Mismatched Royalties
Mismatched royalties are paid out — but to the wrong party — because of duplicate or competing claims, stale splits, or inaccurate credits. Unlike unclaimed money, it's already gone to someone else.
Matching can fail in a way that's worse than money sitting unclaimed: the royalty pays out to the wrong owner. It happens when two parties claim the same work, when splits are out of date, when a composition is registered under the wrong IPI, or when sparse credits leave a collector to guess.
Mis-matches are harder to catch than unclaimed royalties because the money looks paid — just not to you. Finding them means reconciling what each society and platform actually paid against who really owns the work. Notes registers your works with correct, conflict-free data and reconciles payouts so mis-matches surface and can be corrected.
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Mismatched Royalties: common questions
- How is this different from unclaimed royalties?
- Unclaimed royalties were never matched to anyone and sit in black-box pools. Mismatched royalties were paid — to the wrong party — so recovering them means correcting the data and resolving the competing claim.
- What causes a mis-match?
- Duplicate or competing registrations, outdated splits, wrong identifiers (ISWC/IPI), and incomplete credits — anything that points a collector at the wrong owner.