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 It happens when two parties claim the same work, when splits are out of date, when a composition is registered under the wrong IPI, or when sparse credits leave a collector to guess.
Good to know
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, but 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- Duplicate or competing registrations, outdated splits, wrong identifiers (ISWC/IPI), and incomplete credits: anything that points a collector at the wrong owner.