Policy & Legal
An Audit Says Congo’s Copyright Society Lost 25 Million Dollars. Rumba’s Real Money Is Counted in Paris.
Congolese music royalties are broken at home: an IGF audit found over 25 million dollars missing at SOCODA and just 35,882 dollars confirmed paid to rightsholders. Meanwhile rumba's real money is counted in Paris. Here is where it lands, and what artists control.