The Business of Music – Publishing 101
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Words by Mercia Tucker In early April 2018, a prominent Sunday newspaper ran a story with the headline “Gospel shocker: How black musicians got screwed”. The story purported to be an exposé on a ‘royalty pay-out scam’ involving gospel star Hlengiwe Mhlaba and the Southern African Music Rights Organisation, also known as SAMRO. While it […]