Usage-based payments from one party to a second are a valuable source of ongoing income, and some creative people live off them AFROPOP artist Thembeka Mavuso achieved fame when she became the overall winner of a music competition in 1998. She has been in the music industry for over 15 years, and has even backed Sibongile Khumalo, yet she is still not certain how to ensure she makes money each time her music is played."I do not know much about royalties, but I remember the subject being mentioned while I was part of the Joyous Celebration gospel group," she says.She puts the blame on the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (Samro), which she says is "not doing enough to assist us artists by educating us about royalties and what benefits there are for us beyond performing."She claims never to have received a royalty payment.But jazz master Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse says: "Artists are generally lazy people. [They] do not know the benefits of researching the industry they want to g...
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