Royalty recovery and catalogue rights audits
A catalogue earns across borders, and the money routes through collection societies country by country. Registration gaps are the most common reason royalties go uncollected: an unregistered work, a missing reciprocal agreement, an outdated ownership record. An audit finds them. Recovery follows the paper trail.
Where the money routes
Royalties owed from a stream in one country or a sync placement in another route through that country's local collection society before reaching COMPASS in Singapore and then the artist. Streaming royalties split between the master side, paid to whoever owns the recording, and the publishing side, paid to whoever owns the composition, often through different companies and different payment schedules. A gap at any point in that chain leaves money unpaid.
What the audit settles
Selling a catalogue outright, or borrowing against future royalties, needs a clear picture of what rights exist, who owns each one, and what liabilities might follow the sale. Getting that picture wrong shows up later as a lower valuation, or a deal that falls apart in diligence. An audit builds the record: which works are registered, which agreements route to which society, and who the payments should reach. That record is what recovery, and a sale, both run on.