Will the Music Industry Ever Get a Handle on Rightsholder Payouts?

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Digital formats have been around for decades. So why is the music industry still struggling with sluggish payouts, metadata mismatches, and the accumulation of enormous unpaid tranches? According to mass payments processing innovators like Tipalti, most companies still struggle to shift from painfully slow processes to strategic automation, despite the enormous upsides.
It’s a sobering reality. But decades since the dawn of digital, the music industry never quite wrapp