Artist money fraud, BumaStemra cancels members meeting

Fraudsters have received over 107,000 euros in unjustified compensation from BumaStemra in the past two years. The organization does not know who the fraudsters are and is filing a report.

Fraudsters have managed to get 107,000 euros from BumaStemra, the organization that manages the copyrights of tens of thousands of Dutch music makers. They used false IDs and pretended to be the rights holder. "We found that it happened with 81 accounts and we blocked them," says Marcel Gelauff, the interim chairman of BumaStemra. "During internal checks we noticed that the accounts were created with false Gmail addresses that looked very simila…

The General Meeting of BumaStemra will not take place on Wednesday, because the organization for copyrights for musicians has discovered dozens of fraud cases. A total of 107,000 euros was paid out to fraudulent accounts, which have now been blocked. During the meeting of members, the annual figures were to be discussed, but according to the organization that is not useful now.