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PPL is linking with the Performers' Forum (PF) to track down thousands of musicians who are entitled to a share in an unclaimed royalty mountain of "several million pounds".

The organisations are going online and launching a major advertising campaign this week, in a bid to discover the identities of the underpaid performers, who are said to number up to 7,000. The money is made up of airplay royalties generated following the introduction of equitable remuneration legislation in 1996, which gave all performers a share of money collected on a track from broadcasters and other users.

Dominic McGonigal, director of strategy and business development at PPL, says 23,000 people have already been traced after starting the search from scratch five years ago. He says he is confident that the ...

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