Did Buena Vista Composers Get Ripped Off?

A court in London considers whether composers of the music played by the wildly popular Buena Vista Social club were properly compensated. “The argument centres on whether the composers of music that took the world by storm in 1997 were properly rewarded or, instead, received “at most a few pesos and maybe a drink of rum”. The plot is complicated by allegations that the Cuban publisher is under the direction and control of the Cuban ministry of the interior.”