Two Men Charged in Music Royalty Scam Collecting $20M from YouTube

Two men have been charged with allegedly running a years-long music royalty scam, in which they collected more than $20 million in payments from YouTube by falsely claiming to hold the rights to 50,000 Spanish-language songs. Prosecutors say Jose “Chanel” Teran, 36, of Scottsdale, Ariz. and Webster “Yenddi” Batista, 38, of Doral, Fla. claimed their company, MediaMuv Inc., controlled the rights to a large back catalog of music.

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