{"id":8868,"slug":"cosoma-blank-media-levy-breakdown-2026","title":"COSOMA’s own disclosed breakdown of Malawi’s Blank Media Levy collection, FY reported 2026","source":"Four Malawian trade and news outlets reporting the same 3 August 2026 Lilongwe meeting between COSOMA and two rights-holder companies: Times of Malawi, The Maravi Post, Malawi24 and Nation Online, all confirmed live (HTTP 200) on 3 November 2026.","source_url":"https:\/\/times.mw\/creative-industry-managers-bemoan-blank-media-levy-gaps\/","source_type":"trade","method":"Every figure is COSOMA's own disclosed breakdown of the Blank Media Levy (a statutory remuneration right on blank recording media), as reported directly to Akometsi Limited and Madness Entertainment and carried by Malawi24's 4 August 2026 report, cross-read against Times of Malawi and The Maravi Post's accounts of the same meeting. Rows 2 to 5 are COSOMA's stated four-way split of the collected total. Row 6 sums rows 2 to 5. Row 7 is row 1 minus row 6, the share of the collected total the four-way split does not account for. Row 8 is the further 20 per cent deduction COSOMA's own Executive Director, Dora Makwinja, is quoted by Times of Malawi describing as COSOMA's 'management and administration' share, applied to row 5's rights-holder allocation (0.20 x 1,800,000,000). Row 9 is row 5 minus row 8, the amount this desk can trace as actually reaching rights holders. No source read reconciles row 7 with row 8: it is not established in any outlet checked whether these are the same 20 per cent counted once in two different places, or two separate deductions, and this dataset does not assume either answer.","unit":"mwk","license":"Afrobeats Wire's compilation and analysis are licensed CC BY 4.0. Rights in the underlying source data remain with the source named above.","confidence":"medium","retrieved":"2026-11-03 07:56:50","n":9,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"line_item","label":"Line item","type":"text"},{"key":"amount_mwk","label":"Amount, MWK","type":"number"},{"key":"pct_of_collected","label":"Share of K3bn collected, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"line_item":"Total Blank Media Levy collected, year reported","amount_mwk":3000000000,"pct_of_collected":100},{"line_item":"To Malawi Revenue Authority, stated administration fee","amount_mwk":150000000,"pct_of_collected":5},{"line_item":"To government, via Ministry of Finance","amount_mwk":150000000,"pct_of_collected":5},{"line_item":"To the Copyright Fund","amount_mwk":300000000,"pct_of_collected":10},{"line_item":"Earmarked for rights holders, before further deduction","amount_mwk":1800000000,"pct_of_collected":60},{"line_item":"Sum of the four named allocations above","amount_mwk":2400000000,"pct_of_collected":80},{"line_item":"Collected total minus the four named allocations (unaccounted)","amount_mwk":600000000,"pct_of_collected":20},{"line_item":"Further 20pct deduction COSOMA applies to the rights-holder share","amount_mwk":360000000,"pct_of_collected":12},{"line_item":"Net remaining for rights holders after that further deduction","amount_mwk":1440000000,"pct_of_collected":48}]}