In Cuba, a thriving underground trade in bootlegged versions of censored films and music is a mixed blessing for artists who want their work known yet still wish to get paid. For example,
“hip-hop group Clan 537′s “Quién Tiró la Tiza?” (“Who Threw the Chalk?”) was never released domestically, but it still became a hit with young Cubans. “You can ask any young Cuban if they know that disc,” said Darsi Fernández Maceira, the representative in Cuba of the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, a management group that defends the intellectual property of its 66,000 member artists worldwide. “They do. The demo went through the whole country.”"