UNISON will launch SOLO, the platform that enables global management of all digital rights on one single place, providing the most advanced professional tools for any artist to manage their digital rights. SOLO tracks all digital rights earnings from compositions and recordings in one unique, easy-to-use and transparent dashboard without intermediaries. In addition, it integrates…
This year, as part of the Digital Licensing Sessions, Primavera Pro and Unison wants to get you closer to the opportunity to have one of your songs used in a film, series, commercial or other audio-visual media. Fifteen music supervisors from all over the world, working in film, television, advertising, video games and other audio-visual…
Digital licensing is a topic that year after year is gaining more importance in the music industry, and the second edition of Digital Licensing Sessions at Primavera Pro 2023 confirms it. In partnership with Unison in a second year in a row, and from May 31 to June 1 at the CCCB, the event will…
EarthPercent (aka ‘The Earth’), the UK and US-based environmental charity co-founded by world-renowned music artist Brian Eno, today announced the pilot of a groundbreaking initiative to adopt the construct of the Earth as a songwriter and legal beneficiary of music royalties. This marks an unprecedented step by the music industry to support songwriters who wish…
The first Open Call from BELEM to the industry aims to provide more accurate translations of works and increase the potential for artists, labels and publishers to monetise lyrics. BELEM, a Creative Europe EU-funded co- operation project, in which UNISON is participating in a very active manner as one of the partners, is announcing its…
At Unison we have filed a new lawsuit against the Spanish CMO (Sociedad General de Autores y Editores – SGAE) before the Commercial Courts of Barcelona, for abuse of dominant position in the Spanish rights management market. The new lawsuit has been filed as a result of the anti-competitive practices of abusive litigation (“sham ligitation”)…
UNISON has joined forces with a consortium of major music industry players, including Zebralution and LyricFind, to form BELEM. The consortium aims to build capacity for music publishers, songwriters, platforms, and labels to democratise and monetize access to lyrics. It will also strive to break down cultural barriers by making human translated lyrics accessible to…
UNISON is pleased to announce that David Serras, Licensing and International Manager at our Company, has been appointed as Co-Chair of Association for Electronic Music (AFEM) CMO Relation Group. In that Group, David will join the Top Industry Experts, Yuri Dokter from DJ Monitor, Kurosh Nasseri AFEM CO-FOUNDER & CHAIR, and Silvia Montello AFEM’s CEO.This…
Ukraine needs everyone’s support, and what better way than to arouse public solidarity through music. For this reason, from Unison we support the initiative ‘For Ukraine’, a charity music compilation album of Ukrainian artists, musicians and creatives whose aim is to raise funds for Ukrainian humanitarian organisations. 100% of the profits generated by this project…
We are part of the inaugural members of “Verifi Rights Data Alliance” initiative of Verifi Media, a global leader in modern media rights data management services. This alliance will streamline the exchange of information for music catalogues throughout the digital value chain, allowing each entity to maintain its own data source. In addition, Warner Music…