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…
In December we informed about our request to the Commercial Court nº3 of Barcelona to comply with the precautionary measures of December 20, 2019, which determined the anti-competitive nature of certain clause of SGAE. Now, the Spanish Competition Authorities (CNMC) has agreed to initiate, at the request of Unison Rights, a new antitrust proceeding against…
As a result of the latest modification of the SGAE management contract model, from Unison we requested the Commercial Court No. 3 of Barcelona to comply with the precautionary measures of December 20, 2019, which determined the anti-competitive nature of certain clauses. Specifically, we denounced that SGAE’s new management contract model imposed the exclusive management…
In Unison we are celebrating one further achievement: we now manage rights in an excess of 2 million musical works. Behind this milestone figure there are more than 300 clients that have trusted Unison for the management of their music publishing rights. In the last 18 months we have become a true digital rights licensing…