On Tuesday 2 November 2021, the Council of Ministers approved by Royal Decree-Law 24/2021 the transposition into Spanish law of a series of Directives, including Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (hereinafter “Directive 2019/790”) on which we will focus in this article, the transposition of this directive has…
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…
Investing in musical copyrights recently entered a new phase with several key deals in the last months. It is worth mentioning the purchase by Hipgnosis of Kobalt catalogue for USD 323m (November 2020), the purchase by Round Hill of several hits for USD 282m (February 2021) following its IPO, the more recently sale of Downtown’s…
Following our recent agreements with Smart Rights and SADIA, we are proud to announce a new one: CAPASSO, the leading South African mechanical copyrights collection agency. We both are happy with this milestone collaboration agreement, and it is aimed at improving African writers, composers and publishers digital income in Europe. The African musical heritage and…
The elephant has been standing in the middle of the room for too long, and now it’s being unveiled in the UK. DCMS is flagging out what everybody knew (but nobody cared): the split between publishing rights and recording/master rights of the percentages of revenues from digital music services is unbalanced. Strongly and unfairly unbalanced. …
We are happy to announce our new representation agreement with the Angolan Collective Management Entity (SADIA) for the collection of digital rights in Europe for the repertoire of more than 35,000 songs entrusted by Angolan authors, artists and publishers to SADIA. SADIA members will now be represented in their digital rights throughout the Pan-European territory…
Marisa Gandelman, lawyer specialized in Copyright, Teacher and Doctor in International Relations, began her professional life as a pianist and music teacher. She later graduated in Law, was a Professor at PUC-Rio in the Copyright course and provided assistance to authors and other professionals in the creative industries. She was Executive Director of the Brazilian…
We announce a new agreement at Unison, this time with the Brazilian company Smart Rights. The representation agreement for Europe digital collections will include digital rights management across Europe for over 40k high profile songs. This cooperation will allow Smart Rights customers to be covered throughout all Europe through a single point of contact, thanks…
Jordi Puy, CEO of Unison, was recently interviewed by Industria Musical, the leading platform for music business trends in the Spanish-speaking market. In it, Jordi talks about the first year of operation of Unison and how he sees the future of the sector in an ecosystem full of challenges and changes. He also mentions the…
The world of streaming related to gaming has evolved unstoppably since 2014. In 2020, with the pandemic, music usage on platforms such as TWITCH rose from 3% to 8%, exponentially increasing its importance. This acceleration of the process has been driven in part by COVID-19, but there are numerous precedents for the successful blending of…