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…
Last Tuesday, February 1, the Verifi Rights Data Alliance (VRDA) was announced, the project led by Verify Media for the creation of a data exchange system for music rights ownership between different agents in the digital value chain. The alliance’s inaugural members are a rights holder (Warner Music Group), an independent copyright management operator (UNISON),…
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…
69,346,250 US$. This is the price for which the work “EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS” by the artist Beeple was sold. Beyond the enormous sum of money, what is the peculiarity of this sale? 1) it is a JPG, that is to say, it is a digital work; 2) it is the third most expensive…
Beginning operations in the most difficult year of the last decades on a global level has not been easy. But no one said that creating an alternative to collective management models for music royalties was easy either. Despite the monumental challenges, during our first 12 months we have grown to manage rights in more than…
I would like to start this short text with a “there’s much left to do”, because even nowadays, in the 21st century, we still suffer small and not so small acts of discrimination for the fact of being a woman. The music industry is no different. A market dominated by men where it seems that,…
Festival and conference season is upon us and Unison didn’t want to miss the opportunity to also attend Primavera Pro this year, celebrating its tenth edition. The event, as always, will take place in different venues in Barcelona between May 29th and 31st, gathering its Day Pro conferences at the CCCB, and will be a unique chance to network…