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…
Among the beatlemaniacs there is a well-known legend about the song “Sexie Sadie”, composed by John Lennon in 1968 and included in the so-called “White Album”. The Beatles were in Rishikesh (India), on a spiritual retreat to practice transcendental meditation under the teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, along with other celebrities of the time such…
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…
I follow in the wake of the article written by my colleague David Serras in relation to the report “Economics of music streaming” prepared by the DCMS committee for the British Parliament. I would like to highlight some of the key points of the report from the point of view of competition law, due to…
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…
Following our recent agreements with Smart Rights, SADIA and CAPASSO, now we sign with Brazilian CMO SOCINPRO a collaboration agreement for Pan-European collection of digital rights on behalf of Brazilian writers and publishers. Thanks to this collaboration agreement, we will collect digital publishing rights, both mechanical and public performance, on behalf of SOCINPRO for all the…
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…