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…
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. …
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…
After almost two months in which the majority of the industry (and outsiders) spend their time talking about NFTs, and everyone got an (more or less) expert opinion on how and why we could all pack our things and let this automated reality replace the tireless work of all of us, professionals in the sector,…
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…
We echo the report just published by Synchtank, which offers valuable and illustrative information that we believe may help to decipher some clues about the future of rights management. We have seen on countless occasions (social networks, presentations, press, etc.) the graphs of the Goldman Sachs forecasts on the spectacular growth predicted for the volume…