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…
Once again, new season comes full of networking events we did not want to miss. We have inaugurated the year with the following meetings: MIDEM and Rio Music Market, and there are many more to come. Here are the events in which our team is part of the program and many others in which we…
January has passed in a blink of an eye. A month of review of last year’s achievements and getting the engines tuned and prepared for the year ahead. When looking back at 2022, we could not be more proud of Unison’s achievements and developments. We have continued to grow and to deliver value to our…
On 27 December 2022, the Council of Ministers approved the Bill for the creation of the Copyright and Related Rights Office. This office, created in the image and likeness of the institutional architecture of other neighbouring countries -such as France or Portugal- is one of the measures included in Spain’s Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan…
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…
This new season comes full of networking events we did not want to miss. Some of them are already familiar from previous years such as FMF Barcelona and BIME, while others are brand new and we approach them with great enthusiasm to continue creating professional relationships in the musical universe. From September 26th until the…
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),…
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,…
Music rights are the new gold rush and investors in the sector need sophisticated, state of the art systems and business driven corporate management to optimize, process, track, monetize and distribute revenue effectively. This is what we at Unison offer. Many legacy organizations with their outdated systems are woefully inadequate and unprepared to adapt to…