The European Digital Music Revolution

• For more than 60 Years rights of authors have been are collected by private organizations with a state protected monopoly. (Sacem, Sagem, Sabam, Biem Stemra…)
• Different rights are collected on our behalf: Mechanical rights, Neighbouring rights, Airplay and Levies, amounting to billions of Euros collected every year.
• Most of these rights are collected "universally" so the link between author and money is severed, resulting in huge amounts of non accountable money left in the hands of collecting societies.
• New technologies that could aid this problem are banished, so artists can't claim what is theirs.
• In search for of new business models, the whole industry is tending towards the universal generical collection of all rights (free music for ads), without ever consulting the artists.

The Younison website is an advocacy platform and a networking tool for artists and professionals in the music industry, that stands for the following principles:

1. All collecting societies should be obliged by European law to:

• Justify the collection and distribution of copyright levies to the author
• Apply strict European transparency standards to levies and all forms of generic money collection and distribution
• Remit quarterly copyright and "online mechanical" levy payments to the creators in each country

2. All creators should be fairly compensated for private copying.

3. New business models need a technological guarantee to redistribute earnings fairly.

If you agree with these basic principles and want to make your voice to be heard by to the level of the policy makers, join Younison today, and take your future into your own hands.