Europe’s music royalties societies must now allow artists to sign up to a society of their choice and make multi-country licenses available to the likes of Amazon and Apple after a court backed an EU veto on national monopolies. On Friday Europe’s General Court, its second highest, upheld a 2008 ruling by the European Commission. [...]

On March 27th  the EU parliament hosted the IP Forum concerning the impact the Collective Rights Management Directive will have on the Intellectual Property e,environment. Hosted by MEP Marielle Gallo and MEP Engstrom, it was an opportunity for the MEP’s and other interested parties to acknowledge the views from different stakeholders in the field. Most [...]

“We are teaming up with Younison to form a European network to ensure the voice of the artist is heard at the highest echelons of EU power. Together we are going to fight for artists’ rights.” Nick Mason, Pink Floyd drummer and Co-Chairman of the Featured Artist Coalition   

Younison was present at MEP Gallo’s CRM directive hearing for the JURI committee, where all key stakeholders were heard on the subjects of collective management and multi territorial licensing. Below a short memo on what we said and how we perceive the situation as it stands now. 1. The big continental CMOS (GEMA, SACEM, SGAE, [...]

“The European Union seems (seems!) to produce plenty of initiatives and ideas in the area of copyright in the digital world. Recently, an impressive team consisting of 3 European commissioners (Barnier, Kroes and Vassiliou) set out the actions to ensure that copyright framework stays fit for purpose in the digital environment. A communication adopted on [...]

The Deutsches Bundestag decided yesterday that it will not take action against GEMA despite an online petition that received more than 60,000 signatures. According to BLN.FM, German Secretary of State Max Stadler sidestepped the issue by suggesting that supporters of the petition form a compromise with GEMA directly. The petition, which began circulating in August, [...]

We have been on and on about why the CRM directive is the first and most important milestone for authors of the EU to ensure that the way our money is collected and redistributed is done in a way that suits the demands of modern creators rather than protecting the opaque ways currently upheld and [...]

Dear fellow artist, For more than two year now we have been led to believe that the proposed EU directive on Collective Rights Management(CRM) would once and for all make work of the archaic and opaque working of most of our EU collecting societies, rendering them into a fast modern , transparent and flexible service [...]

A roundup of last weeks press coverage following the adoption of the CRM directive and the statements made by Younison and its partners : Thanks for all the cooperation! Its impressive what a handful of people with a just cause can do! EU Press 1. Brussels proposes changes to EU copyright law (Euractiv) 2. EU drafts [...]

Younison met with Maria Martin- Pratt, Head of Unit for Copyright at the European Commission and who is leading the drafting of the Directive for Collective Rights Management. Younison presented and discussed it’s Call for Action as well as its key asks in the proposal. Key takeaways of the meeting included; § Younison has been [...]