Universal Music Group NV
Budget
€200 — €0
EP Access
1
accredited persons
Staff
6
1.5 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
UMG is a recorded music business and music publisher that discovers and develops music creators, recording artists and markets and promotes their music across a wide array of formats and platforms. UMG engages on policies that impact copyright law, specifically, as well as the entertainment industry more generally.
EU Legislative Interests
The EU AI Act Implementation of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market The Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act Copyright enforcement
Communication Activities
Zie IFPI
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
Outside of the US, UMG belongs to recorded music trade associations and works with them on an international (via The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (“IFPI”)) and national, via the local trade association in each specific country, such as the British Phonographic Industry in the UK, basis. In addition, UMG is a member of producer collecting societies engaged in collective rights management, such as Phonographic Performance Limited, or PPL, in the UK and the SCPP in France. UMG also works with analogous trade associations, e.g. International Confederation of Music Publishers, International Music Publishers Association and various European national associations (such as the Music Publishers Association in the UK) as well as collecting societies, e.g. PRS for Music in the UK, in relation to music publishing. In the US, the primary trade associations we belong to are: * Recording Industry Association of America; * National Music Publishers Association; * Sound Exchange.
Organisation Members
IFPI ICMP
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.