Romanian Phonogram Producers Union (UPFR) – Association for Neighboring Rights is the first non-profit professional association of music producers established in 1996 in order to defend and promote the professional, cultural and moral interests of its members based on their mandate to managing their neighboring rights and engaging in anti-piracy activities.
Romanian Phonogram Producers Union (UPFR) – Association for Neighboring Rights is the first non-profit professional association of music producers established in 1996 in order to defend and promote the professional, cultural and moral interests of its members based on their mandate to managing their neighboring rights and engaging in anti-piracy activities.
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If you use music in your business as an ambient element or as a main object of activity (disco, radio, tv, online, etc.), you will find here all the information that interests you.
Music adds value to the business in which it is used for environmental purposes (restaurant, hotel, supermarket, waiting rooms, etc.) or is even the main resource in radio and television, discos, shows.
UPFR is a collective management society designated by ORDA decisions to collect the remuneration due to music producers from the use of phonograms in public communication, in the activity of broadcasting phonograms.
Find out the answers to the most common questions.
If you use music in your business as an ambient element or as a main object of activity (disco, radio, tv, online, etc.), you will find here all the information that interests you.
Music adds value to the business in which it is used for environmental purposes (restaurant, hotel, supermarket, waiting rooms, etc.) or is even the main resource in radio and television, discos, shows.
UPFR is a collective management society designated by ORDA decisions to collect the remuneration due to music producers from the use of phonograms in public communication, in the activity of broadcasting phonograms.
Find out the answers to the most common questions.
The license to use music for public performance, issued by UPFR, is granted to legal entities and self-employed persons for each activity and working point in which they use music in public.
UPFR grants licenses for Public performance with a lucrative scope to legal persons and freelancers for each activity and work site in which music is used.
License for the use of cinematographic and other audiovisual works is granted by UPFR and given for legal entities and individuals authorized for each activity and workstation that use music in public. The license is not transferable. You can opt for a period of validity up to 1 year with possibility of extension.
Copying music is useful when you want to create pre-established playlists or storing recorded music or videos on different media (CD, DVD, Hard disk) in order to facilitate the friendly use of tracks in spaces where music is publicly played.
According to ORDA Decision no. 79/2014 starting with 31 July 2014, UPFR was appointed as been collecting society so it collects remuneration afferent to cable retransmission for the rights related to copyright, owned by recording companies.
According to the ORDA Decision no. 12/2012, the U.P.F.R is named the collector of the remuneration due to the producers of phonograms for their broadcasting by the broadcasting organizations.
According to the ORDA Decision no. 154/2012, the U.P.F.R is named the collector of the remuneration due to the producers of phonograms for the broadcasting by the television bodies of the phonograms.
According to the ORDA Decision no. 232/2011, the U.P.F.R is named the collector of the remuneration due to the phonogram producers for the public communication of the phonograms through online or mobile services.
The private copy is a compensatory remuneration established by Law No.8/ 1996 which must be paid by the economic agents that manufacture or introduce on the Romanian territory supports on which analog or digital sound or audiovisual recordings can be made; apparatus for making analogue or digital copies.
Find out the main benefits of UPFR members
Distribution of remuneration also collected from optionally managed sources such as dubbing.
You will be able to contribute to the decision-making process regarding the UPFR strategies, distribution criteria.
Complex detailed reporting and archiving of distribution reports on the cloud server (DROPBOX).
For the music producers that carry out their activity on the Romanian territory, UPFR is the collective management society where the repertoire can be declared. The declaration of the repertoire is an element that works for your benefit. You can declare your repertoire at UPFR if you are a member of the Union of Phonogram Producers in Romania, but also if you do not have this status.
Set up the accession file and fill in the necessary documents.
Give UPFR the mandate to manage the producer rights, by signing the mandate contract.
Prepare the repertoire statement according to the UPFR instructions.
For the music producers that carry out their activity on the Romanian territory, UPFR is the collective management society where the repertoire can be declared. The declaration of the repertoire is an element that works for your benefit. You can declare your repertoire at UPFR if you are a member of the Union of Phonogram Producers in Romania, but also if you do not have this status.
Set up the accession file and fill in the necessary documents.
Give UPFR the mandate to manage the producer rights, by signing the mandate contract.
Prepare the repertoire statement according to the UPFR instructions.
Find out the main benefits of UPFR members
Distribution of remuneration also collected from optionally managed sources such as dubbing.
You will be able to contribute to the decision-making process regarding the UPFR strategies, distribution criteria.
Complex detailed reporting and archiving of distribution reports on the cloud server (DROPBOX).
BMAT este companie de renume specializată în servicii de monitorizare a muzicii difuzate de posturile radio și TV (și nu numai, inclusiv alte servicii unde muzica este utilizată în domeniul ambiental), acoperind atât cataloage naționale, cât și internaționale.
Conform deciziei AGA nr. 9114/23.06 2021, incepand cu 01.07.2021, UPFR utilizeaza rapoartele de monitorizare BMAT in distributia remuneratiilor colectate. In acest caz este important ca repertoriul dumneavoastra sa fie amprentat in baza de date BMAT.
Pe de o parte, procesul de amprentare este unul gratuit ce presupune un efort minim din partea dumneavoastra, pe de alta parte de el depinde gradul de identificare al repertoriului dumneavoastra cat si banii distribuiti de UPFR, in perioada urmatoare, in baza acestui repertoriu.
Rapoartele de monitorizare pentru aceste canale vor fi incarcate in sistemul de distributie, iar datele din aceste rapoarte vor fi comparate cu baza de date Repertoriu din gestiunea UPFR.
Astfel, pentru a avea o identificare cat mai buna a fonogramelor, va rugam sa amprentati in baza de date BMAT fonogramele ale caror drepturi le detineti.
Pentru realizarea procesului de amprentare, BMAT ofera mai multe solutii, diferentiate in functie de categoriile si numarul de fonograme, solutii enumerate mai jos:
*Amprentarea prin FTP este recomandata pentru producatorii care detin cataloage mari si se poate efectua si prin intermediul UPFR (gratuit) sub conditia ca fiecare producator sa puna la dispozitia UPFR fisierele audio si fisierul excel completat cu metadatele corespunzatoare.
Vezi beneficiile utilizarii serviciilor platite Vericast BMAT (click aici).
Amprentarea se realizeaza in conturi distincte, in functie de tipul fonogramei amprentate (fonograma de comert sau fonograma publicata in scop comercial/librarie muzicala).
Daca detineti ambele tipuri de conturi, autentificati-va cu contul specific, in functie de tipul fonogramelor pe care doriti sa le amprentati.
In cazul in care nu mai cunoasteti datele de conectare va rugam sa ne contactati prin email.
Proceduri de amprentare prin Vericast Upload:
Pentru nelamuriri legate de procesul de amprentare va rugam sa ne contactati prin email la adresa mihai.lungu@upfr.ro sau telefonic la numarul 0731.000.432.
UPFR monitorizeaza principalele posturi Radio si TV din Romania. Lista posturilor monitorizate de UPFR poate fi consultata AICI!
Daca nu ai un cont de amprentare creat, te rugam sa soliciti crearea unui cont prin completarea formularului de mai jos:
In perioada 01.06.2023 – 05.06.2023, activitatea UPFR se va desfasura dupa urmatorul program:
Incepand de Marti, 6 iunie se revine la programul normal.
Va multumim!
