QRS – An Independent Service Provider
When we founded QRS, we wanted to bring our combined expertise, relationships and knowledge to the rights management universe, mainly through our Insight consulting activity.
QRS Joined the Friends and Supporters of IMPF!
QRS is excited to have joined the Friends and Supporters of IMPF. QRS’s mission is to improve the flow of royalties to rightsholders, including music publishers.
MaMA Event Paris - 2024
Join Eric Baptiste, CEO of QwantumRights Solutions, as he moderates two panels at the upcoming MaMA event October 16 - 18, 2024 in Paris.
Music Ally Publishing Summit 2024 on October 10th
Eric Baptiste, QwantumRights Solutions CEO, will be moderating a panel discussion on the The Future of CMOs at the upcoming Music Ally Publishing Summit 2024 on October 10th in London.
Music Ally Publishing Summit 2024
QwantumRights Solutions Corp. (QRS) is proud to sponsor the upcoming one day Music Ally Publishing Summit 2024 on October 10th in London.
Understanding What Happens to Your Musical Work Data
I created a song. What happens next so I can get paid for its use?
Challenges with Data in the Music Ecosystem
In January, QwantumRights Solutions Corp. (QRS) sponsored a panel at the Music Ally Connect event in London. Together with colleagues from SACEM, Music Reports, and Warner Chappell, we exchanged views on “How can publishers use data more wisely?”.
QRS at Music Ally Connect 2024!
QwantumRights Solutions Corp. (QRS) is proud to sponsor and participate in the upcoming Music Ally Connect 2024 event on January 22nd -23rd in London.
CISAC Blockbuster 2023 Global Collections Report
CISAC, the world federation of author and publisher collective management organizations, released a blockbuster 2023 Global Collections Report on October 26.
Stalemate Between Online Giants and Canadian Government Over Bill C-18 Continues
There appears to be no resolution in sight in the battle between Meta, Google and the Canadian Government over the latter’s recent legislative attempt to protect the financial interests of Canadian online news providers.
Rights Management in the 21st Century
Creative works have been around for centuries, arguably millennia. Except for some pioneering countries, the modern recognition and management of creators’ rights is only 100 years old. It is less than a century ago in 1926 with the founding of CISAC (the world federation of organizations representing the rights of Creators in all genres and of music publishers (www.cisac.org)), that rights holders and their collectives truly recognized that the international circulation of creative works required a global framework that would enable all rights managers to work together across borders and oceans, with the purpose of accurately paying rightsholders for their creative works.
Aggressive New Rights Owners Take Control
Bruce Springsteen noted in his 2016 autobiography that he was one of the few artists who owned everything he ever created. “All my records are mine. All my songs are mine. It’s rare and it’s a good feeling”. Last year he cashed in a $500 million dollar cheque from Sony Music in exchange for his song recordings and publishing rights, which must have had the Boss feeling pretty good as well.
Copyright Collectives in Search of Strategy
The rights management business is undergoing radical changes that most copyright collectives are struggling to handle, either because they do not (yet) feel the local impact of those changes, they do not know what to do about them, or they have some ideas that they are not able to transform into a viable plan.
QRS Montage – A Better Way Forward
Contrary to the urban legend that collective management organizations (“CMOs”) are complacent and fighting the future, most of their boards and executive teams are committed to improvements and would like to find ways to do so while preserving their other strategic goals.
QwantumRights Solutions Corp. Launches Support Services for Collective Management Organizations, Publishers, and Other Rights Management Businesses
QwantumRights Solutions Corp. (QRS) announces its launch with an innovative three-pronged approach to better serve collective management organizations (CMOs), publishers, and other rights management businesses.