Revenue from performing rights in Brazil is carried out through the Central Office of Collection and Distribution, ECAD, which registered a drop of approximately 15.8% compared to 2014, totaling R$ 1.03 billion in 2015.
This decrease is due to a distortion caused by the closing of a number of important settlements with TV Globo, Net and Sky during 2013 and 2014. Because of this, the only line items that did show any drop were from Free to air TV and Pay TV. The other items showed an increase, with the internet presenting the largest rate of growth, at 53.8%. However, the internet represented only 0.67% of the total amount collected by ECAD.
The collection of revenues generated by public performance of music and recordings domestically is carried out by the Central Office of Collections, ECAD. The amount collected in Brasil referring to UBC's public performance repertoire during 2015 reached a total of R$ 409.5 million.
Collection from public performance rights for UBC members abroad, which is carried out by societies that represent us outside of Brazil, showed a considerable increase in 2015. A total of R$ 3.8 million in revenues was collected, which represents an increase of 26%. However, this growth was not absolute, as it was influenced by the devaluation of the Brazilian Real against foreign currencies over the year.
UBC collected domestically a total of R$ 451 thousand from users such as Apple, iMúsica, Globo, Sony, Universal, and others.
With regards to the use of works represented by UBC in phono-mechanics, a total of R$ 125.3 thousand was collected from abroad.
UBC collected a total of R$ 413.8 million, which represents, just as has been shown by the total collected domestically by ECAD, a drop of 15.8% compared to the total collected by UBC in 2014, which was R$ 491.6 million. Of this total, 98.94%, or R$ 409.5 million, refer to public performance of musical works and recordings throughout the national territory. 0.92% (R$ 3.8 million) comes from public performance of musical works and recordings abroad. 0.11% (R$ 451 thousand) comes from national mechanical or digital rights, and 0.03% (R$ 125 thousand) are from mechanical or digital rights collected abroad.
