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CWR for UBC / Abramus
UBC / Abramus administers performance and mechanical rights in Brazil. Brazil's two leading rights associations.
History
UBC was founded in 1942 and Abramus in 1982; both operate under ECAD, the central collection bureau created by Brazilian law in 1973, which collects performance royalties nationally on behalf of its member associations — a structure unique to Brazil.
CWR at UBC / Abramus
Registration happens at the association level, and foreign catalogs enter through Brazilian representation built from the publisher's CWR. The associations work CWR-era data through CISAC's networks even though ECAD itself is a collection body, not a registration destination.
Like nearly every CISAC society, UBC / Abramus works in the CWR 2.1 / 2.2 era — the versions in production use worldwide since the standard displaced the proprietary registration formats of the 1990s. Per-society delivery profiles do change, so confirm the current version and any local quirks before a first delivery.
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Two free checks for your CWR file. Is the file correct? Every record, share and control total against the spec, each problem on its exact line. Do its writers match their registrations? Every writer cross-checked against public registration data, including works registered under another spelling or IPI. Nothing stored: check a file at cwrcheck.com.