SACEM and SOCAN Sign an Unprecedented Transatlantic Agreement

SACEM and SOCAN Sign an Unprecedented Transatlantic Agreement

LONDON, June 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --




- SACEM receives international mandate from music rights organization, SOCAN, to
manage rights in Europe
- SACEM will be representing the European licensing and processing sales of a North
American music rights organization
- SOCAN is the first North American MRO to mandate a European collective society


Sacem, the French authors' rights society, and SOCAN, the Society of Composers Authors
& Music Publishers of Canada, announce today the signature of an agreement entrusting
Sacem to administer and collect towards multi territorial DSPs in Europe the performing
rights of the more than 135,000 member creators and music publishers of the Canadian
Society.



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The deal is a first, as Sacem will be the first society in Europe assigned to
represent the digital rights of a North American music rights organization in pan-European
licences, adding to the scale of the repertoire Sacem already represents with its 157,000
creators and publishers or through pre-existing mandates such as UMPI or Wixen Publishing.
This agreement will have immediate benefits for SOCAN members as it will provide one
unique point of collection and therefore transparency, velocity and efficiency in the
management of their rights.



Sacem is a founder member of Armonia, the first European online music licensing hub,
and the SOCAN/Sacem mandate will be handled through the Armonia platform. In that
framework, SOCAN will join the Armonia community and directly benefit from the simplicity
to negotiate with one voice with digital service providers and the processing services
which provide automated data cleansing and enrichment, leading to more accurate
identification of works and BI tools.



Jean-Noel Tronc, CEO of Sacem, comments: "We are very happy with SOCAN's decision,
which illustrates our commitment to improve efficiency in the digital environment for fair
and transparent online revenues to songwriters, composers and music publishers. The
Sacem/SOCAN agreement will enhance the Armonia community, for the first time extending
beyond Europe."



Eric Baptiste, CEO of SOCAN, comments: "This agreement means that SOCAN's more than
135,000 members will benefit greatly from further improved tracking of royalties in the
burgeoning European music market. Thanks to this partnership, we look forward to bringing
even better returns for Canada's songwriters, composers and music publishers, allowing us
to participate even more deeply in the emerging global marketplace."



About Sacem 



http://www.sacem.fr/en  



The Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (Sacem) aims to represent
and defend its members' interests in view of promoting musical creation in all its
forms.Its key mission is to collect royalties and distribute them to authors, composers
and publishers whose works are disseminated or reproduced.
In 2015, Sacem distributed royalties to 293,000 authors, composers and publishers
worldwide for more than 2 million works.



About SOCAN 



http://www.socan.ca



SOCAN [http://www.socan.ca ] is a member-based organization that represents the
Canadian performing rights of more than four-million Canadian and international music
creators and publishers




 
Contacts 
SACEM 
Sandra Valerii 
Mob : +337-84-37-65-75 
sandra.valerii@sacem.fr 
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Anna Younger 
Instinctif Partners 
Tel : +44(0)207-457-2020 
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SOCAN 
Andrew Berthoff 
+1-416-442-3836 
berthoffa@socan.ca   


 





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