Sacem
Innovation
Sustained investments in digital projects, partnerships and cooperation to develop products and solutions. This concern is at the core of our commitment to members to create value.
A LONG INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGICAL HISTORY
which has been accelerating in recent years…
2004
iTunes contract
(download)
First distribution of
royalties
for online use
2008
Spotify contract
(paneuropean)
DEAL partnership between Sacem and UMPI (Universal Music Publishing Int'l)
Amazon contract
(download- paneuropean)
2012
Deezer contract
(paneuropean)
2014
Netflix contract
Wixen Music partnership
2016
SoundCloud contract
SOCAN/SACEM: first transatlantic partnership guaranteeing representation for Canadian creators in Europe
1999
First contract with an online music service: FranceMP3.com
2007
Deezer contract (France)
2009
iTunes contract
(paneuropean)
2010
Youtube contract (France)
2011
Itunes contract
(cloud)
2013
SACEM/UMPI/YouTube agreement
covering 127 countries
ARMONIA, cofounded by
SACEM:
first European portal for online music services
2015
Apple Music contract
(paneuropean)
Amazon Prime contract
(paneuropean)
2017
SACEM/IBM alliance to
develop URights:
to protect the value of music online
for creators and publishers
Blockchain project:
ASCAP/PRS
for Music/SACEM partnership
IRCAM/SACEM
partnership:
automatic recognition of musical works.
LICENSING
Precursors open to the World
SACEM signs multi-territorial licensing agreements with all digital players to capture the value of its members’ rights. Our strategy relies on perfect knowledge of the environment, our partnerships and the strength of our repertoire, the second largest in the world after the Anglo-American repertoire. SACEM’s main mission is to defend its members’ rights and enhance their repertoire to obtain fair remuneration in our digital world.
Signing contracts with the launch of each new service illustrates the effectiveness of collective management of authors’ rights in the Digital Age.
150 contracts signed with online services, including 33 with international players.
Multi-territorial licences in over 120 countries.
983 billion downloads and streams processed by SACEM IT, representing 2.7 billion actions a day.
URIGHTS
IBM and SACEM formed a 10-year strategic alliance to develop URights, a new platform hosted in the IBM Cloud
Aiming to protect the value of
music online for creators and publishers,
URights makes it
possible to manage the exponential volume of exchanges of data
for music online and improve the identification of rights linked
to exploitation of works online.
It brings added value to creators
and publishers
by optimising the analysis of
data and recognition of their creations to guarantee fairer
remuneration.
BLOCKCHAIN PROJECT
An essential step with the promise of development and deployment of blockchain solutions in the music industry.
Technical staff from SACEM, ASCAP (American authors’ society) and PRS for Music (British authors’ society) work closely with IBM to exploit open-source blockchain technology Linux Foundation, Hyperledger Fabric.
This solution has great potential to improve data matching and optimise the identification of creators and publishers of the works, reduce the risk of errors, cut costs and eventually accelerate licensing.
The aim of this project is to perfect a prototype to enable societies to create and rely on a shared decentralised base of metadata of musical works with real-time monitoring and updating capacity.
INNOVATORS, START-UPS, SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES
SACEM offers partnerships to develop innovative solutions in the service of creators, publishers and their works.