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 ensuring that all personal details remain strictly confidential.
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
2018
Facebook contract
Impel partnership
Music Sales contract
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.
Amazon Unlimited contract
Warner Chappell contract
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.
200 contracts signed with online services, including 47 with international players.
Multi-territorial licences in over 170 countries.
2,108 billion downloads and streams processed by SACEM IT, representing 5.8 billion actions a day.
URIGHTS
In 2017, SACEM entered into a ten-year strategic alliance with IBM to develop and co-manage a global copyright management platform for managing authors’ rights for music online. The URights platform is designed to be available for use by other rights holders and collective management organisations.
URights is a business intelligence and processing tool for tracking online music usage. The tracking tool has been in use since April 2017, and makes it possible to track sales data for digital services in a big data environment - over 24 billion sales (from 2015 to 2018) are currently accessible.
The business intelligence tool will provide financial analysis of online transactions. The online music processing and operational management tools have been in operation since July 2018, with VOD and SVOD processing and tariff simulation currently under development.
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.