Who are we ?
As the world leader in the collective management of authors' rights,
Sacem is the house of authors, composers and publishers in all their diversity.
Sacem in a nutshell
Sacem is constantly adding value to creation. It is committed to maximizing revenues for creators and publishers,
while guaranteeing them a high level of service and support at every stage of their professional lives.
240,000 members
Authors, composers, music publishers,
dubbing and subtitling authors, writer-directors – in all artistic genres.
More than 50 international partners
(majors, independent publishers, foreign authors' societies), have entrusted Sacem with multi-territorial mandates for the management of their authors' rights from digital uses.
Our missions
To collect and distribute
royalties for authors,
composers and
music publishers
To develop authors’ rights
and negotiate the best value
for the creation of works
To provide social protection,
cultural support and
high value-added services
OUR BUSINESS MODEL
Founded in 1851, Sacem is a private, non-profit society owned by its members, the authors, composers and publishers of music.
It acts in complete transparency and independence. In an increasingly complex environment, collective management represents the most effective solution for protecting and promoting creation.
Our governance
Sacem's Board of Directors is composed of authors, composers and music publishers, elected by their peers each year.
AT THE HEART OF THE DIGITAL WORLD
Resolutely turned toward the future, Sacem is a French technological champion recognized worldwide for its expertise in the precise processing of massive amounts of data.
Sacem anticipates changes in usage and negotiates agreements with all digital platforms and all the different ways works are exploited online.
Licensing
Sacem signs agreements with all the digital players, covering as many as 200 territories worldwide, for its members and for all those represented through the mandates entrusted to it. It was the first authors' society to sign agreements with TikTok, Netflix and even Facebook.
URights
Developed in partnership with IBM, URights is a unique platform for online rights management: from processing the data from digital service providers to calculating the distribution for its members and international publishers.
Sacem Lab
At the heart of a booming ecosystem, the Sacem Lab draws on creators, the MusicTech ecosystem and Sacem's own teams to co-create the collective management system of the future. Its missions: anticipate, experiment, and share in the effort to always create more value for creators and publishers.
OUR COMMITMENT
Social protection and solidarity
From the beginning, Sacem has had a social model that is unique in the world.
Today, it offers social protection programmes to support its members at every stage of their professional lives.
Support for projects
Sacem contributes to the vitality and influence of creation and the dissemination of works by providing support and a range of expertise to its members and other cultural actors in the execution of their projects, involving all repertoires, in France and internationally
Sacem supportsOUR NETWORK
LOCAL ROOTS
With its territorial network of more than 60 offices in metropolitan France and the overseas territories, Sacem maintains a relationship of trust and proximity with more than 452,000 people who bring artistic creation to life throughout France.
INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Sacem collects and distributes royalties for its members from 177 nationalities, but also for its international partners (more than 50 international publishers, 7 foreign authors’ societies and 2 RME) who have entrusted it with the management of their online royalties in more than 200 territories. In France, Sacem represents works and creators from 126 international sister societies.