SACEM's repertoire includes the widest choice of music in the world
- The works you use were created by authors and composers and are protected by law.
- You must get licence from SACEM to use them.
- SACEM provides a contract under which you pay royalties which are then distributed among the creators and publishers it represents, to remunerate their work. Paying royalties entitles you to use these works in full respect of copyright/authors’ rights.
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Licensing conditions
The licence contract covers the repertoire of SACEM
- Your licence is granted for mechanical rights and performing rights .
This licence does not concern, in particular, moral rights, subsidiary rights, such as arrangement, adaptation and translation rights , etc. Nor does it concern neighbouring rights.
Getting a licence
- Describe your project by filling in our online form.
- A SACEM consultant will contact you to finalize your licence request.
Helpful
The audiovisual works you wish to make available in the context of your video on demand service may also belong to other author’s societies repertoire. We suggest you contact them to know their licensing conditions.
- SACD
SACD (Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers) repertoire
- dramatic theatrical, musico-dramatic, operatic, choreographic works, pantomimes, circus tours and versions of these same works for television
- sketches and one man shows from the SACD repertoire and broadcasts of live performances
- audiovisual, multimedia and radio works (TV films, series, serials, cartoons, animation, sketches, feature films and short films, docudrama)
- humorous audiovisual or radio works (including sketches or humorous sequences: parodies, impressions, hidden camera…)
- still images from the above-listed works
Go to the site of SACD (Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques) - SCAM SCAM (Society of Multimedia Authors) repertoire
- audiovisual documentary works (essays, studies, narratives, portraits, full-length and short news reports, creative videos, corporate films….)
- audiovisual current affairs programmes
- journalistic works
- translations, dubbing, subtitling of works relating to SCAM repertoire
- still images (photographs, drawings, illustrations)
- works for radio excluding theatrical adaptations and musical works
- literary or multimedia works
Go to the site of Scam (Société civile des auteurs multimédias) - ADAGP ADAGP (Society of Visual Artists and Authors) repertoire
Still or animated works relating to the visual arts, such as:
- visual and graphic works
- architectural works
- photographic works and drawings
- computer-generated images, holograms and digital illustrations
- works of video art
- literary works
Go to the site of the ADAGP (Société des auteurs dans les arts graphiques et plastiques)
You must also obtain prior consent from the audiovisual producers and distributors.
For answers to your questions, you can contact PROCIREP PROCIREP, (Société Civile des Producteurs de Cinéma et Télévision) is entrusted with defending and representing French producers in the area of copyright/authors’ rights and neighbouring rights..