This licence concerns several repertoires. SACEM and SDRM simplify the procedure with a single contract.
- The works you use were created by authors and composers and are protected by law.
- You must get licences from authors’ societies to use them.
- SACEM
SACEM (Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music) repertoire
- musical works with or without lyrics
- dubbing and subtitles for drama
- musical documentary works only
- poems and sketches
- excerpts from dramatic and musico-dramatic works lasting less than 20 minutes for television
- realization of audiovisual works from the SACEM repertoire (humorous clips and videos)
- humorous or entertaining audiovisual works, SCAMSCAM (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, ADAGPADAGP (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 and SDRMSDRM:Society for the Management of the Mechanical Reproduction Rights of authors, composers, publishers, directors, dubbing and subtitles authors. offer you a single contract to license all the works in their repertoires. - With this single contract, you pay royalties which are then distributed among the creators and publishers, to remunerate their work. Paying royalties entitles you to use these works in full respect of copyright/authors’ rights.
Tariffs
Licensing conditions
The licence contract may, depending on the audiovisual works exploited, cover the repertoires of SACEM, SCAM (Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédia) and ADAGP (Société des Auteurs dans les Arts Graphiques et Plastiques).
- Your licence is granted for reproduction rights
Reproduction rights: for recording works on media for the purpose of communicating them to audiences (CD, CD Rom, LP, multimedia, etc). and performing rights Performing rights: for communication of a work to audiences, in particular by playing music in public places (shops, cinemas, discotheques, concerts, etc) and through media (radio, television, Internet, etc)..
This licence does not concern, in particular, moral rights Moral rights: moral rights, which grant authors the right for their name, position and work to be respected, are permanent, inalienable and imprescriptible., subsidiary rights, such as arrangement, adaptation and translation rights Adaptation, arrangement and translation rights: a licence must be obtained from rights holders before undertaking any arrangement, adaptation or translation, i.e., any change in the original work (new version, remix, etc)., etc. Nor does it concern neighbouring rights Neighbouring rights: rights recognized by the French Intellectual Property Code (Book II), for performers and phonogram and videogram producers, in particular..
- You must be of legal age or the legal representative of a minor or a person under guardianship or curatorship.
Getting a licence
- Describe your project by filling in our online form.
- A SACEM consultant will contact you to finalize your licence request.
Remember
The audiovisual works you wish to make available in the context of your video on demand service may also belong to SACD repertoire. We suggest you contact them to know their licensing conditions.
Go to the site of SACD (Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques)
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..