SACEM repertoire includes the world’s broadest selection of music.
- The works you use were created by authors and composers and are protected by law.
- You must get a licence from SACEM to use them.
- SACEM collects royalties and distributes them to creators and publishers, to remunerate their work. Paying royalties entitles you to use these works in full respect of copyright/authors’ rights.
Tariffs
1- Podcasts broadcasted by radio stations
The Agreements concluded between the Authors’ Societies (Sacem, SCAM and SACD) and the national radios cover, in part, the broadcasting of catch-up podcasts (replay of programs). Likewise, their broadcasting on local radio stations is also covered in the licenses (resulting of deal memos agreed with Cnra, Sirti and Snrl).
2- Podcasts broadcasted by internet radios, aggregators and podcast platforms
Concerning podcasts which are broadcasted by internet radio stations, aggregators or podcast platforms, Sacem has set up tariffs that take into consideration the duration of the Sacem Repertoire broadcasted but as well the commercial scheme and the type of entity that broadcast the podcast (association, private individual, business…)
Licensing conditions
- Your licence is granted for reproduction rights
Reproduction rights :
consists of the physical fixing of a work on support that allows its communication to a public audience (CD, CD Rom, vinyl, multimedia support) and performing rightsPerforming rights :
for communication of an author’s work to a public audience through music diffusion on public areas (shops, cinema, night club, music concert, etc…) and trough medias (radio, TV show, Internet, etc). for streaming on demand and/or downloading on demand of podcasts.
This licence does not concern, in particular, moral rights Moral rights :
moral rights, which grant authors the right for their name, position and work be respected. They are perpetual, inalienable and imprescriptible., subsidiary rights, such as arrangement, adaptation and translation rights Adaptation and translation rights :
A license must be obtained from rights holders before undertaking any arrangement, adaptation or translation, ie, or any other change in the original work (new version, remix, etc…)., etc. Nor does it concern neighbouring rights Neighboring rights :
Right recognized by the French Intellectual Property Code (Book II) relative to performing artists, producers of phonograms and videograms. .
- You must be of legal age or the legal representative of a minor or a person under guardianship or curatorship.
- To get a licence to use podcasts for a small internet radio, please click here.
- To get a licence to use podcasts for a local radio station, please click here.
- To get a licence to use podcasts for a national radio station, please click here.
Getting a licence
- Describe your project by filling in our online form
- A SACEM consultant will contact you to finalize your licence request.
Helpful
- If you use commercial recordings (singles, albums, including those which are self-produced), you must also apply for a licence from the producers of such recordings. For answers to your questions, you can contact:
La SCPP (Société Civile des Producteurs Phonographiques)
La SPPF (Société civile des producteurs de phonogrammes en France)
- The works you intend to offer in the context of your podcasts service may also belong to the repertoires of the following authors’ societies:
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 : SACD repertoireSCAM
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 : SCAM repertoire
We invite you to contact to be informed of their licensing conditions.