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.
- With this single contract, you pay the 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
- 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). for works in the context of the production of a record.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
- Fill in our online licence request form . For your first request, you must create an OPO (work by work) producer account (free). You must fill in the list of works you wish to reproduce.
As soon as you have registered your licence request and validated the general conditions, you will receive a request number. - SDRM checks that the works belong to the repertoires it represents and will send you an estimate for the licence to your online account with the amount of royalties you will have to pay.
- Pay royalties to SDRM:
- by credit card from your online OPO producer account ;
- by bank transfer, using SDRM IBAN available on the online help ;
- by cheque, payable to SDRM, to be sent by post to: SDRM (OPO) 225, avenue Charles de Gaulle 92528 Neuilly-sur-Seine cedex ; specifying the licence request number(s) on the back of the cheque ;
NOTE : If you pay by cheque, your request will only be processed three weeks after it has been paid in.
Helpful
Consult the instructions to fill in your licence request in the key documents.
Other licences may be necessary, depending on the type of music you want to use (pre-existing music, commissioned music, etc).