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
The author’s remuneration is equal to 3.75% of the service subscription price which cannot be lower than a minimum fee of:
- € 0.14 excl. VAT* per subscriber and per month for an offer allowing access to the service on a single screen simultaneously,
- €0.20 excl. VAT * per subscriber and per month for an offer allowing access to the service on two or more screens simultaneously.
* plus current levies and taxes (VAT and social contributions).
The 3.75% is reduced to 3% on the condition that the number of users of the service does not exceed 1.000.000 (one million) users.
It is specified that the above mentioned 3.75% and 3% rates can not apply to a service dedicated to music videos and video recording of concerts.
Licensing conditions
- Your licence is granted for reproduction rights
Reproduction rights: for incorporating a musical work into a content and for fixation of a work for the purpose of communicating them to audiences (CD, CD Rom, LP, multimedia, storage unit 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.
Helpful
The audiovisual works you wish to make available in the context of your video-on-demand service may also belong to 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
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)
We suggest you contact them to know their licensing conditions
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..