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, SACDSACD (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, 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 and dubbers-subtitlers.) – as well as sister societies abroad which have signed reciprocal agreements offer you a single contract to license all the works in their repertoires. - 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
- Authors’ remuneration is proportional to the broadcaster’s resources.
- The applicable base rate is 5%.
This rate covers, in general, the repertoires of:
- SACEM, SACD, SCAM, ADAGP and SDRM for SACEM mechanical reproduction rights.
- For the use works from the repertoires of authors’ societies for the forms of exploitation defined in your contract (e.g., broadcast by cable, satellite, ADSL or fibre, terrestrial airwaves...), you will be granted a blanket licence which does not depend on the number of works used. This entitles you to draw from the authors’ societies repertoires, on condition obviously of respecting the authors’ moral rights.
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). 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
Go to the site of SACD (Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques)
Go to the site of SCAM (Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédias)
Go to the site of ADAGP (Société des Auteurs dans les Arts Graphiques et Plastiques)