An interview with Olivier Le Covec, Director of SACEM's Documentation and Distribution Division
What is the solution proposed by DJ Monitor?
Dj Monitor is one of the market leaders in the identification of electronic music. It has a database of over 46 million titles and uses audio fingerprint technology to identify titles and songs. To track these, DJ Monitor combines high quality recording equipment with advanced and constantly evolving algorithms. The technology makes it possible to improve the accuracy of the identification of the titles played live in clubs and at concerts, even when the music is remixed or sampled.
Is this is an important advance?
Very important, yes. For DJs and organisers, who no longer need to submit a playlist. But also for SACEM, because it makes it easier to distribute the rights, and enables them to manage files as comprehensively as possible, prepared by a professional. DJs, apart from no longer having to fill out boring forms, will also benefit from a complete and detailed rights distribution. But DJs, or their publishers, must register their work with SACEM, or whichever rights collection society to which they belong. It is impossible to identify an unregistered work.
What exactly is Electronic Music Factory?
Electronic Music Factory is the first site with resources dedicated to electronic music. It was designed as a response to the isolation felt by some in the genre. Electronic Music Factory centralizes all the information that an electronic music professionals may need, in a single point of access, listing by role (artist, label, booker, publisher or organizer) and their needs (training, getting help, equipping oneself, insuring oneself, managing one's rights, etc.). Forty practical information sheets have already been published. The aim is unification: to centralize all the useful information available. To achieve this, Electronic Music Factory has partnered with Technopol, Irma, the Export Office.... other partnerships, especially internationally, are currently under discussion.
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Published January 17 2018