French authors’ society and GESAC member Sacem signed an unprecedented transatlantic deal last week with Canadian authors’ society SOCAN. With this agreement, Sacem is now mandated to represent SOCAN’s more than 135,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers for administering and collecting towards multi-territorial digital service providers (DSPs) in Europe.
MEPs advocate for copyright liability of online platforms in order to remove distortions in the digital market and to provide better conditions for creators and consumers.
Yesterday, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. GESAC’s very existence is based on the ideals of this Union: one that unites Europeans in their cultural diversity.
The brochure “Use of cultural content online: from transfer of value to a fair ecosystem” aims to explain in simple terms what transfer of value is, how it affects creators, and what can be done about it.