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Sacem and Socan sign transatlantic agreement

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.

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Transfer of value explained

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.

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