DESCRIPTION
The Future is Global: Canadian Music + International Markets, with SACEM & SOCAN
Being a Canadian artist has a renewed international commercial appeal, thanks to the massive successes of artists such as The Weeknd, Drake, Jesse Reyez, Justin Beiber, Kaytranada...the list goes on. This session will take a look at trends in emerging markets across the world and resulting possibilities for Canadian music creators, while examining the international rights and royalties collections ecosystem.
Canadian creators represented by SOCAN benefit from agreements that SOCAN has secured with international collective management organizations around the world. SACEM is France’s Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music and has the largest rights and royalties collections repertoire in the world (including its agreement with SOCAN). SACEM collects and distributes royalties worldwide, playing a crucial economic role to preserve musical creation internationally.
SPEAKERS
Catharine Saxberg, Vice President - International Relations (SOCAN)
Caroline Champarnaud, Director Department of International Development (SACEM)
Akotchayé Okio, International Development Officer for Africa (SACEM)
Habib Achour, Head of International Development - Africa & Middle East (SACEM)
This session is suitable for songwriters, composers, artist managers and publishers who are interested in learning more about international markets, and international rights and royalties collection.
ABOUT SACEM:
SACEM (Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music) is a non-profit non-trading entity owned and managed by its members, according to the business model of a cooperative, and was founded in France in 1851. SACEM represents and defends 176,150 members (including Authors, composers, and publishers) in France and worldwide and plays a crucial economic role to preserve musical creation. SACEM’s repertoire is the largest in the world.
ABOUT SOCAN
As Canada’s largest rights management organization, SOCAN connects more than four million creators worldwide and more than a quarter-million businesses and individuals in Canada alone. More than 150,000 songwriters, composers, music publishers and visual artists are our direct members, and more than 100,000 organizations are licensed to play music across the country. SOCAN issues licenses for the performance and reproduction of music as well as for the reproduction of visual art.
SOCAN serves and champions music creators, music publishers, and visual artists. They advocate for them, and work to defend and protect their rights, so that they can be compensated for their hard work – the music we all love to listen to, and the artistic work that we appreciate, love and prosper from spiritually to economically. Through direct affiliations and reciprocal agreements, SOCAN also licenses the performance and reproduction of musical works and collect and distribute royalties in Canada and throughout the globe. SOCAN has reciprocal agreements with visual arts rights collectives around the world.
For Canadian content creators - a note about SOCAN x SACEM:
In 2016, SOCAN signed an agreement with SACEM, and became the first North American authors’ society to entrust a European collective management organization with a mandate to represent its songwriters, composers, screen composers, and music publishers in the European market. SACEM has announced the renewal of this agreement with SOCAN for the management of rights on internet services, and added that the deal would be extended to include the mechanical reproduction rights of SOCAN’s repertoire in Europe.
WEBINAR ACCESS
The event will take place via Zoom. We STRONGLY RECOMMEND you LOG IN to your Eventbrite account PRIOR TO THE SESSION to ensure you can find the event in your account and can access your Zoom link. You may be asked to download the Zoom software but will also be able to join via your browser, which may give slightly reduced functionality.
TICKETS
Registration is free. MMF Canada welcomes the attendance of non-members.
* Le webinaire se tiendra en anglais.