2012Activity Report SOCIETY OF AUTHORS, COMPOSERS AND MUSIC PUBLISHERS C ontents 04 Editorial 06 Panorama 10 Profile 28 Being assertive 30 Top success abroad – Figures for 2012 32 New horizons 34 Defending private copying and protecting creation Collections 36 1214 Bringing support Trends – Figures for 2012 16 Anticipating, inventing, adapting... 38 Cultural projects: 18 Prospects the winners with young creators 40 Sacem Action Fund: sponsoring all musical genres 41 A model for international cooperation 42 20Distribution 22 Trends – Figures for 2012 Managing 24 When the music is good... 44 Governance 26 Top successes in 2012 46 New management 27 S cem Grand Prix 48 Sacem: supervision and transparency SNEAU a HE C © MARC MARC © 2 > SACEM ACTIVITY REPORT 2012 >> > SACEM ACTIVITY REPORT 2012 >> 3 Editorial What other initiatives are being At the heart of music considered? As CEO of Sacem since June 2012, Jean-Noël Tronc reviews a year rich Services to authors, composers and pub- lishers are one of the priorities of our ac- in accomplishments. tion through a project dubbed “Sacem Sacem has the largest PLUS” which aims to simplify procedures Before describing this action plan, can for our members and enrich the services you tell us your first impression when membership base Sacem wishes to provide them. Services you discovered Sacem? linked to distribution will thus be simpli- My first impression, even before joining in Europe, the second fied and dematerialised and a new card was the Society, and which has been recon- launched to offer members access to a pro- firmed since, was that Sacem has many worldwide.” gramme of advantages. assets: the largest membership base in Eu- rope which ranks second worldwide Jean-Noël Tronc (145,000 members in 2012), the highest What would you propose in the future level of general rights per capita in the to improve a society and a system world, powerful accurate measurement whose performance levels are already tools for distribution (80% of distributions well recognised in the world? per programme), a central place in music Sacem is a very efficient society, but we are in France (56% spontaneous recognition facing a challenge to the very principles of and 92% assisted recognition according to copyright and authors’ rights. There is a a BVA survey in July 2012), and carries a ground swell which has arisen in the past strong institutional weight. It is also for us fifteen years worldwide and which affects to make the best of these assets to make France and Europe, too. The activities of Sacem the top European authors’ society in authors’ societies are increasingly subject the Digital Age. to regulations by the European authorities, as attested for example by the Directive on Collective Management in preparation in Brussels. Located at the heart of the music 2012 was a year of transition for Can you tell us about the main priorities ecosystem in France, our Society under- Sacem. How would you sum up this for Sacem’s different Departments? goes recurrent attacks against its missions first year as new CEO? In order to be as efficient as possible, it was and its organisation, kept up by a profound The year 2012 was characterised first by a first decided to create a Strategic Resources Is there a Sacem quality which must be ignorance of its functions and role in the change in governance. I took over manage- Department as well as an International Af- given special attention? service of creators and publishers. In an in- ment of the Society on 20 June 2012, fol- fairs Department and place the regional Transparency! Sacem is a society which creasingly competitive situation, Sacem lowing the General Assembly with the ex- network and its staff under the responsibil- undergoes many controls both internally must also strive to reinforce its effective- ecutive body (former “Directoire”) ity of General Management. A new strate- and externally. This is something that is ness to preserve and attract creators and becoming a Management Committee. gy was set up concerning IT issues to make very poorly known. It is our job to make it great repertoires, in full respect in the fun- My arrival with my new team led to strate- Sacem tools operational internationally, known. An Auditing and Internal Control damentals that give it its specificity. gic reflection in connection with the Board whether it be licensing (launch of Armonia Department was created to complete the of Directors and a new action plan for the with stabilised governance and operations) establishment of a Remunerations Society. or data processing. Support functions, for Committee validating the Management finances and human resources in particu- team’s salaries. My own remuneration is lar, have also been modified to improve public knowledge and can be consulted on cross-cutting and the efficiency of work in the sacem.fr website. project mode. T MILLO E T S I T P © JEAN-BA © 4 > SACEM ACTIVITY REPORT 2012 >> > SACEM ACTIVITY REPORT 2012 >> 5 Panorama February Ludovic Bource wins an Oscar Sacem member Ludovic Bource composed the score for the film The Artist. May Iomma January The role of music was An international Sacem Stage brought together three artists Signature of an agreement determinant in this historic from Reunion Island (JF Gang, Toguna and Christine Salem) with Creative Commons success story in which a having received aid from Sacem (self-production, stage First agreement signed by Creative French film was awarded production, career support). Commons with an authors’ society in the Oscar for Best Picture France for non-commercial broadcasts. for the very first time in Musicora It enables Sacem members to promote eighty-four years. Sacem organised two concerts for this Classical and their works in a non-commercial Contemporary Music event, as well as a round table with framework and combines the use of Les Jeunesses Musicales de France. non-commercial licences proposed by Creative Commons and Sacem collection La Musique fait son cinéma à Cannes and distribution methods. A partner of “Talents Cannes” present at the Cannes Soundtrack Pavilion, Sacem is committed year round to encouraging music for images. JF Gang. March Festival international du film d’Aubagne A venue for creation and meetings, this festival encourages fruitful exchanges between professionals and young A pril creators. Launch of the Musique Prim’ website June This educational tool born of the partnership between Signature of an agreement Election of the Board Scène Sacem Internationale, National Education and the with France Télévisions of Directors, appointment Francofolies de Montréal Tous Pour La Musique A single agreement replaces of the CEO Sacem and Les Francofolies de Association targets school and simplifies the various At extraordinary and ordinary Montréal have joined forced to teachers to offer access to agreements previously General Meetings, Sacem hold every year a Scène Sacem a hundred or so musical and applicable to each channel. members ratified the Board of Internationale. Thus, a line-up of audiovisual works to It adapts the remuneration of Directors’ proposal to change artists receiving career support illustrate music education Sacem rights holders to France the Society’s statutes to simplify (Vendeurs d’Enclumes and programmes. Télévisions’s funding structure organisation and operations. Yves Jamait in 2012) and covers the use of works The Directoire became a is presented to the Canadian Printemps de Bourges from Sacem repertoire whether General Management. The new professional industry. Sacem presented its live for broadcast on France Board of Directors, chaired performance indicators Télévisions channels and radio by Laurent Petitgirard, chose and an unpublished study SNEAU stations or for free digital uses. Jean-Noël Tronc to be the CEO. HE on Festivals in France. C – MARC MARC – T D I Jeanne Cherhal, Scène Sacem Création, Francofolies 2012. M H C SNEAU S T HE C © FLOREN © MARC © 6 > SACEM ACTIVITY REPORT 2012 >> > SACEM ACTIVITY REPORT 2012 >> 7 Panorama O ctober Launch of MonProjetMusique.fr A site dedicated to funding professional music projects for all structures, all kinds of music and over the entire territory. This initiative is carried by the music industry (authors’ June-July societies and professional organisations). Les Nuits de Fourvière Three artists having benefited from the career assistance programme were November scheduled to open the concert during France Musique-Sacem Prize for film the Festival (Vieux Farka Touré opening music for Yannick Noah, C2C opening Given out during a soiree at Le Trianon, for Metronomy and François & the Atlas this prize rewards film music. The winner Mountains opening for Camille). then received a commission from Radio-France which will premiere the following year in a performance by the Frànçois and the Atlas Mountains. Radio-France Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2012, the Polish composer Paweł Mykietyn was rewarded for the original September-October soundtrack of Jerzy Skolimowski’s film July Musica Essential Killing. Sacem supports this Contemporary Séries, Séries (Fontainebleau) Music Festival with, in particular in 2012, Desirous of granting a choice place programming on the theme of America for composers, Sacem is mobilised to and ensembles in Europe. Grands Prix Lescure Mission Proposals emphasise the importance of original Sacem Laurent Petitgirard, Chairman of the music and soundtracks for television Read more Board of Directors, and Jean-Noël Tronc, series. about this CEO, presented a set of proposals