By Emmanuel Legrand European neighbouring rights societies were pondering their response to SoundExchange's latest campaign asking for "national treatment" for US performers and labels in the...
By Emmanuel Legrand VUT, the German Association of Independent Music Entrepreneurs, has become the fourth shareholder of GVL, the Berlin-based neighbouring rights society for Germany, alongside...
By Emmanuel Legrand A coalition of US organisations representing labels and performers, led by Washington, DC-based neighbouring rights society SoundExchange, has launched the "Fair Trade of...
By Emmanuel Legrand SACEM chief executive Jean-No?l Tronc has been elected President of GESAC, the European groupment of societies of authors, during the organisation's annual General...
By Emmanuel Legrand French rights society SACEM is anticipating a 25% drop in collections in 2020, according to CEO Jean-No?l Tronc (pictured, below), speaking after the...
By Emmanuel Legrand The coronavirius pandemic will "impact royalty collections in 2020 and into 2021, and -- I would not be surprised -- into 2022." This...
By Emmanuel Legrand Swiss music rights society SUISA has reported collections of CHF 176.3 million (EUR164.2m) in 2019, up 9.6% over 2018, and distributed CHF135m to...
By Emmanuel Legrand SGAE's hopes to be reinstated as a full member of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers will have to wait....
British neighbouring rights society PPL collected a total of ?271.8 million (EUR305m) on behalf of its performers and recording rights holders members, up 10% on 2018's...
By Emmanuel Legrand GEMA's Harald Heker (Credit: Jonathan Linder) German rights society GEMA collected EUR1.069 billion on behalf of its members (authors, composers and music publishers)...
