By Emmanuel LegrandThe Board of Directors of French rights society SACEM has elected French composer Patrick Sigwalt (pictured, below) as Chairman at the general assembly of...
Gadi Oron, Director General of the International Confederation of societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) outlined a few of the "winds of change" that shape the...
Canadian rights society SOCAN has announced significant management changes with the appointment of Jean-Christian Céré as Chief Membership Officer, and Vanessa Thomas as Vice-President, Member &...
PRS for Music Chair of the board Nigel Elderton and CEO Andrea C Martin both reflected on the "unprecedented" year that the British right society and...
By Emmanuel LegrandBritish rights society PRS for Music distributed a record ?699.4 million (EUR803.94m) in music royalties in 2020, up 2% year-on-year, but collections dropped 19.7%...
By Emmanuel LegrandThe re-admission of SGAE among the global organisation of rights societies closes a dark and stormy period for the Spanish society and puts a...
By Emmanuel LegrandThe impact of the coronavirus pandemic will be felt thought 2021 and beyond by creators who rely on the collective management system to receive...
By Emmanuel Legrand Bj?rn Ulvaeus (Credit: TT News Agency) ABBA's Bj?rn Ulvaeus has been appointed President of CISAC, the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and...
By Emmanuel Legrand SGAE's Antonio Onetti SGAE has had more Presidents in the last decade than Italy had Prime Ministers during the same period of time...
By Emmanuel Legrand The SGAE saga has now more episodes and twists than a Latin American telenovela. The latest development has seen the board of directors...