SUTEM, the main French copyright management organization, presented on Tuesday, May 13, the amounts collected in 2024 worldwide rose 8% for a year, mainly drawn by digital, but deplored an still insufficient transmission value to “properly support” its members.
Last year, the Sasem raised 1.6 billion euros, which includes more than 40% of digital income (transmission, social networks), its first collection position.
“Free is still very strong”
Despite these results, “today, the digital in France has not reached at all the penetration rate that has, for example, in Germany or England, and I am not even talking to you about the United States. (…). We arrive very late” in subscriptions, said journalists Cécile Rap-Veber, general director of the Society of Authors, Comples and Music Publications (SUTEM).
The Slem has repeated its attachment to tend towards a more equitable remuneration of artists on musical listening platforms, a theme that agitates the sector. “Unfortunately, the value of the transmission is not yet the one we hope to support our members correctly,” said Cécile Rap-Veber. The Slem signed in this regard, in January, an agreement with the French platform Deezer to better compensate the creators of a musical work.
For his part, Spotify leader said in early May that he had paid the record sum of around “300 million euros in French artists” in 2024, an 18% increase compared to 2023.
Alem also emphasized that his desire to expand “to conquer other territories, other directories” outside France, had borne fruit. International revenues reached 98 million euros in 2024 and new mandates with foreign editors were signed.
The private organization now collects copyright directly in more than 180 territories. Thanks to this strategy, its members saw “their income as a whole growing by 12%,” he said.
Source: BFM TV
