The new General Manager intends to strengthen international partnerships and muscle computer tools, as well as data management.
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Transition without surprise to the society of authors, composers and music publishers (SACEM). Following a “divergence of views on the strategy and governance with Jean-Noël Trror”, who has been running the SACEM since 2012, the Board of Directors has discarded it and promoted, Thursday, October 21, the director of the Development, international and operations, Cécile Rap-Veber, under Executive Director-Manager for a three-year term. This is the first woman named at the head of this authors company created in 1851.
In addition, David El Sayegh, Secretary General since 2013, becomes Deputy General Manager. Both insured the interim since a serious governance crisis that had reached its peak at the extraordinary board of directors on 7 September. This meeting, described as very violent by several participants, aimed at removing Mr. Trunk from his duties, but had finally could not end. Since then, the latter was “unavailable for personal motifs”.
These two appointments intervene in a context of fragilization of the world of musical creation because of the Pandemic of Covid-19 and, at the same time, strong mutations of the sector, with the banalization of streaming. The closure, for months, places of music dissemination, and cascade cancellation of concerts and festivals strongly degraded the results of SACEM.
aggiornamento technology
Thus, the collections dropped by 17%, to settle at 988.5 million euros in 2020. The rights distributions have also fallen by nearly 54 million euros, between 2019 and 2020. The SACEM closed the year 2020 deficit by 26.8 million euros, despite the establishment of a voluntary departure plan relating to 150 employees and will spread until 2023.
According to the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Patrick Sigwalt, the findings of the last financial audit do not provide for a return to equilibrium before 2025, “if no action is taken to invest heavily in the technology in order to do Facing the departure of the collaborators “. The Board of Directors gave a green light to the establishment of a “Strategy and Innovation Council”, in order to modernize tools, including IT, as well as the collection and analysis of the data. A technological aggornamento necessitated by the competition of new actors in the management of copyrights.
Cécile Rap-Veber, who supervised international agreements with GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon), YouTube or Tiktok, and launched the Global Platform for Treatment of Ureights Online Works, Account Recruit a new generation of computer scientists and data analysts needed to manage French directories, and above all global.
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