According to the president of the Cisac, a confederation of 228 authors companies, the lack of precise information on each musical piece distributed on the platforms seriously lies the creators.
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According to Björn Ulvaeus, President of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), “creators need, in the world of streaming, reliable metadata”. The former guitarist and singer of the ABBA group estimates, thanks to the annual study published Thursday October 27 by this organization bringing together 228 authors companies and 4 million creators in 119 countries, that “too much of the data necessary to identify and remunerate the creators are incomplete or missing when the works are integrated by the streaming services [in their catalog] “. To the point that “hundreds of millions of dollars remain without allocation, instead of returning to the creators”, he assures.
m. ULVAEUS welcomes that the CISAC has already modernized the identifier of musical works in its repertoire, while providing it with companies. But “the more generalized adoption of this identifier is still slow”, he regrets. He is delighted with the first step taken by the British government which, in a campaign, invited in 2021 companies and organizations in the sector to commit to guaranteeing the precision and all of the metadata as soon as the recordings were created. Sign that “things move seriously, in the right direction”.
The other necessity, for creators is, according to him, “a better sharing of value”. An ancient claim. The president of the Cisac notes that tens of thousands of new titles are offered every day on streaming services, which “offers wonderful opportunities”, but “does not leave an unfinished taste because [streaming ] has still not resolved the question of its ability to support the creators in a fair and fair way, “he said. A gema report (the German equivalent of the company of authors, composers and music publishers) in the musical streaming sector across the Rhine brings it arguments in favor of its fight on the remuneration of the authors.
Structural growth in digital income
The study on the year 2021 shows a 7.2 % increase in world rights collections linked to music, to 8.48 billion euros. The best but not yet a return to what prevailed before the pandemic of Covid-19. This result makes it possible to reverse the decrease of 2020, but remains 5.1 % lower in 2019.
This is explained by “the hesitant revival of the live” – which remains stable, at almost 1.49 billion euros in 2021 (against 2.7 billion in 2019) – and by a slight decline which continues For five years in television and radio rights (- 1.8 %), but still retains the lion’s share (3.19 billion euros).
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