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Two day's are left before 2019 and this happens:
My father organizes new years eve banquet each year. This year is pretty awfull 100 people instead of the usual 300.
Today he got a call from the SACEM.
The SACEM in France is the organism that enforce copyright music and distributes the money to artist.
It's understandable that money needs to be given when non-free copyrighted music is played. But here's the thing, it's the DJ who pays it, not the chef and it worked like that for the past two decades.
So the SACEM tells that he needs to pay a fee based on the number of people and the price of his menus.
What in the blazes of hell does the price of the menus have to do with music ? The number of people why not, but food ? So basically this takes 3 euros from the menus and 3x100 less for my fam.
It goes on. Then we called the DJ and we asked about this and he said that it's weird because he already paid that. So my father calls back the SACEM and then ask what is happening because it was already paid. The people on the line told that he was lucky because he did not have to pay the SPRE and that he has to pay.
The SPRE is the second organism of the SACEM that was created to distribute the money to the non-free copyright holders.
So here's my question, if the SPRE isn't involved, where does the money go ?
Another fun fact about france laws of copyrighted music is that even with free/libre copyright music you have to pay the SACEM/SPRE to play it in public space.
And the question is similar, if the copyright of the music is free/libre does the money given it goes to the authors ?
This government is going down in the next month.
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@mangeurdenuage Usually these kinds of orgs are really good at collecting money and really bad at distributing it. Well, the big artists usually get paid decently but obviously there are some hoops to jump through as an artist and smaller artists may not know. And depending on which country you are in you can't tell the org not to charge for your music.