CISAC

About CISAC

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CISAC
International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers

CISAC, Serving Authors Worldwide

Chaired by Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees and French visual artist and painter Hervé Di Rosa, CISAC (International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers) aims at increasing both the recognition and protection of creators’ rights worldwide. In a global and digital world, CISAC’s main missions are to reinforce the international network of copyright societies, to be the spokesperson of creators and their societies in all international debates and to reassert authors’ inalienable right to live by their creative work.

CISAC 232 members are authors’ societies that hail from 121 countries. Through them, we represent about 3 million creators and publishers of artistic works in all genres including music, drama, literature, audiovisual and the visual arts.
Royalties collected by CISAC’s members in 2009 reached € 7.152 billion (up 1.7% from 2008).
Established in 1926, CISAC is an international NGO with head office located in France, and regional offices in Chile, Hungary, Singapore and South Africa.
As an international organisation, CISAC’s fundamental role is to facilitate the operation of its member societies with a view to enabling them to seamlessly represent authors across the globe and, in particular, assist them in ensuring that royalties flow to authors for the use of their works anywhere in the world. Therefore CISAC deals with many different issues and a broad audience:

CISAC deals primarily with legal, business and technical questions related to royalty flow, digital exchange of information on works, creativity and cultural diversity, the status and rights of creators.
CISAC has a broad audience: the creative and entertainment industries; the “commercial users” of works protected by copyright such as radio and TV broadcasters, cable operators, telecom operators, ISPs, etc.); policy-makers and Government officials (in particular the European Parliament and the European Commission); IT developers and providers; software industry and the manufacturers of recording devices and blank media; Intellectual Property and copyright lawyers, teachers and legal experts; authors’ societies and creators.

World Copyright Summit

CISAC’s biennial World Copyright Summit is a groundbreaking international forum that brings together industry leaders from the IT and entertainment sectors, policymakers, consumer representatives, authors’ societies and creators to engage in a constructive dialogue on authors’ rights and creativity in the digital era.
The World Copyright Summit is an active part of CISAC’s proactive strategy to promote authors’ rights and collective management in a positive light.
The first two editions of the Summit (Brussels, May 2007 and Washington, DC, June 2009) attracted over 500 participants and garnered significant international media attention. The event returned to Brussels for its third edition on June 7-8, 2011.

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Mission: To promote and protect the rights and interests of creators, CISAC develops and strengthens a worldwide network of Collective Management Organisations (CMOs) by

providing them with political, economic, legal and technical support;
defining common rules and standards with which its members agree to comply.

Specific Goals:

to provide authors’ societies with the tools and knowledge necessary to operate at the highest professional level;
to advocate on behalf of creators and their societies in all relevant international discussions; and
to reassert the creators’ inalienable right to be able to make a living from their work.

Services:

Professional Rules and International Standards for authors’ societies
Rights Management Information systems
Society development
Advocacy

Members: 232 authors’ societies in 121 countries
Royalties collected by CISAC’s members in 2009: € 7.152 billion, up 1.7% from 2008.

CISAC Leaders:

President: Robin Gibb (British composer, singer-songwriter, member of the Bee Gees)
Vice-President: Hervé Di Rosa (French visual artist and painter)
Chairman of the Board of Directors: Kenth Muldin (CEO of STIM, Sweden)
Vice Chairs of the Board of Directors: Janine Lorente (Deputy Director of SACD, France) and Nicholas Motsatse (CEO of SAMRO, South Africa)
Chair of the International Council of Music Composers – CIAM: Bendik Hofseth, Composer and saxophonist / Board Member of TONO (Norway)
Chair of the International Council of Dramatic, Literary and Audiovisual Authors – CIADLV: Mary McMurray (Director and producer / Board Member of Directors UK)
Chair of the International Council of Authors of Graphic and Plastic Arts and of Photographers – CIAGP: Frank Stella (Painter and Sculptor / ARS (USA))
Director General: Olivier Hinnewinkel

Founded: in 1926
Locations:

Head Office: Neuilly sur Seine (France)
Regional offices: Budapest (Hungary), Santiago de Chile (Chile), Johannesburg (South Africa), Singapore

Funding: We derive our funding from annual membership dues, which are based on a small percentage of the gross royalties collected annually by each member society.