Festivals hit with direct licensing claims
The days of promoters paying a blanket fee to PROs may end as a growing number of songwriters collect their performance royalties directly
News By | 13 July 2016
Several European festivals are facing the prospect of paying multiple licensees this summer, caught in the middle between a growing number of headliners directly licensing their performance rights and local performance rights organisations (PROs) that only offer a one-stop blanket licence.
The situation follows a report by IQ in issue #64 that many European PROs (including SACEM in France, SGAE in Spain, GEMA in Germany and SUISA in Switzerland) rebate promoters up to 45% of performance royalties – money meant for…
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