Publishers raise new concerns over SGAE practices

ICMP has raised concerns SGAE is returning to behaviour that is "detrimental to the vast majority of Spanish authors and to all foreign ones"

SGAE offices in Madrid were raided last year © Luis García

The International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) has today raised new concerns that controversial Spanish performance rights organisation (PRO) SGAE is back to its old tricks.

In a statement released today, ICMP suggests despite being reprimanded by the international publishing community and a World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) arbitration panel, SGAE continues to act dubiously. The dubious behaviour in question refers to a scam dubbed ‘the wheel’.

‘The wheel’ saw certain SGAE members and Spanish television execs allegedly work together…

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