“We should all value and respect each other's efforts in this business, and work together to find solutions”
The Swiss love concerts and festivals. Every year new festivals are founded, even in remote mountain areas. Some quickly disappear, whilst others can look back on a tradition of 40 years or more. Also a wide range of music clubs attract large crowds every week.
In 2015, SUISA licensed more than 20,000 concerts and festivals, where over 360,000 different songs were performed, generating royalties of CHF20.3 million (€18.9m) – nearly 50% of all revenue from performing rights. Considering Switzerland has a population…
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Chantal Bolzern, head of the performance rights department at Swiss collection society SUISA, outlines the importance of co-operation between PROs and promoters
Comment 7 February 2017