By Emmanuel Legrand
SCAPR, the Brussels-based organisation representing collective management organisations collecting and distributing performance rights on sound recordings for performers, has announced that its members have faced "a significant decrease of their revenues in 2020" that could represent up to 30% less than the previous years.
SCAPR will soon unveil full figures for 2020, which should be significantly below the €1 billion reached by its members in 2019. "The significant increase of the streaming platform activities currently has no impact on the majority of CMOs and the performers they represent," said the organisation, adding that "expectations are not good for 2021 either."
"The catastrophic impact of the Covid pandemic on live performances and the significant reduction of equitable remuneration for the exploitation of performers’ rights in public spaces due to the lockdown almost everywhere has had a major impact on the SCAPR community," said SCAPR.
For the second consecutive year, SCAPR will hold its General Assembly remotely at the end of May 2021. The organisation said it would present at the AGM all the achievements of the previous year as well as its plans for the coming one.
SCAPR, which represent 56 CMO’s from 42 countries, including PPL (UK), Adami (France), GVL (Germany) and SENA (Netherlands), has been mostly a European-centric organisation. It is now planning to extend its footprint Internationally and is in the process of recruiting resources in the South East Asia region to provide "additional support to existing members and also reaching out to new ones."
"We are always looking to develop relationships with other international organisations that have at their core the protection and promotion of performers’ rights worldwide, we are always ready to develop programmes with such like-minded entities," said the organisation.
One of SCAPR's key undertakings this year is the International Performer Number (IPN) Dissemination project, which helps identify precisely each and every performer in all sound recordings and audio-visual works. SCAPR took the decision to disseminate the IPN from its in-house International Performer Database to all interested third parties in the music and AV industries.
"Our database counts now one million performers (musicians, actors, dancers, etc) and benefits from the high standard data quality thanks to the daily work of our members in charge of its maintenance," said SCAPR. "While such information was reserved to SCAPR members only, we are in the process of developing a specific tool for third parties to retrieve or check an IPN."
The purpose of the project is to ensure that all performers (featured and non-featured) are properly identified and therefore "can be remunerated properly for all their contributions to sound recordings or audiovisual works." This new functionality should be made available to market players during the second half of 2021.
SCAPR will soon unveil full figures for 2020, which should be significantly below the €1 billion reached by its members in 2019. "The significant increase of the streaming platform activities currently has no impact on the majority of CMOs and the performers they represent," said the organisation, adding that "expectations are not good for 2021 either."
"The catastrophic impact of the Covid pandemic on live performances and the significant reduction of equitable remuneration for the exploitation of performers’ rights in public spaces due to the lockdown almost everywhere has had a major impact on the SCAPR community," said SCAPR.
Expand internationally
For the second consecutive year, SCAPR will hold its General Assembly remotely at the end of May 2021. The organisation said it would present at the AGM all the achievements of the previous year as well as its plans for the coming one.
SCAPR, which represent 56 CMO’s from 42 countries, including PPL (UK), Adami (France), GVL (Germany) and SENA (Netherlands), has been mostly a European-centric organisation. It is now planning to extend its footprint Internationally and is in the process of recruiting resources in the South East Asia region to provide "additional support to existing members and also reaching out to new ones."
"We are always looking to develop relationships with other international organisations that have at their core the protection and promotion of performers’ rights worldwide, we are always ready to develop programmes with such like-minded entities," said the organisation.
High standard data
One of SCAPR's key undertakings this year is the International Performer Number (IPN) Dissemination project, which helps identify precisely each and every performer in all sound recordings and audio-visual works. SCAPR took the decision to disseminate the IPN from its in-house International Performer Database to all interested third parties in the music and AV industries.
"Our database counts now one million performers (musicians, actors, dancers, etc) and benefits from the high standard data quality thanks to the daily work of our members in charge of its maintenance," said SCAPR. "While such information was reserved to SCAPR members only, we are in the process of developing a specific tool for third parties to retrieve or check an IPN."
The purpose of the project is to ensure that all performers (featured and non-featured) are properly identified and therefore "can be remunerated properly for all their contributions to sound recordings or audiovisual works." This new functionality should be made available to market players during the second half of 2021.
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