Licensing the use of SCPP members’sound recordings and music videos
Producers’ related rights
Related rights, introduced by the Act of 3rd July 1985 and incorporated in the Intellectual Property Code, give producers an exclusive right to authorise or forbid:
• reproduction,
• communication to the public,
• supply to the public of their recordings (sound or music videos).
Producers can administer their related rights individually or, in certain cases, give the SCPP authority to administer them.
See “Uses of sound recordings and music videos: producer administration or collective administration” at the end of this brochure.
General contracts of common interest: facilitating the acquisition of rights
As part of its remit, the SCPP can offer users the opportunity to enter into “general contracts of common interest” to facilitate the use of sound recordings and music videos belonging to its members’ catalogues. This collective administration mechanism authorises the use of the SCPP repertoire in whole or in part without the need to ask each producer for a separate licence.
Uses authorised by general contracts of common interest:
• Broadcasting music videos on television.
• Screening music videos in public places.
• Using excerpts from sound recordings and music videos for on-line services (Internet).
• Using excerpts from sound recordings for interactive voice services.
• Using sound recordings for interactive listening terminals.
• Using sound recordings as background music in public places, for shows and for certain audiovisual programmes.
• Using sound recordings for telephone music-on-hold (SCPA).
• Using sound recordings for webcasting (Internet radio).
etc.