{"id":127214,"date":"2025-01-17T09:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/01\/17\/deezer-and-sacem-bring-artist-centric-royalties-to-publishing-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T09:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:08:13","slug":"deezer-and-sacem-bring-artist-centric-royalties-to-publishing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/01\/17\/deezer-and-sacem-bring-artist-centric-royalties-to-publishing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Deezer and SACEM Bring Artist-Centric Royalties to\u00a0Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tIn fall 2023, Deezer announced it was adopting an \u201cartist-centric\u201d royalty model with Universal Music Group (UMG) in an effort to better compensate acts with significant followings and the rightsholders who own their recordings. That move, intended to tackle fraud and reduce royalties flowing to what is essentially noise and \u201cfunctional music\u201d was intended to rebalance a streaming model that some major players believe needs reform.\u00a0Other\u00a0major labels followed, as did Spotify, which made different adjustments to its royalty model toward the same end. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Wednesday (Jan. 15), Deezer and the French PRO SACEM announced a deal to compensate publishing rightsholders the same way. \u201cWe started a year and a half ago with UMG and then the other majors,\u201d said Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier<\/strong>. \u201cAnd now we\u2019re doing it on the publishing side.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tSACEM\u2019s interest in this idea goes back to an analysis of the potential effects of artist-centric royalty payouts that the PRO conducted last year. \u201cThe first thing I wanted was to remove noise from the revenue, especially at a time when dilution is an issue\u201d said SACEM CEO C\u00e9cile Rap-Veber<\/strong>, \u201cThe second thing is that it helps prevent fraud.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Deezer will not remove any music from its platform as a result of this agreement, the service will either demonetize or essentially allocate less royalties to some tracks, by boosting the royalties earned by others. The change, which will take effect soon, could help labels and services better prepare for the age of AI, when music executives worry that online services will be flooded by unpopular, low-value music that cuts into their business with sheer scale. \u201cWith AI coming,\u201d Rap-Veber says, \u201cwe\u2019re afraid that human creation might be affected.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tDeezer\u2019s specific plans are more ambitious than what it did on the recording side. Like other artist-centric models, artists get a royalty boost for hitting a measure of popularity \u2014 in this case, double royalties for songs that are actively searched out or those by artists with 1,000 streams a month from 500 different subscribers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMore interesting, the service will impose what it calls a \u201cuser centric cap\u201d that will limit how much the listening choices of any individual subscriber can affect royalty payouts, which will also make fraud more difficult and less efficient. Also, Deezer will completely exclude from the royalty pool tracks that consist of noise and \u201cfunctional sounds,\u201d such as rain on a roof; instead, Deezer will recommend similar music that it owns, which will not count for payout purposes and thus not take royalties from other rightsholders. (Some of these tracks might not even be considered copyrighted works under EU law, at least on the publishing side. While recording the sound of rain on a roof might arguably involve creative choices, there is no composer in the sense of copyright law.) Deezer will also\u00a0remove\u00a0tracks that have not been streamed in a year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In fall 2023, Deezer announced it was adopting an \u201cartist-centric\u201d royalty model with Universal Music Group (UMG) in an effort to better compensate acts with significant followings and the rightsholders who own their recordings. That move, intended to tackle fraud and reduce royalties flowing to what is essentially noise and \u201cfunctional music\u201d was intended to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}