SACEM and WAT.tv Announce Agreement
French performing rights society SACEM has announced an agreement with WAT.tv that will remunerate SACEM for the works of the authors, composers and publishers the authors’ society represents including musical works, musical documentaries and videos, works of humour, dubbing and subtitling, as well as poems and sketches.
This contract bears on the different types of content present on the site www.wat.tv, the third video broadcaster on the Internet in France which features content from professional and creative partners and user generated content, thereby promoting musical creation and diffusion in the new media.
This agreement applies to WAT.tv’s activity since the launch date of the website.
Bernard Miyet, CEO & Chairman of the SACEM Management Board, said, “This agreement symbolizes our will to facilitate the diffusion of Web 2.0 music to offer passionate web users a genuine exchange forum and a freedom of access to works, while fully respecting the rights of musical authors, composers and publishers.”
Olivier Abecassis, Managing Director of WAT.tv, said, “By signing this agreement with SACEM on this symbolic date of the opening of MIDEM 2010, WAT is confirming its approach and that of the TF1 Group, to enhance content within an efficient innovative legal online video offering aiming to create an ecosystem adapted to brands and respectful of the creative value chain, from the author to the broadcaster. This signature ushers in a year 2010 rich in partnerships and changes for WAT.tv, with the ambition of developing the value of video in the new media in association with rights holders. I am completely satisfied with this agreement.”