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Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM) is a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 professional association collecting payments of artists’ rights and distributing the right
Copyright

Copyright is a form of intellectual property which gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights for a certain time period in relation to that work, including its publication, distribution and adaptation; after which time the work is said to enter the public domain....
s to the original author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
s, composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
s and publishers.

oser Ernest Bourget in Paris in 1847 (see 1847 in music
1847 in music

Events * March 14 - Verdi's Macbeth premieres at Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Italy.* Franz Liszt gives up performing in public....
) succeeded in having payment made for his work which was being played in the leading café-concert at the time, Les Ambassadeurs
Les Ambassadeurs

Les Ambassadeurs is French language for the Ambassadors.* As a generic name , see Ambassador .It may also refer to:* Les Ambassadeurs restaurant: a Parisian restaurant....
. The French courts recognized these legitimate rights founded in revolutionary laws.






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Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM) is a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 professional association collecting payments of artists’ rights and distributing the right
Copyright

Copyright is a form of intellectual property which gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights for a certain time period in relation to that work, including its publication, distribution and adaptation; after which time the work is said to enter the public domain....
s to the original author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
s, composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
s and publishers.

History

Composer Ernest Bourget in Paris in 1847 (see 1847 in music
1847 in music

Events * March 14 - Verdi's Macbeth premieres at Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Italy.* Franz Liszt gives up performing in public....
) succeeded in having payment made for his work which was being played in the leading café-concert at the time, Les Ambassadeurs
Les Ambassadeurs

Les Ambassadeurs is French language for the Ambassadors.* As a generic name , see Ambassador .It may also refer to:* Les Ambassadeurs restaurant: a Parisian restaurant....
. The French courts recognized these legitimate rights founded in revolutionary laws. The provisional union of authors, composers and publishers of music was thus established in 1850, and one year later, the professional union became a society (société civile) comprised of members – authors, composers and publishers who divided the author’s rights collected amongst the members, and this rule has been maintained to the present day.

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