SACEM and Dailymotion are proud to announce an agreement fostering the broadcast of works on Web 2.0

In accordance with this agreement, Dailymotion will pay to SACEM a percentage of advertising revenues for the works the latter represents: musical works, musical documentaries and clips, dubbing and sub-titles, humour and also poems and sketches.

The agreement applies to the various types of video featured on the Web 2.0 platform , ie Official Content, Creative Content as well as User Generated Content.

The agreement is retroactive, taking effect from the date the service was launched. It will run until end 2010.

Bernard Miyet, CEO & Chairman of the Management Board of SACEM, explains: "This is the first agreement with a file sharing website. It symbolises our determination to remain involved in the development of new vectors for broadcasting music on Web 2.0 within a framework that respects authors’, composers’ and music publishers’ rights."

Mark Zaleski, CEO of Dailymotion, adds: “This agreement proves to anyone who may still have doubts, that authors’ rights are perfectly compatible with new ways of using works on Internet - as long as the new players elect clearly to position themselves as the natural allies of authors, as Dailymotion has.”

For the record:
SACEM’s vocation is to represent music authors, composers and publishers by protecting musical creation. Its essential mission is to collect authors' rights and to redistribute them to those whose works are broadcast or reproduced. SACEM is a private non-profit organization managed by music creators and publishers. Today, it has over 124,000 French and foreign members, and manages more than 32 million works.

As you know:
Dailymotion is the world’s most popular independent video website (over 38 million hits [source: comScore, October 2008]). Dailymotion offers the best contents, created either by its users or stemming from its partners or its Motionmaker programme.
Dailymotion places the most sophisticated technologies at the disposal of its users and content creators, and grants access to HD and high-quality videos through its fast and user-friendly website.

 Press Contacts

 SACEM
Fabienne Herenberg
+33 (0) 1 47 15 45 55 / +33 (0) 6 84 95 29 80

Dailymotion
BERMUDES-RP/ Frédérique Boyer
+33 (0)1 41 10 42 90