SACEM is proud to announce the membership of Rotana Audio Visual

Today, Salem al-Hindi, President of Rotana Audio Visual, signed the agreement by which his Group will become a SACEM member as a publisher. As from this date, the Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music will handle management, for the entire world except for Turkey, of this key publisher’s entire repertoire.

With a catalogue of nearly 7,000 works for 120 artists, Rotana Audio Visual stands out today as one of the largest music publishers in the Arab world. SACEM is honoured by the trust expressed by so prestigious a publisher and is pleased by such international recognition of the quality of its management in the service of its members.

This agreement illustrates Rotana Audio Visual’s will to benefit from the expertise of SACEM, which can, in turn develop close ties and positive cooperation with one of the major players in the area of musical creation in the Arab world.

Thierry Desurmont, Vice President of the SACEM Management Board, states:
“SACEM’s 128,000 members comprise 15,500 from abroad, including 5,000 from the Arab world. This new cooperation with the Group demonstrates our will to protect musical creation in this region.”

Bernard Miyet, CEO of the SACEM Management Board, adds:
“Present and active in Lebanon since 1942, SACEM also has privileged relations with SACERAU, the Egyptian collective management society, one thousand of whose rights holders are also members of SACEM.
Given these strong long-lasting historical ties, I am particularly satisfied with the agreement signed with Rotana Audio Visual in that it reinforces our ties with Arab creators, while also contributing to better defending their interests in the world. It also buttresses the eminent position SACEM has acquired in this region.”

© Julien Attard

Rotana Audio Visual

Rotana started off as a record company in 1987, and grew to become the leading producer / distributor of Arabic music and film in the world, with a portfolio of more than 100 artists.
In 2003, Rotana launched the first of its 7 free-to-air TV channels, internationally acclaimed as the market leaders in the fields of Arabic music and film, specialized in Arabic pop music, Arabic oldies, and Gulf music, all paralleled with the most popular Arabic movie channels – one featuring the biggest and latest blockbuster releases, and the other specialized in old classic films –, with the biggest owned Arabic film library in the world, and the highest revenue generating mobile content in the entire Middle East and North Africa. In 2004, Rotana’s family grew to count a regional radio network, an international festivals committee, a Magazine, and a regional chain of theme cafés known as Rotana Café.

Key figures:
7000 Works for 120 Artists Singers
www.rotana.net

Press contacts:
Hady Hajjar (Marketing Director) – hadyhajjar@rotana.net
Mobile: +961 3 797709

Zak Nassar (Marketing Manager) - Zak.Nassar@rotanagroup.net
Mobile: +9665 07480607

SACEM

SACEM is a private non-profit non-trading company managed by creators and publishers. Its vocation is to represent and serve authors, composers and publishers of original music and protect musical creation.
Founded over 150 years ago, SACEM was the first society in the world to represent musical creators’ interests. It has become a key international player and a reference in the management of authors’ rights.

Key figures:
128,000 members
M€ 755.8 collected in 2008
37 million works from the world repertoire represented

Press contacts:

SACEM
Fabienne Herenberg – fabienne.herenberg@sacem.fr
33 1 47 15 45 55 / 33 6 84 95 29 80

Diane Hérissé – diane.herisse@sacem.fr
33 1 47 15 45 94