Why join Sacem?

While protecting your musical creations, you can benefit of receiving your royalties whenever your works are played, and prevent your work from being used and broadcasted without your consent.

In Luxembourg, it is by joining the SACEM Luxembourg that authors and composers protect their works, once they are:

Either a commercial recording on CD, DVD or any other multimedia support system
Either performed during a concert
Either broadcasted over the radio, on television or over the Internet

There are also other ways to protect your work, as for example under the form of registered mail send to yourself, or the ‘Ipil’.

Further information regarding the letter is available on their official Benelux website of the intellectual property: https://ipil.lu/fr/

• you agree to deposit all your works
• you agree to observe the provisions of the Statutes and General Regulations of Sacem
• you provide the company with the right to authorize or prohibit the performance or public performance (concert, show, television, radio, etc.) and reproduction (records, cassettes, videos, etc.) of your works
• you also retain the full exercise of your moral rights: no arrangement or adaptation of your works can be filed without your consent.

Have your works already been broadcasted in public or been reproduced ?

If the answer is yes, then there you already have one of the reasons why you should join SACEM Luxembourg. We do not only ensure legal protection, but also the perception and distribution of the royalties for the public distribution of your works (radio, TV, concerts, shows,…), as well as the reproduction on CD, DVD, CD-ROM,…) or on any other hard drive support (USB, multimedia reader, SD card,…).

All the registered works, memberships and accounts are managed daily in our computer database, just as well for Luxembourg, as for foreign countries.

SACEM represents more than 176 150 members, including 1200 Luxembourgish members and has a repertoire of over 62 million works worldwide!

It is made in two stages:

1. Assignment of royalties:

When a musical work is performed publicly: "performing right royalties". The lists of the used works are combined with the sums paid by the broadcaster. The rights are determined, for every work, according to its duration and of the number of times it’s being broadcasted.

The right to reproduce a piece of music onto CDs, DVDs, records or tapes: "mechanical rights". The distribution is made according to the duration of each of the works appearing on the recording and of the number of produced copies.

2. Division of the sums between the various creators of every work:

A work can be written by one or more people, published or not, being used in public and/or reproduced (CD, audio cassette or video). For each work, the amount allocated to rights holders is determined according to different splits.

The royalties are distributed as follows:

Performing right royalties: For radio, television, concerts, dances and all public performances of works, the split is statutory and does not vary.

Mechanical reproduction rights (phonograms, videograms): The split is contractual. it is based on an agreement reached between a work’s creators and the publisher, if applicable. The split is specified on the registration form.

The document below will inform you about the different distribution methodologies.

Watch the video « Synthèse de mes répartitions" et "Mes répartitions détaillées" available on your member area.

To accompany in an interactive way the reading and the understanding of your distribution leaflets, SACEM provides you with two services allowing the display of your rights by origin, by family and by country.