Bryan Pringle v. William Adams Jr et al

Filing 171

DECLARATION of Thibaud Fouet In Support of MOTION for Summary Judgment 159 filed by Defendants David Guetta, Frederick Riesterer, Shapiro Bernstein and Co. (Miller, Donald)

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Society Relations Management Division
Allocations Verification
Department
ATTESTATION
I, the undersigned, Thibaud FOUET, Head of the Allocations Verification Department of SACEM (Society of Songwriters,
Composers, and Music Publishers), hereby certify that:
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SACEM, as a civil society for the collection and allocation of royalties for the public performance and mechanical
reproduction of works by the songwriters, composers, and [music] publishers who are members in good standing
who have paid their dues, aims to authorize the public use of its catalog, and, in return, to collect copyright
royalties from those who make use of this catalog and are located within the society’s administrative territories,
which primarily include France;

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SACEM thus collects royalties for public performances from television and radio networks, from organizers of
concerts and other musical events, from nightclubs and cabarets, and from miscellaneous establishments equipped
with sound systems (cafés, hotels, restaurants, stores, etc.),

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SACEM has also signed representation agreements with 110 copyright organizations that handle music rights and
royalties throughout the world, notably the U.S. organization BMI. In accordance with the terms of these
agreements, each contracting organization manages, within its own respective administrative territory, the rights
and royalties issued by its own members to another contracting organization. Thus, SACEM, by virtue of the
representation agreement established with BMI, collects, in France, the royalties due for the use of works by
members of BMI, to which Mr. Bryan Pringle appears to belong,

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by and large, SACEM allocates the royalties that it collects on the bases of detailed broadcast reports that are
submitted to SACEM by users such as radio networks, television networks, concerts, events (80% of collected
royalties) and, to a lesser degree, based on the results of surveys targeting dances with bands and orchestras,
nightclubs, and those who produce private copies (13% of collected royalties) or, mutatis mutandis, based on works
reproduced on CDs if they have been broadcast on the radio or at concerts and thus concern rights and royalties
pertaining to sound systems in public establishments, such as cafés, restaurants, stores, etc. (7% of collected
royalties),

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over the past ten years, the works “Take a Dive” and/or “take a Dive (Dance Version)” have generated no copyright
royalties in territories covered by SACEM because they have not appeared on any broadcast reports submitted by
those who have made use of its catalog and have not been noted down on any of the surveys.

This attestation is hereby drawn up with all advantages thereto pertaining.
Signed in Neuilly Sur Seine on August 17, 2011.

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Thibaud FOUET

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