ECSA
The Polar Music Prize Committee has, apart from single members potential to nominate future laureates, an international working process for nominations, which enables broader substrate for the Prize Committee to relate to in a sample process. The Prize Committee receives nominations from ECSA (the European Composer and Songwriter Alliance) and its 38 author representative organisations in 25 European countries.
CISAC (Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d´Auteurs et Compositeurs)
All over the world composers, authors and their publishers have felt the need to organize themselves collectively and form societies in order to safeguard their interests as musical creators. The recognition of authors’ rights can never be taken for granted. Authors and composers know from bitter experience that their works are of a volatile nature, easy to make use of without respecting the rights of the creator. Respect for the author as a key element in the creative process cannot be overestimated. The widespread use and increasing rate of intensity with which music is used necessitates collective administration of authors rights. The tool is collecting societies like SACEM in France, GEMA in Germany, JASRAC in Japan, ASCAP or BMI in the United States and STIM in Sweden.
Together they form CISAC (the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers and the World Congress of Authors and Composers). It now has some 209 member societies from 109 countries, representing more than 2 million creators. In 2000, the total amount collected by
CISAC members, taking all activities and all national territories into consideration, increased to more than € 6 billion.
Web Site: www.cisac.com
IFPI (the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry)
IFPI (the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) is the trade organisation of the international recording industry. It comprises a membership of more than 1.500 record producers and distributors in 76 countries. Members range from the major record companies to small independent producers. IFPI has affiliate national groups in over 46 countries. Its international Secretariat is based in London and is linked to regional offices in Brussels, Hong Kong, Miami and Moscow. IFPI’s mission is to fight music piracy, promote fair market access and adequate copyright laws, help develop the legal conditions and the technologies for the recording industry to prosper in the digital era and promote the value of music in the development of economies, as well as in social and cultural life.
Web Site: www.ifpi.org
