Suisa becomes an Armonia member
The Swiss music rights administrator Suisa has joined Armonia, the world's largest network for international music licenses. It hopes that this will strengthen its negotiating position with online service providers in the music sector.
As an Armonia member, Suisa can negotiate license agreements with online service providers such as Amazon iTunes, YouTube or Spotify together with the other collecting societies. This has advantages over going it alone, as its repertoire is often comparatively unknown, writes Suisa.
By joining forces with Armonia, Suisa believes it can strengthen its negotiating position with online service providers and thus negotiate better contracts for its members - the composers, lyricists and publishers of music. This would also be an advantage for online service providers, as they would have a single point of contact for licensing a repertoire of music in demand worldwide in the online sector.
Suisa's membership of Armonia only affects its front office activities, i.e. negotiations with online music service providers. On the other hand, the collecting society will continue to handle its own billing processes and data independently via its own IT infrastructure.
Armonia is the world's largest network of copyright societies. It enables online music services to obtain licenses for the Europe-wide use of music. The network was founded by the collecting societies Sacem (France), Sgae (Spain) and Siae (Italy) and now represents a repertoire of over 12 million works in 33 countries.
