Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d´Auteurs et Compositeurs

Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d´Auteurs et Compositeurs

Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d´Auteurs et Compositeurs (CISAC) (International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers), founded in 1926, is a performance rights organisation, which coordinates the protection of its member creators' rights.

As of June 2010, CISAC numbers 229 authors’ societies from 121 countries and indirectly represents more than 2.5 million creators within all the artistic repertoires: music, drama, literature, audio-visual, graphic and visual arts.

In June 2007, CISAC’s General Assembly elected UK singer-songwriter Robin Gibb (The Bee Gees) as President of CISAC and Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón as Vice President. CISAC’s President and Vice President represent and voice the opinion of the international community of creators as well as the system of collective administration that promotes their rights.

The total amount of royalties collected by CISAC’s member societies, on their own national collection territories, amounted in 2009 to more than €7.152 billion.

CISAC is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation. Its headquarters are in Paris, with regional offices in Budapest, Buenos Aires and Singapore.

CISAC has co-founded with the AGICOA, FIAPF, and ISAN-IA, the international Geneva-based non-profit association in charge, by mandate of ISO, of delivering the International Standard Audiovisual Numbers (ISAN), a voluntary numbering and metadata system for the identification of audiovisual content. In order to assign IPMP (Intellectual Property Management and Protection) number on worldwide scale the CISAC secretariat has been appointed by ISO organization as Registration Authority for IPMP (MPEG-4 Part 1 - ISO/IEC 14496-1) in July 2001.[1][2]

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