– Jean-Michel Jarre has done a good job over the past three years, and we feel confident that he will continue to do so until 2019, says TONO CEO Cato Strøm, about the French composer and synth pioneer who has now been re-elected for three new years as president of CISAC, the global umbrella organization for composers and lyricists.
/ 07/06/2016 / codex
CISAC (The International Confederation of Composers and Lyricists' Societies) announced on Monday the results of the election of its new president, vice-presidents and board members. The election was held at the organization's general assembly in Paris on June 3rd.
Electronic music pioneer, composer and producer Jean-Michel Jarre was re-elected as president for the period 2016 to 2019. He also held the position for the previous three-year term. The organization is global, and therefore also has four vice-presidents from different parts of the world. Three of the incumbent vice-presidents were re-elected: singer and songwriter Angélique Kidjo from Benin, Argentine director Marcelo Piñeyro and Senegalese sculptor Ousmane Sow. Chinese director, screenwriter and producer Jia Zhang-ke was elected as the new representative for the fourth vice-presidential term.
– Jean-Michel Jarre has had a high profile as CISAC President for the past three years, and has travelled extensively in connection with this. He has spoken out on behalf of creators in meetings with a wide range of key politicians and organisations, including the World Intellectual Property Organisation, the UN and UNESCO. Copyright and the general terms for composers and lyricists are a groundbreaking collaboration, and we feel confident that Jarre will do a good job also in the next three-year period, says Cato Strøm, CEO of TONO.
Here you can read more about Jean-Michel Jarre and the vice-presidents of CISAC
The election took place during CISAC's general assembly, which this year also marked the organization's 90th anniversary. It all took place in Paris, where the idea of collective management of composers' and lyricists' rights was first conceived. More than 250 representatives of CISAC member organizations from all over the world attended.
The CISAC organization was established in Paris in 1926 by a small group of like-minded, artist-owned management societies with a common goal: to represent the interests of composers and lyricists in a unifying collective management model. This is the model on which management societies such as TONO are still built. CISAC currently has 230 member organizations that together represent more than four million creators from a variety of art fields: music, audiovisual, drama, literature and visual arts.
The CISAC General Assembly also elected a new board for the next three years. Representatives from twenty member organizations were elected: APRA (Australia), ARTISJUS (Hungary), ASCAP (USA), Bildupphovsrätt (Sweden), BMI (USA), GEMA (Germany), JASRAC (Japan), LIRA (Netherlands), ONDA (Algeria), PRS for Music (GB), SACD (France), SACEM (France), SACM (Mexico), SADAIC (Argentina), SAMRO (South Africa), SGAE (Spain), SIAE (Italy), SOCAN (Canada), UBC (Brazil) and VEGAP (Spain).
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