Our cultural practices are being disrupted by the emergence of digital technology and the emergence of new modes of dissemination of artistic creation. Thus, the streaming revolutionized access to works, especially music.
In this context, the Minister of Culture and Communication, Fleur Pellerin, affirmed the need to provide artists with remuneration that fairly reflects their contribution to value creation, and to preserve the diversity of artistic creation and its dissemination.
The Creative Freedom, Architecture and Heritage Bill, which will be reviewed in autumn 2015, reflects this ambition to put culture and artists at the heart of the digital transition by improving the level of protection of artists' rights-performers and by instilling greater transparency and regulation in the relations between the various actors in the sector: performers, phonographic producers and online music platforms.
However, progress must be made to achieve fair compensation for all actors: the lack of shared recognition of the remuneration of digital music operations reflects deep disagreements among representatives of performers, phonogram producers and online music platforms.
In order to reach an agreement on the definition of the remuneration structure and the distribution of income from digital music exploitation, the Minister of Culture and Communication, Fleur Pellerin, told Marc Schwartz, Senior Advisor to the Court of Auditors, a mediation mission to bring the positions of the stakeholders together and reach an agreement by the end of September 2015.