SCAPR represents 60 CMOs in 45 countries. Membership offers CMOs access to a wealth of collaboration and expertise, fostering exchanges at every level—from data and remuneration sharing to best practices and know-how.
Through dedicated working groups, tailored support, and mentorship programs, SCAPR empowers its members to thrive collectively.
Accurate payments to performers are highly dependent on effectivity and accuracy of information exchanged between CMOs.
To facilitate CMOs operations and strengthen international exchanges, SCAPR has developed 2 Information Systems to properly identify performers and recordings they are attached to.
These solutions make performers remuneration management faster, efficient, accurate, and more transparent—helping CMOs focus on what matters most: supporting performers.
A unique and reliable information system identifying individual performers in sound recordings and audio-visual works and, where applicable, the CMOs representing them. Currently, over 1.1 million performers are registered on IPD.
An international and centralized service that enables CMOs to accurately document the repertoire they represent and share their local usage lists (or “playlists”) with other CMOs (collective management organisations).
Joining SCAPR gives you access to dynamic working groups designed to drive international cooperation even further, empowering members to exchange, learn from each other, and share best practices.
Each working group has its own area of focus, but they collaborate closely to take a multidisciplinary approach, leveraging each other’s expertise to deliver well-rounded and impactful solutions.
SCAPR has 4 official working groups. Each of them are convened by 2 representatives of the SCAPR CMOs’ community elected every year.
The goal of the Business and Operations Working Group (“BWG”) is to increase the cross-border flow of payment between countries by improving the implementation of representation agreements, with a special focus on the operational aspects of data and remuneration exchange under these agreements.
Recognizing the diversity among CMOs, each with unique distribution rules, systems, and processes, the BWG works to harmonize practices, procedures and formats files across the SCAPR community.
Over the years, the BWG has played a key role in developing standards and tools that make cross-border exchanges smoother, more efficient, and more reliable, supporting CMOs in their mission to better serve performers worldwide.
Convenor: Olga Madera Lastra (AIE, Spain)
Deputy Convenor: Greta Ferrario (SPEDIDAM, France)
The Legal Working Group (LWG) tackles all legal matters related to CMO activities, offering valuable in-depth analyses, recommendations and templates. It plays a key role in supporting the SCAPR Secretariat, Board, and other Working Groups by clarifying the legal dimensions of key topics.
To ensure focused expertise, the LWG is organized into specialized subgroups. These bring together professionals from SCAPR members with specific legal knowledge, providing the community with targeted insights and practical solutions.
The LWG is instrumental in empowering CMOs to navigate complex legal landscapes to the benefit of exchanges between CMOs and, ultimately, performers.
Convenor: Camilla Waite (PPL, UK)
Deputy Convenor: Milan Ter Weijden (SENA, Netherlands)
The Cooperation and Development Working Group (CDWG) designs and coordinates cooperation activities, aiming to support CMOs in the implementation, development and enforcement of performers’ rights.
Recognizing the unique challenges and needs of CMOs across different regions, the CDWG relies on the expertise of SCAPR members and strong partnerships to deliver customized support. This ensures that performers around the world benefit from efficient and reliable collective management of their rights.
Any performers’ CMO, whether a member of SCAPR or not, that seeks to advance the collective management of performers’ rights is welcome to request support of the CDWG.
Convenor: Gregor Stibernik (AIPA, Slovenia)
Deputy Convenor: Laurence Oxenbury (PPL, UK)
The Technical Working Group (TWG) is a collaborative forum where technicians and operational staff from SCAPR members address in-house Information Systems and Tools, discuss technical enhancements, the implementation of SCAPR solutions and align practices to improve the quality and efficiency of data exchanges between CMOs through SCAPR tools.
The TWG plays a crucial role in supporting the Databases Committee, the Board, and SCAPR members by offering expert feedback, recommendations, and guidance on proposed technical developments.
Organized into specialized subgroups, the TWG addresses specific topics and provides targeted support, ensuring comprehensive and effective input to enhance operations across the SCAPR network.
Convenor: Sander Teekens (SENA, Netherlands)
Deputy Convenor: Konstantin Vogel (SWISSPERFORM, Switzerland)
In addition to its four main permanent working groups, SCAPR actively establishes ad-hoc working groups to address specific, pressing issues as they arise. These groups reflect SCAPR’s commitment to staying aware, flexible, and responsive to the evolving challenges within the industry.
By focusing on contemporary concerns, these groups ensure that SCAPR remains at the forefront of addressing the needs of performers and collective management organizations (CMOs).
Here are some examples of such initiatives:
The entire community of SCAPR AV CMOs is invited to participate in the AV FORUM, regardless of their status or their own degree of development as a CMO.
Convenor: Francisco Gimenez Merchante (AISGE, Spain)
Deputy Convenor: Diederik Mos (NORMA, Netherlands)
Convenor: Christophe Van Vaerenbergh (Playright, Belgium)
SCAPR promotes the use of standard documentation within its community, to facilitate cooperation and exchanges between CMOs. To that purpose, our community has developed and offered to our members legal and standard documentation for their use, e.g. a representation agreement template, checklists and recommendations on specific topics, standard distribution statement, formats files, etc…
Thanks to its extensive network of experts and a strong global community, SCAPR offers comprehensive support to its members in managing their daily operations. This includes tailored training programmes, operational assistance for starting and streamlining activities, sharing of best practices, and strategic guidance for engaging with key stakeholders. SCAPR also fosters a spirit of collaboration and mutual assistance among members, promoting the exchange of knowledge and resources to enhance the overall efficiency and effectiveness of Collective Management Organisations worldwide.
SCAPR also provides services to performers’ CMOs who are not yet part of our community.
Tailor-made support to CMOs:
SCAPR provides tailored support to CMOs in establishing and enhancing their operations for the collective management of performers’ rights. Our assistance is customized to meet the unique needs of each CMO.
Feel free to reach out to us to discover how we can assist you!
Additional Tools:
SCAPR has developed a set of applications designed for CMOs and cultural industry stakeholders to enhance the identification of performers throughout the value chain.
IPN Search App
This service is open to authorized CMOs and other stakeholders from the cultural industry. It allows them to search and retrieve International Performer Numbers (IPNs) preexisting in IPD. By integrating IPNs into their databases, they ensure performers are accurately and unambiguously referenced, paving the way for better data management and ultimately ensuring performers receive the remuneration they deserve.
IPN Creation App
This tool allows authorized performers’ CMOs to create IPNs for the performers they represent, in turn ensuring clear identification, streamlining data flows, and guaranteeing performers receive the remuneration they deserve.
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