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News for SUISA members / June 2024

News for SUISA members / June 2024

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  • In the spirit of innovation

    The 2024 Annual General Meeting is just around the corner, together with a whole host of innovations that our cooperative has in store.

  • Artificial intelligence – an update on political events

    Artificial intelligence is on the move, destination: the future. As is so often the case, the law is lagging behind, but has joined the race to catch up. Here is an update on what is happening at political levels.

  • Cost-of-living adjustment for authorsʼ pensions

    Through the Pension Fund for Authors and Publishers and the annual contributions to pension fund assets, SUISA fulfils a social function. The Pension Fund grants pension benefits to authors and publishers who satisfy certain conditions. Effective 1 January 2024, the reference income for authors was adjusted to the cost of living. What does this mean in practice and how do the two pension systems work?

  • The anniversary year in retrospect

    Last year was another record year for SUISA. Performance rights were the main contributor: two years after the end of the pandemic, SUISA realised the highest revenues in its history in the concert area. Online rights remained on their satisfactory trend with continued growth in 2023.

  • Online revenue from “The Mechanical Licensing Collective” in the USA

    Remuneration collected by “The Mechanical Licensing Collective” for mechanical rights from online use in the USA: What it’s all about and how it works.

  • Public screenings for the European Football Championship: what to consider

    Many organisers will once again be holding public screening events for the European Football Championship this year. Whether it’s in the office, at an open-air bar or as part of a club event, you need permission from SUISA for these kinds of events.

  • Making of “The Code”

    The song “The Code” is a journey, in terms of music and content. The Swiss entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, composed by Nemo, Benji Alasu, Linda Dale and Lasse Nymann, was created at the SUISA Songwriting Camp.

  • “Mushroom music and glacier crunching: Sounds fantastic? Well, it actually is”

    On 16 April 2024, the project “Zukunftsmusik – Utopie sonore – Échos du futur (future sounds)” was presented at the Yehudi Menuhin Forum in Bern. The audience of present times got an impression of how composers living today created their musical greetings for an audience of future times, in the year 2123.

  • A revised charter for more Swiss music on SRG channels

    On 14 March 2024, SRG SSR (the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation) signed a new Swiss Music Charter with representatives of nine organisations from the music sector. The objective of this charter is to promote Swiss music and its talents on all SRG channels and to make Swiss music visible.

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