The signatories
Professional associations and trade unions
API - Association des Producteurs Indépendants - API represents the Gaumont, MK2, Pathé, UGC production companies with the public, national and European authorities.
CEMF - Chambre Syndicale des Éditeurs de Musique de France - CEMF groups classical music publishers for the purpose of studying, defending and representing the interests of classical music publishers and the defence of authors’ rights.
CLUB DES AUTEURS - The Club des Auteurs groups a majority of television scriptwriters and strives to promote their status and defend creativity and the diversity of genres in French television.
CSDEM - Chambre Syndicale de l’Édition Musicale - CSDEM represents variety music publishers for the purpose of defending authors’ rights, promoting and advocating music, representing and defending the profession.
FN SAMUP - The Fédération Nationale SAMUP brings together trade unions representing performers, creators and teachers of music, dance and theatre.
GROUPE 25 IMAGES - Groupe 25 Images is a movement grouping the majority of directors of television drama to work together to create the conditions for improving the exercise of their trade. Their watchwords are respect for partners, the public, authors’ rights and diversity.
QWARTZ - Qwartz is a sustainable international cultural project dedicated to music, artists, producers and labels, with the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards as its operational and promotional platform.
SAMMAR-CGT - Syndicat des Artistes Musiciens de Marseille et de sa Région - This trade union for musical artists from Marseille and its region is affiliated with SNAM.
SAMUP - A trade union for performers, creators and teachers in the areas of music, dance and theatre.
SDAMP-CGT - Le Syndicat des Artistes Musiciens de Paris et de l’Île de France - This trade union for musical artists from Paris and its region defends its members’ material and moral interests and is affiliated with SNAM.
SFA - Syndicat Français des Artistes Interprètes - SFA, a member of the Fédération du spectacle CGT and the FIA, promotes and defends the moral, social and economic rights of theatrical, operatic, choreographic, visual and traditional artists, as well as those of variety and circus performers and puppeteers.
SN2A-FO - Le Syndicat national des activities artistiques FO groups actors, emcees, variety artists and stage managers.
SNAC - Syndicat National des Auteurs et des Compositeurs - Founded in 1946, SNAC (with some 700 members) brings together, on a strictly professional plane, lone creators or those whose works are disseminated in the different repertoires of authors’ societies. It assists authors in negotiating contracts and settling disputes, and defends them individually and collectively.
SNAM-CGT - L’Union Nationale des Syndicats d’Artistes Musiciens de France CGT, founded in 1956, groups 35 local or regional trade unions. It is the heir to the Fédération des Musiciens founded early in the 20th century within the CGT trade union.
SNACOPVA-CFE CGC - Its purpose is to study and defend the moral, material, economic and professional interests of conductors, arrangers, similar or related professions. It is a member of the FCCS-CFE-CGC.
SNAPS CGC - Syndicat des Cadres Artistiques, founded in 1954 to ensure protection for musical artists, conductors and soloists, as well as the world around them.
SNEA-UNSA - Syndicat National des Enseignants et Artistes - This trade union groups teachers from conservatoires and private and public music schools, as well as performers in permanent ensembles and intermittents (freelance entertainment artists).
SNJ - Syndicat National des Journalistes - This professional trade union was founded in 1918 for the purpose of structuring and defending professional journalists, salaried and freelance.
SNJ-CGT - Syndicat National des Journalistes CGT - This is the first confederation of journalists’ trade union. It strives for a different way of informing, emancipated from the interests of the industrial and financial groups that tend to concentrate all media and culture to transform them into products
SNM FO - Syndicat National des Musiciens
SNMS - Syndicat National des Metteurs en Scène - This national stage directors’ union aims to include all French and European directors.
SPFA - Syndicat des Producteurs de Films d’Animation - This union aims to organize, develop and promote French animated film production. It comprises some fifty production companies and studios.
SPI - Syndicat des Producteurs Indépendants - The SPI brings together producers of films (short and feature length), television programmes and institutional films for the purpose of defending and promoting freedom of creation of audiovisual and cinematographic works, the diversity of works produced and the independence of production companies in the sector.
SRF - Société des Réalisateurs de Films - SRF has the mission to “defend artistic, moral, professional and economic freedom of creation and participate in the development and evolution of the structures of cinema.” It is a member of the French Coalition for Cultural Diversity and the European Federation of Audiovisual Directors.
UCMF - Union des Compositeurs de Musiques de Films - With over 120 members, Film Composers’ Union brings together both the emerging generation and the best known French names. Its vocation being to explain and defend the attributes of a profession essential for cinematographic and audiovisual creation, UCMF has become the voice of composers to national and international organizations and the media.
UGS - Union-Guilde des Scénaristes - Emerging from the merger of the Guilde des Scénaristes and the Union des Scénaristes, UGS, with 200 members, is the only union for professional French screenwriters for cinema and television, documentaries, animation and multimedia.
UNAC - Union Nationale des Auteurs et Compositeurs - UNAC groups professionals for all texts and all music, calling all those who practise these professions to unite and fight together, apolitically, to defend their rights and make them respected, in the digital world in particular.
UMJ - Union des Musiciens de Jazz - The jazz musicians’ union is an association representing professional musicians on a national level in the sector of jazz and improvised music. It defends and aims to improve conditions for the creation, diffusion and production of these musicales genres.
UPP - Union des Photographes Professionnels - An association under the French law of 1901, this creative photographers’ union aims to promote the profession and defend the interests of creative photographers. UPC represents them with the public authorities and in all national and international organizations working constantly to defend authors and improve conditions for the exercise of their profession.
UPF - Union des Producteurs de Films - The purpose of the film producers’ union is to organize, defend and develop film production, ensure pluralism and growth of the cinematographic industry. Its resources: bringing together producers with the ambition to have a French and European cinema that is diversified, independent and close to all audiences.
UPFI - Union des Producteurs Phonographiques Français Indépendants - UPFI is a professional organization with over 90 members grouping the main French independent producers and distributors. UPFI acts as the voice of the profession to structure reflection, action and communication to defend their profession.
USJ CFDT - Union Syndicale des Journalistes CFDT - Heir to the oldest journalists’ association in France, USJ CFDT combines the experience of a century of initiatives in the defence of journalists, both authors and salaried workers, and respect for their rights on all media: printed, audiovisual and Internet.
USPA Union Syndicale de la Production Audiovisuelle - USPA aims to unite and represent television programme producers and organize, protect and defend their interests.
