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SGAE
Spain’s principal collective management organization for authors and publishers across music and other creative works. It licenses uses and distributes composition royalties in Spain and abroad.
- Best for
- Composers, lyricists and music publishers working substantially in Spain or its represented repertoire.
- Skip if
- You only perform on or own recordings without controlling the underlying composition.
- First move
- Confirm the rights and territories being assigned, then register works with complete writer and publisher shares.
- Watch out
- SGAE has a complicated governance history, and its mandate may overlap with other publishers or administrators if agreements are not reviewed carefully.
- Reach
- Industry-wide
- When
- Worth it once you have releases out.
- Based in
- Spain