La Sociedad General de Autores de la Argentina

What La Sociedad General de Autores de la Argentina does

La Sociedad General de Autores de la Argentina (Argentores) is a nonprofit collective management society (sociedad de gestión colectiva) founded in 1910 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, operating under Argentine Law 20.115. The entity collects and distributes copyright royalties on behalf of authors across five creative disciplines — theater, radio, cinema, television, and new technologies (digital platforms, VOD, web series, podcasts) — through five dedicated professional councils (Consejos Profesionales). Its core statutory mandate confers exclusive representative authority over national and foreign authors in Argentina, making it the sole collective channel for licensing dramatic and audiovisual rights domestically. Revenue is generated by levying tariffs on the public communication of its repertoire — including a 3% rate on digital platform service revenues and advertising revenues, and up to 3% on TDA (Digital Terrestrial Television) channels — and on traditional theater, radio, and broadcast use. Royalties are distributed to members based on declared works and participation percentages.

Argentores operates a self-service Portal Autogestión (portalautores.argentores.org.ar), where authors declare works, manage procedures, and track royalty inquiries. The Radioteca María Mercedes Di Benedetto federal digital archive project preserves Argentine radio heritage. The organization is governed by member authors through elected leadership and operates across Buenos Aires headquarters (Pacheco de Melo 1820), an Anexo (Juncal 1825), and the Espacio Encuentro cultural venue (Peña 2033), alongside a network of provincial concessionaries and cultural delegations under the Argentores Federal program. It is a member of CISAC (with Vice Presidency status held by Teresa Parodi in 2026), Writers and Directors Worldwide, AVACI, FESAAL, and maintains reciprocal agreements with sister societies including SGAE (Spain). Beyond royalty collection, Argentores delivers training (Tutoría de Guiones, Diplomatura with UNTREF), standardized contracts (web series, film agreements), advocacy (Cultura Abierta), competitions with prize money (Concurso de Guion de Cortometraje, 'De la música, el sonido y la coreografía a la escena'), and an annual awards franchise (Premios Argentores). Headcount is 51–100 employees. No external funding, M&A, or investor structure exists; the entity is owned and controlled by its author members.

Name

La Sociedad General de Autores de la Argentina

Legal name

La Sociedad General de Autores de la Argentina

Website

https://argentores.org.ar

Company type

Private

Founded year

1910

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Argentores is a nonprofit copyright collective management society founded in 1910 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that collects and distributes royalties for authors across theater, radio, cinema, television, and digital platforms under Argentine Law 20.115.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Buenos Aires

HQ country

Argentina

HQ region

Latin America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Copyright Royalty Collection and Distribution: Argentores collects and distributes royalties from the public communication of works (theater, radio, cinema, television, and digital platforms). Authors declare their works and claim economic rights; percentages reflect each author's participation in the creative work. The organization levies tariff rates on the use of its repertoire by platforms and producers.
2. Digital Platform Tariffs: A tariff of 3% of net revenues is applied to the use of the audiovisual repertoire on digital platforms (VOD, streaming) and 3% of net advertising revenues on digital platforms. For Digital Terrestrial Television (TDA) channels, a tariff of up to 3% of net revenues also applies.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Argentores is a non-profit collective management society that collects and distributes copyright royalties for Argentine authors across theater, radio, cinema, television, and digital platforms under Argentine Law 20.115. It operates professional councils for each media discipline, manages licensing tariffs with platforms and producers (including 3% of net revenues on digital platforms), provides a self-service portal for work declarations and royalty inquiries, and delivers training programs, awards, federal outreach, and legal representation to its member authors.

Product overview

La Sociedad General de Autores de la Argentina (Argentores) is a collective management society for authors in Argentina operating across five creative disciplines: Theater, Radio, Film, Television, and New Technologies. The organization provides professional councils in each discipline that manage rights distribution, production calculations, international rights collection, and rate schedules. Its core services include the Portal Autogestión for online author procedures, work declaration services, and various contractual templates such as web series contracts and film agreements. Argentores also operates training programs including screenwriting mentorship, seminars, and masterclasses; awards programs recognizing authorial excellence; federal outreach through regional delegations; and cultural initiatives including a digital publication (Revista Autor@s) and radio archive project. The organization connects authors with digital platforms, streaming services, and traditional broadcast media while defending and managing their economic and moral rights.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Portal Autogestión Self-service digital portal enabling authors to manage their authorial procedures, submit work declarations, and access administrative services online.
• Declaración de Obras (Work Declaration Service) Authorial work declaration service enabling authors to claim authorship and economic rights for public communication of their works.
• Plataformas Digitales (Digital Platforms Licensing Service) Digital platforms service addressing rates and rights for audiovisual repertoire use on streaming platforms, applying 3% of net revenues and 3% of net advertising revenues.
• Premios Argentores Annual awards recognizing outstanding authorial production in television, film, radio, and theater disciplines, including Best Sketch, Best Documentary, Best Telenovela Script, and Best Series.
• Argentores Federal National program implementing communication tools and services for authors throughout Argentina, with cultural delegations operating in various provinces such as Tucumán, Entre Ríos, and Neuquén.
• Radioteca María Mercedes Di Benedetto Federal radio archive project preserving and recovering Argentine radio history, collecting audio content from across the country, managed by the Radio Professional Council.
• Revista Autor@s Digital publication by Argentores featuring articles, interviews, author profiles, industry commentary, and cultural content relevant to Argentine authors.
• Contrato de Guiones para Serie Web Standardized web series script contract for author-producer agreements covering digital distribution and public communication rights.
• Tutoría de Guiones para Series de TV Screenwriting mentorship program pairing selected authors with experienced mentors to develop television series projects, including pitching workshops.
• Concurso de Guion de Cortometraje para las Infancias Argentores 2026 Short film script competition focused on children's content, with prize money distributed to winning entries (AR$1,000,000 total: AR$700,000 first prize, AR$300,000 second prize).

Quantifiable outcome

• 115 years defending authors' rights

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

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Feature2 records

Partnerships

16 partnerships are on record, tiered major, minor and core.

• Secretaría de Cultura de Entre RíosmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 May 2026Cooperation discussions with Entre Ríos Secretary of Culture led by Argentores Secretary Guillermo Hardwick, proposing joint activities for the support and promotion of local playwrights and screenwriters.
• Instituto de Artes Audiovisuales de Entre Ríos (IAAER)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 May 2026The IAAER (led by Maxi Schonfeld) agreed to establish links with Argentores' Professional Councils for Cinema and TV to conduct masterclasses and streaming conversations for local screenwriters, and to evaluate Argentores' participation in the FICER (Festival Internacional de Cine de Entre Ríos).
• Teatro Municipal Tres de febrero (Paraná, Entre Ríos)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 May 2026A cooperation agreement proposed with Teatro Municipal Tres de febrero (directed by Francisca D'Agostino) including a playwriting contest with winning works published by the provincial government and a future premiere in the theater with involvement of the Consejo de Teatro Independiente de Entre Ríos.
• Consejo de Teatro Independiente de Entre RíosminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 May 2026Training activities for playwrights and radio scriptwriters agreed with the Consejo de Teatro Independiente de Entre Ríos (led by María Cristina Witschi), in collaboration with Argentores' Radio Professional Council.
• Fundación SGAE (Sociedad General de Autores y Editores de España)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 May 2026Argentores and the SGAE Foundation maintain an annual exchange competition for dramaturgy. Argentine and Spanish authors compete and the winners travel to each other's capitals for semi-staging of their works and public conversations with local authors and audiences.
• Secretaría de Cultura de NeuquénmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 April 2026A cooperation agreement between the Neuquén Secretary of Culture and Argentores oriented to promote joint cultural activities. Planned initiatives include a playwriting contest and the creation of an audiovisual training center for fiction and non-fiction production.
• UNTREF (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 June 2025Argentores and UNTREF signed a cooperation agreement to offer a 'Diplomatura Superior en Showrunner y Gestión Integral de Proyectos Audiovisuales' with benefits for Argentores members. The program is open for enrollment with member discounts.
• UAI (Universidad de la Actividad Italiana / Universidad Abierta Interamericana)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 April 2025Argentores and UAI signed an alliance to integrate the entity's experience in the university environment to promote audiovisual training and awareness of authors' rights among students and emerging professionals.
• CISAC (Confederación Internacional de Sociedades de Autores y Compositores)coreOthersArgentores is a member of CISAC, the international confederation of authors' societies. In 2026, Argentores' Teresa Parodi was named Vice President of CISAC, representing Latin America and the Caribbean.
• DAC (Directores Argentinos Cinematográficos)minorOthersAffiliated Argentine collective management society for film directors, listed among Argentores' partner organizations in the institutional footer.
• SADAIC (Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de Música)minorOthersAffiliated Argentine collective management society for music authors, listed among Argentores' partner organizations in the institutional footer.
• SAGAI (Sociedad General de Autores de la Argentina)minorOthersAffiliated Argentine authors' society (distinct from Argentores), listed among partner organizations.
• AADIM (Asociación Argentina de Directores de Musicales)minorOthersAffiliated industry association for musical directors, listed among Argentores' partner organizations.
• Writers and Directors WorldwideminorOthersInternational collective management society for writers and directors, listed among Argentores' international partner organizations.
• Audiovisual Authors (European grouping of audiovisual author societies)minorOthersEuropean grouping of audiovisual author societies affiliated with Argentores, listed among international partner organizations.
• FESAAL (Federación de Entidades Audiovisuales Latinoamericanas)minorOthersLatin American audiovisual federation affiliated with Argentores, listed among international partner organizations.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves41 records

Expansion highlights8 records

Broad incumbents

• SACEM (Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Éditeurs de Musique): SACEM is a major French collective management society with broader scope (music and audiovisual), part of the CISAC network alongside Argentores. It serves as a comparable large-scale CMS model for how statutory authority and reciprocal agreements scale across borders.

Regional players

• SCD (Sociedad Chilena del Derecho de Autor): SCD is Chile's peer collective management society for authors, operating under similar statutory authority within FESAAL (Latin American audiovisual federation) alongside Argentores. Provides a comparable LATAM CMS benchmark.
• DAC (Directores Argentinos Cinematográficos): DAC is the Argentine collective management society for film directors, structurally parallel to Argentores' Consejo de Cine but serving a different rights holder (directors rather than screenwriters). Listed as a formal institutional partner.

Others

• ALAS (Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociedades de Autores): ALAS is a regional industry association for Latin American authors' societies, peer to the FESAAL affiliation that Argentores maintains, relevant as an enabling ecosystem organization for the continental rights-collection network.
• CISAC (Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Auteurs et Compositeurs): CISAC is the international umbrella federation of collective management societies, of which Argentores is a member. Provides the reciprocal collection infrastructure that allows Argentores to monetize Argentine works exploited abroad.

Direct peers

• SGAE (Sociedad General de Autores y Editores de España): SGAE is the Spanish collective management society for dramatic and audiovisual authors, structurally identical to Argentores. Both share Law-derived statutory authority, professional councils across disciplines, and a direct annual exchange competition (Concurso Argentores SGAE) for dramaturgy.
• SAGAI (Sociedad Argentina de Gestión de Actores Intérpretes): SAGAI is an Argentine CMS for actors (a related but distinct rights-holder community). Operates under similar statutory framework as Argentores, formally listed as a partner organization, and similarly affiliated with CISAC.
• SADAIC (Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de Música): SADAIC is Argentores' Argentine sister society focused on music authors (composers and lyricists). Both operate under Argentine law with statutory authority, share CISAC membership, and are listed as formal partner organizations in Argentores' institutional footer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Facebookfacebook.com/Argentoresnacional
• Instagraminstagram.com/argentoresnacional
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/argentores

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Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

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