SPRE
SPRE is a French non-profit collective management organization founded in 1985 that collects statutory equitable remuneration from commercial phonogram users (bars, restaurants, retailers, radios, TVs, webradios, discotheques) and redistributes it to performing artists and phonogram producers, retaining management fees under 10% on €164.2M of 2025 collections.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded1985
- HeadquartersParis, France
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingServices
What SPRE does
SPRE (Société pour la Perception de la Rémunération Équitable de la Communication au Public des Phonogrammes du Commerce) is a French non-profit civil society (société civile) founded in 1985 under Law n° 85-660, headquartered at 27 rue de Berri, Paris. It is the collective management organization (OGC) designated under Article L214-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code to collect "rémunération équitable" — equitable remuneration — from businesses and broadcasters that use commercial phonograms in the course of their commercial activity. The organization has no external shareholders and is governed by two equal colleges representing performing artists (ADAMI and SPEDIDAM, 40% combined) and phonogram producers (SCPA, comprising SCPP and SPPF, 50% — double the artists' college), with 80 shares of capital of €10 each. Day-to-day management rests with four cogérants (co-managing directors), and operational oversight comes from the CCOGDA commission of the Cour des Comptes.
SPRE's commercial footprint covers ten user categories via sector-specific fee schedules that are either proportional to taxable revenue (e.g., 1.65% for discotheques and BAM/RAM, 22% of phonogram usage rate for commercial radios, 2% of net revenue for TVs) or flat-rate based on operating size (e.g., €119.88–€1,011.16 HT for cafes and restaurants depending on seating and commune size, €110.60–€479.27 HT for retail shops based on headcount, €109.42/store + per-m² surcharges for large-scale distribution). The underlying collection technology is a digital portal at portail.spre.fr that handles annual declarations, invoicing, payments (credit card and direct debit), and account changes, while collection for the long-tail of "sonorized venues" (background-music establishments) is delegated to SACEM under a 2010 regulatory decision.
SPRE's business model is a transaction-fee levy on a statutory revenue base: in 2025 it collected €164.2M from more than 400,000 music users in France, retaining an average management fee of under 10% and redistributing the balance 50/50 to performing artists and phonogram producers. Collections are split across music-attractive venues managed directly (discotheques, BAM/RAM, public/commercial/associative radios and webradios, TV channels) and sonorized venues managed via SACEM (cafes, restaurants, retail, hair salons, large-scale distribution, hotels). Marketing is restricted: SPRE is not a commercial seller but a legal mandate, and dissemination of user obligations is amplified through industry associations (UMIH, GNI, CDCF, SNEG, CSLMF, CNRA, FFRC, SIRTI, SNRL, AFEDD, SNDLL) and on its own sector-coded website.
SPRE firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- SPRE
- Legal name
- SPRE – SOCIETE POUR LA PERCEPTION DE LA REMUNERATION EQUITABLE DE LA COMMUNICATION AU PUBLIC DES PHONOGRAMMES DU COMMERCE
- Website
- https://spre.fr
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 1985
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- SPRE is a French non-profit collective management organization founded in 1985 that collects statutory equitable remuneration from commercial phonogram users (bars, restaurants, retailers, radios, TVs, webradios, discotheques) and redistributes it to performing artists and phonogram producers, retaining management fees under 10% on €164.2M of 2025 collections.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
SPRE industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Collective Rights Management (Neighboring Rights)
- NAICS
- Business Associations (813910)
- SIC
- Services-Membership Organizations (8600)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Performing Rights Organizations (PROs) & Public Performance Licensing (MPAIAKAA)
Keywords
Where SPRE is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Paris
- HQ country
- France
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices1 record
Markets served
SPRE business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Services
- Cost components
- Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales
Revenue model
- Equitable remuneration collection: SPRE collects statutory equitable remuneration (rémunération équitable) from users of commercial phonograms based on sector-specific fee schedules. Fees are proportional to business revenue for music-attractive venues (discotheques, BAM/RAM, radios, TVs) and flat-rate for sonorized venues (background music). Collections are redistributed 50/50 to performing artists and phonogram producers after deducting management fees.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Transaction based/ take rate | Monthly | Discotheques & similar establishments - proportional fee |
| Transaction based/ take rate | Monthly | BAM/RAM - proportional fee (large) or flat-rate (small, ≤153,000€ HT) |
| Transaction based/ take rate | Annual | Public radios - progressive rate |
| Transaction based/ take rate | Annual | Commercial radios - proportional or flat-rate |
| Transaction based/ take rate | Annual | TV channels - proportional or flat-rate |
| Transaction based/ take rate | Annual | Webradios - proportional or flat-rate |
| Unit Pricing | Annual | Cafes & restaurants - flat-rate based on seating and commune size |
| Unit Pricing | Annual | Retail shops - flat-rate based on employee count |
| Unit Pricing | Annual | Large-scale retail - surface-based calculation |
| Unit Pricing | Annual | Hair salons - flat-rate based on employee count |
| Unit Pricing | Annual | Other sonorized venues - 65% of copyright fee |
Go-to-market motion2 records
Distribution channels2 records
Marketing channels3 records
SPRE product offering
Product offeringCore offering
SPRE is a French non-profit collective management organization (OGC) that collects statutory equitable remuneration (rémunération équitable) under Article L214-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code from commercial music users — discotheques, bars and restaurants with musical ambiance (BAM/RAM), radios, TVs, webradios, and sonorized venues such as cafés, restaurants, retail shops, hair salons, and large-scale distribution — and redistributes collections to performing artists and phonogram producers through its member organizations (ADAMI, SPEDIDAM, SCPP, SPPF). Service operations are supported by the Portail SPRE online portal for annual declarations, invoicing, and payments.
Product overview
SPRE operates as a single, unified service — a French collective rights management organization (OGC) that collects and distributes equitable remuneration (rémunération équitable) for performing artists and phonogram producers under Article L214-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code. Its core offering is the collection service, supported by an online portal (Portail SPRE) enabling users to make declarations, pay invoices, and manage their accounts digitally. The service covers multiple user categories: discotheques and similar venues, bars and restaurants with musical ambiance, commercial/public/associative radios and webradios, television channels, and sonorized venues (retail, hair salons, large-scale distribution, cafés, restaurants, and other locations). SPRE has also mandated SACEM to collect on its behalf for certain sonorized venue categories.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Products and services
- SPRE Online Portal (Portail SPRE)
Quantifiable outcome
- Management fee rate maintained below 10%, maximizing redistribution to rights holders
Companies that use SPRE
Customer profileNamed customers10 records
Segments4 records
Ideal customer profiles5 records
SPRE technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
SPRE partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.
- SACEMcoreSACEM acts as SPRE's mandated agent for collecting equitable remuneration from sonorized venues (background music establishments). SPRE has given SACEM authority to bill and collect on its behalf for establishments where music serves a secondary role. This covers Article 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of the 2010 regulatory decision.
- ADAMI (Société pour l'Administration des Droits des Artistes et Musiciens Interprètes)coreADAMI represents performing artists and musicians in SPRE's governance. SPRE is a civil society (société civile) with two colleges: artists and producers. ADAMI holds 20 shares (out of 80 total) alongside SPEDIDAM representing artists.
- SPEDIDAM (Société de Perception et de Distribution des Droits des Artistes-Interprètes)coreSPEDIDAM represents performing artists in SPRE's governance as part of the artists-interprètes college. Holds 20 shares (with ADAMI) in SPRE's 80-share capital structure.
- SCPA (Société Civile des Producteurs Associés)coreSCPA represents phonogram producers in SPRE's governance. Holds 40 shares (double the artists' college total) reflecting the producers' representation. SCPA itself comprises SCPP and SPPF.
- SCPP (Société Civile pour l'exercice des droits des Producteurs Phonographiques)coreSCPP is one of the two producer societies within SCPA, representing phonogram producers in SPRE's member structure. Together with SPPF, SCPP comprises the producers' college.
- SPPF (Société Civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France)coreSPPF is one of the two producer societies within SCPA, representing French phonogram producers in SPRE's governance structure.
- UMIH (Union des Métiers et des Industries de l'Hôtellerie)minorIndustry association representing hotels and restaurants in France. SPRE partner to help disseminate information about equitable remuneration obligations to hospitality sector members.
- CDCF (Confédération des Debitants de Boissons)minorConfederation of beverage retailers. SPRE partner helping inform members about music broadcasting obligations.
- GNI-HCR (Groupement National des Indépendants de l'Hôtellerie-Restauration)minorNational group representing independent hospitality professionals. SPRE partner for disseminating information about equitable remuneration.
- SNEG & CominorProfessional organization in the entertainment/event sector. SPRE partner for nightlife industry information dissemination.
Scale indicators3 records
Recent moves5 records
Expansion highlights4 records
SPRE competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- SACEM: France's primary collective management organization for musical composition rights and SPRE's mandated agent for collecting equitable remuneration from sonorized venues. Both are French CMOs operating under the Intellectual Property Code, with SACEM handling composition rights and SPRE handling neighboring rights — a natural operational pairing.
- ADAMI: French CMO for performing artists' rights in audiovisual and musical fields. ADAMI is also a member/shareholder of SPRE (representing the artists' college), making it a direct counterpart in the neighboring rights ecosystem with overlapping beneficiary populations.
- SPPF: French CMO representing independent phonogram producers, member of SCPA alongside SCPP. SPPF and SPRE share the same producer beneficiary population for neighboring rights in France.
- SPEDIDAM: French CMO for the rights of performers in music. Like ADAMI, SPEDIDAM is a member of SPRE's artists' college. It directly redistributes neighboring rights income to performers and operates in the same French performer-rights ecosystem as SPRE.
- SCPP: French CMO for phonogram producers, part of the producers' college within SPRE's SCPA structure. SCPP and SPRE share the phonogram producer beneficiary population and both operate within the French neighboring rights framework.
Regional players
- ADAGP: French CMO for visual arts creators (painters, sculptors, photographers). While operating in a different creative domain, ADAGP is a structural peer to SPRE as a French non-profit CMO under the same national intellectual property framework.
- SIAE (Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori): Italy's CMO covering authors, editors, performers, and phonogram producers. SIAE is functionally comparable to SPRE in the Italian market, with a combined rights mandate that overlaps with SPRE's narrower neighboring rights scope.
- SCAM: French CMO for audiovisual authors, part of the same French collective rights management ecosystem as SPRE. While SCAM covers audiovisual authors rather than phonogram producers, both are French CMOs operating under the Intellectual Property Code with analogous governance structures.
Broad incumbents
- PPL (Phonographic Performance Limited): UK CMO collecting equitable remuneration for performers and phonogram producers when recorded music is played publicly. PPL is a direct functional peer to SPRE in the UK, with comparable statutory mandate and music user base (broadcasters, venues, retail).
- GVL (Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten): Germany's collective management organization for neighboring rights of performers and phonogram producers. GVL is the closest international structural peer to SPRE, operating analogous functions under German law and serving as a benchmark for European neighboring rights collection.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat4 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights6 records
Customer concentration
SPRE social profiles
Digital presenceSPRE financial estimates
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SPRE leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles4 records
SPRE funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
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Frequently asked questions about SPRE
What does SPRE do?
SPRE is a French non-profit collective management organization (OGC) that collects statutory equitable remuneration (rémunération équitable) under Article L214-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code from commercial music users — discotheques, bars and restaurants with musical ambiance (BAM/RAM), radios, TVs, webradios, and sonorized venues such as cafés, restaurants, retail shops, hair salons, and large-scale distribution — and redistributes collections to performing artists and phonogram producers through its member organizations (ADAMI, SPEDIDAM, SCPP, SPPF). Service operations are supported by the Portail SPRE online portal for annual declarations, invoicing, and payments.
Is SPRE a public or private company?
SPRE is a private company. It is classified as nonprofit foundation owned and is currently operating.
When was SPRE founded?
SPRE was founded in 1985. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is SPRE based?
SPRE is headquartered in Paris, France, in the Europe region.
How does SPRE make money?
One revenue line is on record: equitable remuneration collection.
Who are SPRE's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are SACEM, ADAMI, SPPF, SPEDIDAM and SCPP. Regional players are ADAGP, SIAE (Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori) and SCAM. Broad incumbents are PPL (Phonographic Performance Limited) and GVL (Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten).
Does SPRE have an API?
No public API is recorded for SPRE.
What industry is SPRE in?
SPRE's product category is Collective Rights Management (Neighboring Rights). Its primary akta.pro industry code is MPAIAKAA, Performing Rights Organizations (PROs) & Public Performance Licensing. Its NAICS code is 813910 and its SIC code is 8600.