Planning ahead in a crisis situation
Advance planning is particularly important in times of crisis. During the December 2020 meetings of the Board, SUISA looked at …
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Negotiating in the age of corona … and with corona
Negotiating is one of SUISA’s key functions. SUISA negotiates tariffs and contracts inter alia. It must safeguard the interests of …
Income and expenditure, investments and an anniversary
A wide-ranging list of topics was on the agenda for discussion at the meetings of the SUISA Board on 28 …
Report of the task force of the SUISA Board of Directors - end of June 2020
In April 2020, SUISA’s Board of Directors set up a working group to respond as quickly as possible to the …
Corona budget up to the end of May has been met
For the second time, the Board of Directors had to hold its regular meetings as video conferences due to corona. …
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SUISA General Meeting: Emergency fund for authors and publishers approved
SUISAʼs General Meeting approved the emergency fund for composers, lyricists and publishers of music in the amount of CHF 1.5 …
From forte to pianissimo in just a few beats
In 2019, SUISA recorded its best results in its 96-yrear history, with total revenues of CHF 171 million. Moreover, thanks …
Support for SUISA members during the corona crisis
Following the federal COVID-19 ordinances, music usage plummeted depriving authors and publishers of a significant portion of their royalty revenues. …
No General Meeting 2020 – but voting by correspondence instead
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the General Meeting cannot take place in its usual form. However, members with voting rights may …
A Board Meeting focused on the coronavirus
To comply with coronavirus regulations, SUISA’s Board met for the first time by video conference on 28 and 29 April …
The revised copyright law has come into force
The coronavirus pandemic has naturally eclipsed this event. Yet the amended Federal Copyright Act came into force on 1 April …
Collective management is a service for music creators and music users alike
Whether it’s background music in businesses or the new blanket license deal covering videos with music on the internet for …
Penny-pinching in digital music distribution
Business in the online sector has been subject to constant change - not only for copyright societies. In the second …
Brave new world
There is hardly any other technical development that has turned the music business upside down as much as the success …
Outlooks and insights
In its meetings on 10 and 11 December 2019, the Board focussed on the budget for 2020 and SUISA’s strategy …
Switzerland finally has a new copyright law!
On 27 September 2019, both the National Council and the Council of States at last held a final vote approving …
How SUISA distributes fees collected for background entertainment
More than 100,000 companies in Switzerland use music, TV and films for background entertainment purposes. For these usages, the companies …
Two new faces for the Board meeting in autumn
At the General Meeting in June 2019, two new members were elected into the SUISA Board. At the first meeting …
Wanted: New member for the Distribution and Works Committee
How are collections distributed to authors and publishers? Who receives how much and from which usages of their works? Such …
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A look back at the SUISA General Meeting 2019
Around 150 voting SUISA members attended the annual General Meeting on 21 June 2019 at the Kongresszentrum in Biel to …
Summer meeting of the SUISA Board
As in previous years, the summer meeting of the SUISA Board took place on the day before the General Assembly, …