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If you are broadcasting or playing sound recordings in public, a SAMPRA licence is required.
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Apply for a licenceWho are recording artists
Recording artists are lead vocalists, backing vocalists, instrumentalists (guitarists, drummers, pianists, saxophonists, violinists,
keyboardists, etc), and studio producers who make a performing contribution to the recorded performance.
PERFORMER CATEGORIES
Recording Artists on sound recordings are divided into three categories: Featured Performer, Non-Featured Performer, and Other Featured Performer:
- A Featured Performer is an individual Performing Artist in whose name the CD/track
was recorded, or a member of a band and who made a performing contribution to the recorded performance. - A Non-Featured Performer is a Performing Artist who has been engaged for a fixed period of time, customarily known in the industry as a session, specifically to make one or more recorded backing performances which subsequently are included in the sound recording. This includes a studio producer who makes a performing contribution to the recorded performance.
- An Other Featured Performer is a guest recording artist whose contribution would ordinarily fall within the Non-Featured Performer status, but merits Featured status.
Background
SAMPRA is a collective management organisation (“CMO”) that administers Needletime Rights on behalf of recording artists and record labels. In 2013, a co-operation and settlement agreement was reached between the old SAMPRA and the Performers’ Organisation of South Africa Trust (“POSA”), a CMO that administered Needletime Rights on behalf of recording artists.
The agreement stated that POSA and the old SAMPRA would merge to form one CMO (to be known as SAMPRA) representing record companies and recording artists in terms of Regulation 3(1)(c) of the Regulations on the Establishment of Collecting Societies in the Music Industry. The agreement also stated that the new merged CMO would have two chambers: the Performers’ Chamber, and the Record Labels’ chamber.
The new SAMPRA is governed by a board in which record companies and recording artists enjoy equal representation. The board of the new SAMPRA is, therefore, made up of six representatives from the Performers’ Chamber, and six representatives from the Record Labels’ Chamber.
In 2016, a new Memorandum of Incorporation (“the MOI”), that gave effect to the agreement signed between POSA and the old SAMPRA in 2013, was adopted to formally merge POSA with…
