France · Performance + mechanical
SACEM
What counts as black box here
About 83% is allocated from usage data, 7% by sampling and 10% by analogy. Payment follows 3–12 months after collection, up to 4× a year. Amounts become non-distributable 3 years after the collection year (Art. L324-15).
Mini box
Lit: compartments used and exit chute(s).
Its rules
Governed by EU/UK collective-management law: unpaid money must be identified, reported and eventually redistributed within set deadlines.
- Rights it handles
- Performance + mechanical
- Holds a pool?
- Yes
- Evidence level
- Analyst-mapped
How it distributes money
How often matched money is paid out, and how members can find what's theirs.
- Payment cadence
- 3–12 months after collection, up to 4×/yr
- Data maturity tier
- D
How it handles unresolved royalties
How long money waits, when the clock starts, and where it goes if nobody claims it.
- Holding clock
- 3 yrs
- Clock starts
- End of collection financial year
- Exit chute
- General Assembly sets the use policy; certain statutory categories go to cultural action
- Late claims after expiry
- 5-yr limitation on payment actions
Lifecycle path
- 1
Collect
Licensing income
- 2
Allocate
83% usage data, 7% sampling, 10% analogy
- 3
Pay
Up to 4× a year
3–12 months
- 4
Expire
Non-distributable
3 yrs after collection FY
- 5
Decide use
General Assembly policy
Published figures
No balance publicly disclosed (not the same as zero)