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Who we are
Adami is a society for the collective administration of performers’ rights. It operates on a not-for-profit basis.
For over fifty years, Adami has been collecting and individually distributing the sums due to 100,000 actors, singers, musicians, conductors and dancers for the use of their recorded works. It currently counts more than 23,000 members.
An organisation created and managed by performers
The Board of Adami is made up of 34 members, representing the many sides of performers art. They are elected by their peers in three separate Committees: the Drama Committee, the Popular Music Committee, and the Conductors and Soloists Committe (which includes singers, musicians and dancers).
Board Members are elected for three years by members of Adami. They aim to promote the interest of their common profession, performing artist, while representing it in all its diversity.
Our main aim: to guarantee the fair management of performers’ rights
The digital revolution has strongly impacted intellectual property rights, and foreseeing their evolution is tricky. To face the new challenges brought about by the digital era, Adami chose to remain true to its origins. It is devoted to the preservation and furthering of collective management of performers’ rights.
An organisation attentive to performers’ needs and questions
Representatives of Adami are always present at the many professional events it supports to meet performers and professionals, to inform them and help them understand their rights.
An organisation that unites performers, with a focus on artistic creation
In order to promote performers’ work and creation, and to strengthen the identity of all artistic trends, Adami is planning to open a Performing Artist’s House. The main purpose of such a place will be to bring together in a friendly atmosphere the services artists need to carry out their projects.
What are Adami’s main tasks?
- To manage and distribute the remuneration due to performers for the use of their recorded works
Adami’s core expertise is to manage and distribute, to each performer individually, the sums due to them for the use of their recorded works. The money is shared according to the uses of each recording : copies made by members of the public on blank recording devices (such as blank CDs, or MP3 players), broadcast by television or radio, or in public places.
In 2007, Adami shared 38 M€ between 45,000 performers, in France and in Europe.
- To support artistic creation in order to promote lawful employment of performers
In accordance with the Intellectual property Code, Adami devotes 25% of the sums coming from private copying, and all the money that could not be distributed to performers after 10 years, to artistic projects that promote employment of performers, help new talents emerge, and provide professional training for artists.
- To protect and promote the rights of performers nationally and internationally
Adami continually seeks to better inform performers, members of the public, professionals and decision-makers of the importance of performers’ rights. It contributes regularly to symposium and conferences where issues affecting performers are discussed.
Each year, Adami organises the European Meetings for Performers in Cabourg (Normandy), to discuss the evolution of their revenues and rights. Adami is also a member of AEPO-Artis, which unites 27 European collective management organisations for performers and represent them at European level.
Further information
ISO 9001
In 2009, the Adami distribution and information systems implemented the ISO 9001 certification. This international standard ensures performers a permanent control of the distribution of their rights. Adami is the first society managing performing artists’ rights to be granted this certification.