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Performer — living in France

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As a performer

Your options in France

Register with your home performers' society. It pays you when the recordings you play or sing on are broadcast or played in public, and it can collect from other countries where it has agreements.

France has more than one society for this role. Check each card's notes on joining more than one of them.

ADAMI

Administration des droits des artistes et musiciens interprètes · France

Your home society

Who can join: Performers
Joining fee: €15 one-off admission fee (€1.52 share, €10.43 file fee, €3.05 subscription to the Adami newsletter). Fully refunded if your application is refused.
Yearly fee: Not published
Processing time: Not published

Apply online: Yes: log in or create a personal account, then complete the admission request; signature is digital and payment is made by card at step 4.
Members from abroad: No nationality or residency condition appears in the published admission rules. When applying you may exclude certain territories (except France) or certain categories of rights.

Who is eligible

You took part, as a performer, in the recording of an audiovisual work (film, series, show) or a sound recording.
You must prove your identity and at least one recorded (fixed) performance.
Heirs or legatees of a performer can also join in the performer's name (one common representative if several).

What to have ready0 of 3 ready

Copy of ID card or passport, front and back.
Proof of a recorded performance, e.g. a recording contract, a payslip for a performance, or an Adami distribution statement.
Information needed to pay you (identification and payment details).

Apply at ADAMI ↗

Sources and notes

Receiving Adami payments does not mean you are a member (associate).

Only performers can apply online.

The online-admission terms still say the signed deed must be posted, while the how-to page says no paper is needed; applications may go to an admission commission.

Rules only say applications are examined 'as soon as possible'; membership starts once your share is recorded in the accounts.

Sources — ADAMI's own pages, read on 2026-10-06. Fees and rules change: the society's site is the reference.

www.adami.fr/aide/4689/qui-peut-devenir-associee-de-ladami/ (who can join, eligibility)
www.adami.fr/en/aide/become-a-member/ (eligibility, members from abroad, documents, notes)
www.adami.fr/aide/6117/cgu-admissionenligne/ (joining fee, documents, notes)
www.adami.fr/aide/4719/comment-faire-sa-demande-dadmission/ (online application, application link, notes)

SPEDIDAM

Société de perception et de distribution des droits des artistes-interprètes · France

Your home society

Who can join: Performers
Joining fee: €16 share (part sociale), paid with the signed membership deed.
Yearly fee: Not published
Processing time: Not published

Apply online: Yes: membership is fully online through the MySpedidam artist account (create an account, then follow the steps).
Members from abroad: Any performer can become an associate whatever their nationality. You can limit your mandate to certain territories and/or rights categories.

Who is eligible

You prove professional activity as a performer.
You prove participation in at least one sound or audiovisual recording.
All performers qualify whatever their discipline (music, dance, acting, circus) or role (featured or backing).

What to have ready0 of 3 ready

Signed membership deed (acte d'adhésion).
Proof of professional activity as a performer.
Proof of participation in a sound or audiovisual recording.

Apply at SPEDIDAM ↗

Sources and notes

Membership (and any limits on it) takes effect on 1 January after SPEDIDAM receives it.

You do not need to join to receive French equitable remuneration and private-copy pay; joining is needed for foreign income and exclusive rights.

You can join both SPEDIDAM and ADAMI, but only one of them can collect your income from abroad.

You can also join author or producer societies (SACEM, SCPP, SPPF, etc.) for your other rights.

Online membership via MySpedidam launched in July 2026; the apply link is a login page with a sign-up option.

Sources — SPEDIDAM's own pages, read on 2026-10-06. Fees and rules change: the society's site is the reference.

www.spedidam.fr/artiste-interprete/devenir-associe/ (who can join, eligibility, online application, application link)
www.spedidam.fr/faq/artiste-interprete/ (eligibility, members from abroad, joining fee, documents, notes)
www.spedidam.fr/actualites-evenements/le-nouvel-espace-artiste-myspedidam-est-desormais-en-ligne/ (notes)

How we chose these

Your home society comes first: it is the one you join for the rights listed. The joining details come from each society's own website, read on the date shown on its card. Countries we haven't checked yet show the society from our worldwide directory, with a link to its site.

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Why join?

Songwriters

Societies pay the writers registered with them. If you write songs and aren't a member of an authors' society, your writer share of radio, TV, live and streaming plays can't reach you. It sits unidentified until it is claimed, or is shared out to others.

Performers

When a recording you are on is broadcast or played in public, performers are owed a share (neighbouring rights). It is paid through performers' societies, and registering is how it finds you.

Producers and publishers

Master owners collect their share of the same plays through producers' societies. Publishers collect the publisher share of the songs through the authors' society. Both collect through a society membership.

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