Gathered in Paris to celebrate CISAC’s centennial and discuss the future of creators’ rights, representatives of authors’ societies from around the world noted a conspicuous absence: that of the French government. Ten years after a reception at Matignon to mark the 90th anniversary of the international authors’ organization, the contrast is striking. CISAC’s centennial, celebrated yesterday in Paris, will be remembered as a new symbol of the rift between Macron’s administration and the creative world. Since Beaumarchais, France had always regarded its authors as a strategic asset. By sending no political representatives to the centennial celebration of the organization that helped develop modern collective management worldwide, the Macron administration is thus breaking with a well-established French tradition—and doing so in full view of the entire world. Person Founded in the…
