Mikael Hedlund

SAMI

SAMI is a non-profit organisation that is dedicated to the promotion of the interests of artists and musicians. It can truly be said to be their own organisation. SAMI's main task is to administrate performers' economic rights in Sweden, based on the Swedish Copyright Act (1960:729) and corresponding legislation in other countries within the framework of the Rome Convention (1961) and principally its Article 12. With regards to composers' and song-writers' economic rights these are administrated by STIM. As a so-called "collecting society" for performers, SAMI's primary task is to collect and distribute remuneration for the secondary use of phonograms. The legal right to equitable remuneration covers not only broadcasting but also all other kinds of public use of sounds recordings, e.g. in restaurants, shops and hotels. Furthermore, SAMI also administrates the performers' rights to remuneration for the cable retransmission of phonograms and their right to remuneration to compensate the private copying of their recorded performances.