Warner Music France boss Alain Veille elected President of SNEP, as Bertrand Burgalat steps down after six years

Alain Veille, President of Warner Music France, has been elected President of SNEP, the physique that represents France’s recorded music business.

He succeeds Bertrand Burgalat, who had held the place since 2020.

SNEP mentioned its Board of Administrators elected Veille, and that the group now represents greater than 250 members, from main corporations to unbiased labels.

The group set out priorities for the brand new mandate beneath Veille.

The primary is the protection of mental property and human creativity as synthetic intelligence develops, which SNEP mentioned ought to embody placing into impact the invoice tabled by Senator Laure Darcos on using works by AI techniques.

The others are strengthening the paid subscription streaming mannequin in France, stopping the manipulation of streams and charts, and defending the variety of French music manufacturing and its attain each at house and internationally.

“IN THE YEARS AHEAD, OUR RESPONSIBILITY WILL BE TO ENSURE THAT THE VOICE OF THE RECORDING INDUSTRY IS HEARD IN THE MAJOR DECISIONS AFFECTING OUR PROFESSION.”

ALAIN VEILLE

“Music stays an business wherein innovation, risk-taking and funding are intently intertwined,” mentioned Veille. “Within the years forward, our duty will probably be to make sure that the voice of the recording business is heard within the main choices affecting our career, whereas persevering with to defend what makes music so wealthy: the variety of artists, repertoires and enterprise fashions.

“I’m additionally totally conscious of the duty entrusted to me and intend to construct on the work of Bertrand Burgalat, whose decisive contribution to the event of Snep I want to acknowledge. We’ll proceed to advance these points with the identical stage of dedication in our engagement with each French and European public authorities.”

The Darcos invoice would write a presumption into the French Mental Property Code that AI suppliers have used copyrighted works, leaving these corporations to show that they haven’t.

It was adopted unanimously by the French Senate in April, and was adopted with out modification by the Nationwide Meeting‘s tradition committee on June 2.

Days later, 227 authors’ societies known as on the decrease home to go it, however its examination within the chamber on June 11 was blocked by the submitting of 110 amendments, most of them from Ensemble pour la République, the group chaired by Gabriel Attal. The textual content has but to return to the chamber.

Burgalat, who based the Tricatel label in 1995, was re-elected unanimously to a 3rd two-year time period as President in June 2024.

“After 14 years on the Board, two phrases as Vice-President and three consecutive phrases as President, I don’t intend to hunt a brand new place,” mentioned Burgalat. “It has been an incredible pleasure to work alongside this outstanding crew, Government Committee and Board, and I want to specific to them, and to all our members, my affection and gratitude for his or her unwavering belief and help.

“Once I joined Snep in 2009, I took the view that the considerations and pursuits of the smallest unbiased constructions and people of main corporations might converge, and that we had extra in frequent than we had causes to disagree. That has proved to be the case. Report membership at Snep, whose membership has elevated sixfold in ten years and whose representativeness now stands at 93% of the French recorded music business, along with the constructive relationships we’ve got constructed with representatives of different music professions and with the CNM, bear this out.

“The whole lot we’ve got undertaken or defended has been within the pursuits of essentially the most weak constructions and of the sector as a complete, whether or not producers, artists, musicians or creators. I’m sure that Alain Veille will probably be equally dedicated to defending the frequent good, and I’ll at all times stand alongside Snep, a corporation to which I stay deeply hooked up.”

Alexandre Lasch, Managing Director of SNEP, mentioned: “I want to prolong my warmest because of Bertrand Burgalat for his dedication all through his six years as President. Beneath his management, Snep broadened its illustration and now brings collectively greater than 250 corporations, from majors to unbiased labels.

“He has made a major contribution to strengthening Snep’s position within the main debates shaping our business. Alain Veille’s appointment opens a brand new chapter on this continuity, with the identical dedication to carry collectively a broad vary of business stakeholders and collectively symbolize the problems dealing with recorded music.”

“I want to prolong my warmest because of Bertrand Burgalat for his dedication all through his six years as President. Beneath his management, Snep broadened its illustration and now brings collectively greater than 250 corporations, from majors to unbiased labels.”

Alexandre Lasch, SNEP