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European Composer and Songwriter Alliance

European Composer and Songwriter Alliance
Abbreviation ECSA
Formation 7 March 2007 (2007-03-07)
Headquarters Brussels, Belgium
Key people
Alfons Karabuda (President)
Patrick Ager (Secretary General)
Website composeralliance.org

The European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA) is an international, nonprofit organization. It is made up of 45 associations of composers and songwriters from all over Europe. It represents around 23,000 composers in 20 different European countries. It was founded in 2007 and is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

The company is organized by three general committees based on music genre (popular music, art & contemporary music, and film & audio-visual music) and the current president is Alfons Karabuda.

The foundation for ECSA was laid on 4 February 2006 when a group of 100 composers from over 30 European Countries met at the European Composers’ Congress at Musikverein in Vienna to sign a letter of intent in order to create a “Federation of European Composers Association”. On 7 March 2007, three associations, the Alliance of Popular Composer Organizations in Europe (APCOE), European Composers' Forum (ECF), and the Federation of Film and Audio-visual Composers of Europe (FFACE), came together in Madrid to form the European Composer and Songwriting Alliance (ECSA).

ECSA is organized into three committees based on music genre: the Alliance of Popular Music Composers of Europe (APCOE), the European Composers Forum (ECF), and the Federation of Film and Audiovisual Composers of Europe (FFACE). The ECSA board is made up of 9 members, three from each of the committees. The current president, chosen from these 9 members, is Alfons Karabuda from the APCOE committee. The ECSA office (ECSA Secretariat), located in Brussels, Belgium, is an administrative office that handles day-to-day business.

The Creators Conference is an annual European Forum that brings the members of ECSA together along with European policy makers and music industry representatives to discuss important issues and events relevant to the creators of European music, such as fair contracts, remuneration, and the EU Copyright Framework. The first conference was held in 2012 and continued during the years of 2013 and 2015. In 2012, ECSA and the Creators Conference were presented the Visit Brussels Award as International Congress 2012. The 2015 Creators Conference began on February 23 with an opening concert. The conference commenced the following day with panelists discussing fair contracts, remuneration, and EU copyright law. Speakers included composer Michael Price, MEP Julie Ward, and UN Special Rappateur in the field of cultural rights Farida Shaheed.


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