Cultural action: a significant decrease in the funding available for 2024
At their general meeting on 19 October 2023, ADAGP members adopted the 2024 budget for cultural activities, a decrease of more than 30% on the previous year, due to the significant reduction in private copy levies, which fund the cultural activities of French collective management organisations (CMOs).
In accordance with article L.324-17 of the Intellectual Property Code, 25% of the sums collected for private copying are used to finance programmes to support creation, the dissemination of live performances, the development of artistic and cultural education and training for artists. The other three quarters of these royalties are paid directly to authors, performers and producers.
The private copy levies collected in a given year finance the following year's cultural activities. These collections have increased in recent years, enabling ADAGP to extend its support to new projects and strengthen its assistance to structures and artists. In 2020, resources for cultural action were also used to top up by €630,000 the sectoral emergency aid funds set up during the pandemic and intended for artists.
After several years of positive growth, private copy levies fell by 9% for the first time in 2022. ADAGP was nevertheless able to renew pre-existing aid in 2023 thanks to the balance from the previous year.
Unfortunately, the drop in private copy collections will be even greater in 2023.
The credits available for cultural action in 2024 will therefore fall from €2.9 M in 2023 to €1.9 M in 2024, making a drop in support inevitable.
The main aim of the 2024 budget voted by the General Meeting is to maintain aid to structures by reducing it by 10 to 25% depending on the amount of support, even though it has unfortunately not been possible to avoid total aid cuts:
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Support between €8,000 and €40,000 → 25% reduction
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Support between €4,500 and €7,500 → 20% reduction
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Support between €3,000 and €4,000 → 15% reduction
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Support of less than €3,000 → 10% reduction
This reduction scale has been put in place so as not to destabilise the most fragile supported entities. Such reductions and even cancellations are also applied to ADAGP's own programmes.
ADAGP obviously regrets this situation, which is shared by all creative sectors and comes at a time when artists and organisations are suffering from the current economic difficulties. It hopes that this announcement will enable the beneficiaries of its cultural action to anticipate their 2024 actions accordingly.
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