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CWR for SGAE
SGAE administers performance and mechanical rights in Spain. Spain's society.
History
Founded in 1899, SGAE weathered the industry's biggest modern governance scandal: the 'Wheel' scheme of night-time TV airplay rigged to farm royalties, which led CISAC to expel it in 2019 and readmit it in 2021 after reforms — the only time CISAC has expelled a major member.
CWR at SGAE
SGAE takes CWR in the standard CISAC pattern; foreign catalogs commonly arrive through Spanish sub-publishers, built from the publisher's CWR.
Publishers deliver CWR files to SGAE directly (as members, affiliates, or sub-publishers). Like nearly every CISAC society, SGAE works in the CWR 2.1 / 2.2 era — the versions in production use worldwide since the standard displaced the proprietary registration formats of the 1990s. Per-society delivery profiles do change, so confirm the current version and any local quirks before a first delivery.
Related societies
Two free checks for your CWR file. Is the file correct? Every record, share and control total against the spec, each problem on its exact line. Do its writers match their registrations? Every writer cross-checked against public registration data, including works registered under another spelling or IPI. Nothing stored: check a file at cwrcheck.com.