SACD, founded as Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (English: Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers) on 7 March 1829, is a French collecting society, undertaking collective rights management for authors.
[2] It's also one of the main lobbies against "droit d'auteur" (copyright) changes and to protect the activities of collective rights management societies.
[1] The idea of society protecting the rights of the authors dates back to Beaumarchais, who founded his own organization in 1777.
[3] The entire SACD repertoire currently comprises about 500,000 works, from the performing arts and the audiovisual sector.
In 2009, the SACD hosted a petition in favor of Roman Polanski, following his arrest for failure to appear in a California court for sentencing after pleading guilty to one count of statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl.