Please note that the CMRRA office will be closed from the afternoon of Dec 24, 2015 to the morning of January 4, 2016. We wish all our clients, licensees, colleagues and friends a very happy holidays season.

Earlier this year, CMRRA-SODRAC Inc. (CSI) launched a new Claims Website for unpaid royalties associated with Post-2012 major label releases. Rights holders can now make claims on musical works for which royalties have been disbursed into a newly established trust account managed by CSI (“Licensing Trust”) and created pursuant to the 2010 settlement of the […]

Most of our music publisher clients already know Sandra Nettleton, CMRRA’s Director of Licensing and Royalties. Born in Mozambique, Sandra started part-time employment with CMRRA in July 1990 while still in high school. She continued with her education while working at CMRRA and studied Business Administration at both York and Ryerson Universities. Throughout her years […]

The new CMRRA Direct is here! CMRRA Direct is a portal for our music publisher clients to provide direct and secure access to their work along with licence and royalty information in our new License and Royalty Distribution System (LDS). This client interface has been re-launched with new and enhanced features. We encourage all of […]

CMRRA held its Annual General Meeting on September 24 and Gary Furniss, President of Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada, was re-elected to the CMRRA Board of Directors and reappointed as Chairman of the Organization. We caught up with Gary to chat about the Sony/ATV roster, the current environment for publishers and songwriters in Canada, and his […]

The new CMRRA Direct is here! CMRRA is thrilled to announce the launch a new CMRRA Direct portal for our music publisher clients to provide direct, secure access to their work, licence and royalty information in our new License and Royalty Distribution System (LDS)! This client interface is being re-launched with new and enhanced features […]

*This article was published in FYI Music News on September 10, 2015 and is reproduced here with the permission of the writer, David Farrell. Robert Ott isn’t exactly a household name at home in Canada but over the past eleven years he has quietly built a global empire out of Toronto, transforming a music publishing start-up […]

Important: New CMRRA Royalty Statement Format and Reports Coming in 2016 A new electronic royalty statement format will be launched in CMRRA Direct in March 2016. This new format will provide enhanced details on payments, works metadata and sound recording metadata, and will provide a single statement format for all royalty sources processed in our […]

By Martin Melhuish (adapted from an article in Music Publisher Canada – Winter 2015 edition) Let me introduce you to Margaret McGuffin who joined the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency (CMRRA) in the newly-created executive position of Vice President, Strategy & Business Development in the fall of last year. Before joining CMRRA, Margaret was the […]

CMRRA is excited to launch its new CMRRA Direct application over the next couple of weeks! CMRRA Direct is the portal through which our clients are able to access their work, licence and royalty data, and we are re-launching this tool with new and enhanced features that will link directly to our new LDS system. […]