This month’s In House article features Eric Cohen, CMRRA’s Quebec market liaison on the Communications and Industry Relations team. Learn more about Eric’s impressive history in the music industry and his passion for the Quebec industry. You recently joined the Communications and Industry Relations team at CMRRA as our Quebec market liaison. Can you tell […]
In House: Douglas Nowlan
This month, we chatted with Douglas Nowlan, CMRRA’s Project Manager. Learn more about his role at CMRRA, his outlook on the music industry, and the various bands he plays in. What is your day-to-day like working as CMRRA’s Project Manager? Project Management is, by definition, managing a change. To successfully manage change you often need […]
In House: Dennis Amos
This month’s In House article features CMRRA’s Counterclaims Administrator, Dennis Amos! Dennis shared with us details about the counterclaims process, what inspired him to pursue a career in the music industry, and his proudest accomplishments. What does your day-to-day look like as a Counterclaims Administrator at CMRRA? What’s the process of resolving a counterclaim? As […]
In House: Lydia Couture-Comtois
This month we spoke with CMRRA’s Executive Assistant & Lead Office Administrator, Lydia Couture-Comtois. Lydia shared with us the parts of her job that bring her the most excitement, more on her training in paralegal studies and advice to women working in the music industry! You’ve been working at CMRRA for nearly eight years as […]
SPOTLIGHT: Sony Music Publishing Canada’s Mishelle Pack
by Tabassum Siddiqui As the world’s largest music publisher, Sony Music Publishing represents some of the world’s best songwriters and catalogues, from The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and the Rolling Stones to contemporary hitmakers like Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Olivia Rodrigo, Jay-Z and Ed Sheeran. Despite their powerful presence in the music publishing space, even […]
Music Publisher with Impact: Margaret McGuffin
by Jon Dekel By her own admission, Music Publishers Canada CEO Margaret McGuffin is a music lover not a music publisher. However, through her work as a consultant and work at CMRRA, she has built a long history of being “deeply involved in advocacy and copyright” on behalf of Canada’s music publishers. “I had the […]
CMRRA-SODRAC Inc. (CSI)
CMRRA-SODRAC Inc. (CSI) is a joint venture of the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd. (CMRRA) and the Society for Reproduction Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers in Canada (SODRAC). Prior to 2019 CSI licensed the reproduction rights in the joint repertoire of CMRRA and SODRAC to various music users, including radio stations, background music services […]
CMRRA welcomes Janet A. MacLean to leadership team
TORONTO, April 15, 2020 – The Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd. (CMRRA), a SoundExchange company, is pleased to announce that Janet A. MacLean has joined the leadership team in their Toronto headquarters as Director of Human Resources, effective immediately. “We’re tremendously excited to bring Janet to our team. Her depth of experience in the […]
In House – Lauren Ali
This month, we asked Lauren Ali, our Operations Manager, to give us a picture of where she came from and what she brings to the CMRRA team. I’ve been working in the music industry for a very long time. Over 20 years were spent in performing rights at SOCAN – in very different roles, most […]
PROFILE Jodie Ferneyhough, CCS Rights Management: Protecting the songwriters is the real job of music publishers
By Jonathan Dekel It may seem like another lifetime now, but CCS head honcho and long-serving president of Music Publishers Canada Jodie Ferneyhough wasn’t always sure there was a future in music publishing. The year was 2010 and Ferneyhough, a veteran executive of both peermusic and Universal Music Publishing as well as a co-founder of the non-profit Unison […]
