August 9, 2017, TORONTO, ON — The Canadian Music Publishers Association and Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd. welcome the federal government’s consultations on how to review the work of the Copyright Board of Canada and are committed to participating fully in the consultation process. “The operation and resulting decisions of the Board are crucial […]

ole’s senior vice president of finance and administration, Chris Giansante, always harbored a love of music but it was his talent with numbers that ultimately led him to Canada’s music industry. “I’ve always been a huge music fan but despite an aspiration, I knew I wasn’t cut out to be a rock star,” he said. […]

May 16, 2017 Subject: CMRRA Acquisition by SoundExchange To CMRRA’s Valued Clients: Yesterday SoundExchange announced its acquisition of CMRRA and its plan to team up to create an organization that has the potential to offer incredible opportunities to the entire music industry. This marks a very important milestone in CMRRA’s history and I’m delighted to […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., and TORONTO – May 15, 2017 – SoundExchange today announced that it has acquired the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd. (CMRRA), a music licensing collective representing the vast majority of songs recorded, sold and broadcast in Canada on behalf of music publishers. The move is a dramatic development for the global music […]

In the early 80s, a 22-year-old Kathryn King beat out 200 applicants for a coveted part-time role typing index cards at Chappell Music (now Warner/Chappell Music Canada) in Toronto. Armed with a resumé that included composition and songwriting, singing, guitar, mandolin and keyboard playing, not to mention an unwavering passion for music, it was an […]

As you are aware, CMRRA partnered with Spanish Point Technologies to design and build CMRRA’s new cloud based Licensing and Royalty Distribution System (LDS) using the latest Microsoft technologies.  Today, this new system is benefitting our music publisher clients who are seeing increased royalty distributions as a result of our expanded matching capabilities. One of […]

As announced last year, CMRRA is able to collect your YouTube royalties for the territory of Canada. We are collecting royalties on YouTube advertising revenue on their existing Canadian platform, as well as on subscription revenues on any subscription services they bring to Canada (including YouTube Red). This NEW agreement also covers YouTube’s Electronic Sell […]

Group III Claims Period begins on April 3rd, 2017. Details here.

A new year almost always brings a sense of hope and promise and this couldn’t be more true for CMRRA Board Director and Montreal-based Bloc-Notes Music Publishing founder, Diane Pinet. “A lot of things are going to change in our industry this year,” she said. “We’re a little bit on the down curve right now but […]

As you are aware, we have developed a claims website that provides rights owners the ability to review unmatched tracks, unidentified works and undistributed major label royalties associated with those works, and to make claims online via a secure web portal. Where the ownership of a musical work remains unidentified 150 days after the Canadian release […]