After careful consideration, CMRRA has commenced legal proceedings against Entertainment One (eOne) to enforce both a prior legal settlement agreement and a mechanical licensing agreement. We have decided to take this action following years of unsuccessful negotiations, and after considering all possible options to resolve our concerns with eOne. Unfortunately, after expending significant efforts to […]

From everyone at CMRRA, we wish you a marvelous 2016 – may it be filled with successes and music!

In March 2016, CMRRA will launch a new royalty statement format as well as the new summary reports. These will be available ONLY via the new CMRRA Direct for your retrieval. Email notifications will be delivered to advise as soon as these outputs are available to you, thus providing quicker access for all clients to […]

CMRRA welcomes the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in CBC v SODRAC, released November 26, 2015 after a hearing this past March. CMRRA participated in the appeal as an intervener, reinforcing SODRAC’s position that the so-called “broadcast-incidental” copies made by television broadcasters engage the exclusive right of reproduction in the Copyright Act, are […]

There are more online services than ever before offering music in Canada today! Apple Music launched in June 2015 and Spotify just marked the first anniversary of their entry into Canada back in the fall of 2014. Additionally there has been a steady stream of new services entering the Canadian digital music market, and CMRRA […]

Many of our publisher clients already know Michael Mackie who is the Manager of Repertoire. Michael began his employment with CMRRA in the Royalties department in 1997. Before joining CMRRA, he studied English and Mass Communications, graduating from York University. After gaining experience in the Royalties department, Michael moved on to the position of Licensing […]

We are very excited to announce that CMRRA has developed a new royalty statement format which will provide greater flexibility to all of our clients, while at the same time supporting more extensive data across all areas of royalty distribution. This new statement format will provide a standard that supports all types of distributions, and […]

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 […]

CMRRA would like to give you an update on our licensing activities on behalf of our music publisher clients. As you already know, we license a wide variety of reproduction activity, including traditional mechanical reproduction, digital distribution and subscriptions, radio broadcasting (both satellite and terrestrial), and background music supply. We license music users via a […]