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 […]

Following CMRRA’s Annual General Meeting held on September 24, 2015, we are pleased to announce that the following individuals have been elected to the CMRRA Board of Directors for a 2-years term: Gary Furniss – Chair Tony Tobias – Vice Chair Vivian Barclay Pegi Cecconi Jodie Ferneyhough Craig Horton Daniel Lafrance Shawn Marino Jennifer Mitchell […]

*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 […]

CMRRA wishes to congratulate Re:Sound MLC on holding its third annual Re:Cital on September 24. It is a pleasure to have been part of this great event that raised $10,000 for the Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund. Our very own house band, made up of CMRRA staff and appropriately named Royality Cheque, along with bands […]

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 […]

This month, we sat down with Caroline Rioux and asked her some questions. Read her thoughts and comments below. Q: October will mark the two year anniversary of your appointment as President. Congratulations! What are the highlights of those first two years? A: It’s been a formidable two years for CMRRA and for me as […]

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. […]

CMRRA is thrilled to extend a warm welcome to the staff of Access Copyright following their move to our premises in late August. We’re extremely pleased to have this opportunity to share our workspace with this collective, along with CPCC and CMPA, and we’re looking forward to the new dynamic that will form from working […]