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No, there is no conflict. SOPROQ collects and distributes royalties from the public performance and reproduction of sound recordings and music videos. This is separate from the MLC mandate to collect mechanical royalties for the publishing rights associated with the musical works.

SOCAN also has an international collections business, including collections from the MLC.  You can be a client of either CMRRA or SOCAN for this purpose, but not both. If you have signed up with SOCAN for collections from the MLC or other International collections – for your reproduction rights specifically – then you should not […]

Yes, CMRRA will register song ownership information on behalf of those clients who sign up for our International Collections service for the USA, and make claims to any royalties that exist for previously unidentified songs. There is a three year timeframe within which to make claims against these royalties, after which the payout of any […]

You should only sign up for our International Collections service for territories in which you are not otherwise collecting royalties either yourself or via a sub-publisher. Please refer to section 4 of Schedule I of our affiliation agreement for further details.

Switzerland, the United Kingdom and all states within the European Economic Area which includes Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Iceland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Norway, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece. Albania, Andorra, Bosnia, Gibraltar, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, San Marino, Serbia, and […]

We are currently focused on implementing Phase 1 of our International Collections agreement with IMPEL. Expansion to Phase 2 territories will be confirmed at a later date, and is likely to follow in 2022.