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Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency

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Unclaimed Works Portal for Online Music Services

Publisher User Guide for CMRRA Direct Thank you for your interest and participation in assisting us with your feedback in this beta version of CMRRA’s new Unclaimed Works portal. The portal contains information about recordings that are included in active repertoire of the Online Music Services doing business in Canada, and where the status of […]

Unclaimed Works Website – Terms and Conditions of Use

BY PROCEEDING TO THE UNCLAIMED WORKS PORTAL, YOU HAVE WAIVED CERTAIN LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO SUE CMRRA AND ITS LICENSEES. 1.        Acceptance of Terms and Conditions, Release, and Arbitration Agreement 1.1.        This is a Legal Agreement. These Terms and Conditions of Use and Arbitration Agreement (the “Terms […]

Online Music Services Claims Verification Process

Upon receipt of your claim(s) for any musical works, CMRRA shall undertake to review the details of such claim(s) prior to updating its records. In doing so, CMRRA reserves the right to contact you and/or any third parties deemed, in CMRRA’s sole discretion, to be necessary for verification of your claim(s). Additional documentation, including, but […]

Online Music Services Affiliation

CMRRA is pleased to act as your agent for the licensing and collection of royalties from Online Music Services operating in Canada. Please follow the following link to begin the affiliation process or contact CMRRA Membership Services at 416-926-1966. If we don’t hear from you, a CMRRA Membership Services representative will be in touch within […]

An interview with Mark Jowett

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When Canadian Publishers Committee (CPC) member and Vancouver-based Nettwerk Music Group co-founder Mark Jowett reflects on his journey to music publishing, a single theme emerges: gratitude. Thanks to an incredible business partnership formed in the early 80s with three friends, Jowett finds true joy walking into his office each day to work with some of […]

Building Relationships for Success

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As Canada’s music industry adapts to the realities of doing business in the digital era, CMRRA has forged ahead by securing some of the strongest rates globally through direct licencing deals with online music services. CMRRA Vice-President of Legal and Business Affairs, Veronica Syrtash, leads the collective’s recently-bolstered Business Affairs team, including its negotiations with […]

CMRRA Direct News

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CMRRA Web Services Publisher Requirements Workshops Technological evolution is essential to the success of any business. For some industries this simply means ‘out with the old and in with the new’; but in our industry, it means successfully maintaining a delicate balance of the old and the new. Just as music publishers must exploit back […]

Executive Q&A with CMRRA President Caroline Rioux

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In a few weeks, SoundExchange will celebrate the one-year anniversary of its purchase of the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd. (CMRRA). The acquisition represents a major opportunity for SoundExchange to diversify lines of business and offer services to the music publishing community, in addition to our work collecting and distributing digital sound recording performance […]

An Interview with Michael Abitbol

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Native New Yorker and Senior Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs of Digital at Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Michael Abitbol, has more in common with Canadians than one might think. First, he’s an avid ice hockey fan who has visited many hockey-related destinations in Canada. Second, he’s armed with a track record of fighting for […]