CMRRA

Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency

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Coming in February 2015: CSI to launch new Claims Website for post-2012 major label products

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Later this month, CSI will launch a new Claims Website that will provide music rightsholders the ability to review the list of musical works for which royalties have been paid into a newly established trust account (“Licensing Trust”) managed by CSI and created pursuant to the 2010 settlement of a Canadian class action lawsuit dealing […]

CMRRA Is Leading the Way on Digital Licensing in Canada

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CMRRA is open for business with all online music services looking to operate in Canada. In fact, we’ve been licensing online music services in Canada for over 10 years! We continue to establish new relationships with all types of businesses that offer music online, ranging from downloads to on-demand streaming services to messaging apps. At […]

Tariffs

CMRRA acts on behalf of the owners of works in a number of different ways. In addition to issuing licences for the reproduction of musical works, CMRRA also files tariffs with the Copyright Board of Canada for certain activities in accordance with section 67(1) of the Copyright Act. These tariffs set out the royalties to […]

Online Music Services Tariff Rates

Through CSI, CMRRA has filed tariffs with the Copyright Board of Canada. These tariffs set out the royalties to be collected for different types of uses of music online. Below are some of the rates that CMRRA remits to its music publisher clients. Note: If you are represented by CMRRA then your rights are automatically […]

Supervisors

Please meet CMRRA’s Supervisory team below. Nigel Barylewicz, Assistant Manager, Repertoire and Client Services Jennifer Bird, Supervisor – Licensee Management Pamela Nichol, Supervisor – Royalty Processing and Distribution Shari Segal,  Supervisor – Online Data Exchange Return to Staff Directory

CMRRA’s New Licensing and Royalty Distribution System

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When CMRRA staff began to analyze how it could serve its music publisher clients better in this new and vast world of online music, it found its IT partner across the ocean in Ireland.  Spanish Point Technologies Ltd had already helped IMRO, the Irish Music Rights Organisation, find a solution to the growing volumes of […]

Distribution Updates

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In December 2014, CMRRA sent out the following royalties to our clients: Online; Major Labels; Independent Labels; CSI Licensing Trust (3Q2013 to 2Q2014 Sony & Universal); Broadcast Mechanicals: Commercial Radio (2012 – 2nd and final distribution), Satellite Radio (2012 – 2nd and final distribution), Pay Audio (2012 – 1st and final distribution), CBC Radio (1st […]

Happy New Year!

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CMRRA wishes you and your loved ones a fantastic New Year full of joy, successes and music!Our staff, Management and Board of Directors will be working on many exciting projects this year to help serve you even better. Keep an eye out for this newsletter to be informed of new developments.

Letter from CMRRA’s President and Chair

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TORONTO, December 10, 2014 To our valued clients, I’m writing to inform you of an important matter concerning CMRRA. We are communicating this information to you as part of our commitment to openness and transparency with our clients. CMRRA recently learned that its former Vice President of Finance and Administration and former Executive Assistant stole […]