Publisher User Guide
The Unclaimed Works Portal is CMRRA’s innovative matching and claiming portal for musical works rightsholders. This tool allows you to search the active repertoire of Online Music Services in Canada, in order to identify any as yet unmatched recordings, or unverified shares of matched works for claiming.
Within the CMRRA Direct Unclaimed Works Portal, you will be able to:
- Match recordings to musical works in CMRRA’s repertoire database, and
- Provide any missing ownership share information for works that you own or control.
Once your submissions have been verified, our standard quarterly invoicing processes for all current and past use of each recording will ensure that the related work ownership shares are accurately identified and appropriately invoiced and/or reported to the Online Services.
Learn more in our introductory video and review the steps to using the portal below.
Steps for Using the Unclaimed Works Portal
You must have a CMRRA Direct user account in order to access the portal. If you do not already have one, please visit the following link for information on how to register for a CMRRA Direct user account. User access approval can take up to 3 business days, depending on volume of traffic. We will contact you to confirm once your registration for CMRRA Direct services is approved.
After your user access is approved, log in to CMRRA Direct and navigate to the Unclaimed Works menu option*.
Please contact us regarding Unclaimed Works Portal-related questions.