After a lengthy legal debate with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), which has been submitted to the Copyright Board, the Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada, SODRAC is pleased to announce that it may finally begin to distribute the royalties collected for the 2008-2012 period from synchronization rights for the CBC’s […]
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Resale Right 101
By Gilles Lessard, Manager of the Visual Arts and Crafts Department The artist’s resale right is the subject of the hour in the world of copyright in visual arts and crafts, and its adoption in Canada will have a major impact for all creators of artistic works. See all we have on the Resale […]
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Artist’s Resale Right: SODRAC at the WIPO International Conference in Geneva
On April 28, 2017, SODRAC participated in the International Conference on the Artist’s Resale Right held at the headquarters of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland, ahead of the 34th session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR). Invited for the occasion, Mr. Mattiusi Iyaituk, an internationally renowned Inuit […]
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SOCAN and SODRAC Seeking Integrated Management of Music Rights in Canada
Montréal and Toronto, April 5, 2017 – SOCAN and SODRAC today announced that the two organizations are actively discussing the possibility of combining operations with the aim of creating an integrated approach to the management of both performing rights and reproduction rights of songwriters, composers and music publishers. This initiative by […]
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Visual arts and crafts: the year of the resale right?
14 March 2017 The resale right, which consists of a royalty paid to creators of visual arts and crafts when their works are resold through art market professionals, exists in more than 80 countries in the world, according to figures from the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), of which SODRAC is […]
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Broadcast Reproduction Fees: SODRAC vs SRC / CBC
13 March 2017 On June 20, SODRAC returns to the Copyright Board of Canada, as ordered by the Supreme Court of Canada in November 2015, to review the value of broadcast reproduction royalties payable by the CBC since November 2008, taking into account the principle of technological neutrality. This review was made mandatory despite the […]
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SODRAC, the first collective reproduction rights management organization to distribute royalties for musical works on YouTube in Canada!
As announced earlier in 2016, SODRAC directly entered into an agreement with YouTube for the use of the works in its repertoire in various services offered by the latter. We are pleased to announce the first distribution of these rights in Canada to our members, covering the months of December 2016 and January 2017, in […]
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Your reproduction rights in YouTube: SODRAC (already) takes care of you!
In addition its direct agreement with YouTube for the use of our repertoire in Canada, SODRAC also participates in the settlement between the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) and YouTube on US soil. For any work that YouTube US has not identified, the SODRAC repertoire will be taken into account through our partnership with The […]
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SODRAC feeds Quebec’s Stratégie numérique
In May 2016, the Government of Québec unveiled its Digital Economy Action Plan, with an investment of nearly $ 200 million over five years in fiscal and fiscal measures. This Action Plan, in conjunction with the Digital Cultural Plan launched in 2014 by the Ministry of Culture and Communications, led to the Digital Strategy proposed […]
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SODRAC’s Annual Report for 2015
We are pleased to present to you our Annual Report, in which you’ll find details of our actions and a summary of our financial statements for the year 2015. SODRAC- Annual Report – 2015